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Category Archives: Techno-science

What should we do with GIS?

How could one avoid being just a technical end-user and late-adopter of Geographical Information Systems – that’s geodata or spatial data in other lingo : Does anyone have truly theoretical and methodological innovations in areas such as GIS for visualization of local and of community issues, locative and mobile media applications, [...]

Book Review: Digital governance://networked societies

Digital governance://networked societies: Creating authority, community and identity in a globalized world, Hand Krause Hansen and Jens Hoff (eds.). Frederiksberg, Denmark: Samfundslitteratur Press/NORDICOM. (2006)
For readers interested in the reciprocity of new media and social change, Digital Governance://Networked Societies delivers nine lucidly framed case studies. The editors’ introduction provides an excellent survey of the salient features [...]

Urban computing, locative media and everyday life in the future city

Space and Culture readers may be interested in my recently completed PhD dissertation, A Brief History of the Future of Urban Computing and Locative Media.
From the abstract:
Following urban computing and locative media and their accompanying visions from labs, conferences and classrooms to journal publications and popular media accounts, this dissertation presents four case histories in [...]

Intervention

William Lamson (2007-2008)
via Wrong Distance
- Anne

Neuroaesthetics and the Time-Spaces of the Academy

Debates are breaking out about the emerging field of neuroaesthetics — the effort to quantify, chart, and make “scientific” our experiences of art and affect. The Times Literary Supplement has recently entered the debate with Raymond Tallis’ vociferous reply to A.S. Byatt’s call to “observe the neorones.” Tallis, it seems, is not content to [...]