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« Previous Entries Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Quilting & Code
Second Life never ceases to amaze me. Not surprisingly, many of the quilters in Second Life are quilters in real life. In real life, they use fabric, batting and thread to make quilts; in SL they use code. In both media and both worlds, they are quilters. However, there are some quilters in SL who [...]
Sunday, March 30th, 2008Form and narrative
Reading Gonzalo Frasca’s article about ludology/video game theory, “Simulation versus Narrative,” really has me taking a look at how I use form and narrative in my own teaching and writing. As an undergrad art history major, I loved looking at form. I really liked artists like O’Keefe and Pollock and Rothko for their color, line [...]
Monday, March 24th, 2008Video game theory and quilting
I’ve begun reading Wolf and Perron’s “The Video Game Theory Reader.” A woman I know who does video game and film studies had high praise for the book, but I must admit that before I started reading, I was skeptical to say the least. What possible relevance could video game theory have for a study [...]
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008Amateurs vs. Experts
I like the story that Newsweek ran last week online titled “Revenge of the Experts,” how experts are reclaiming a place on the internet. The article qoutes Charlotte Beal as a proponent of expert information. “People are beginning to recognize that the world is too dangerous a place for faulty information.” Whether or not this [...]
Sunday, March 9th, 2008The Metaphor of the Wild West
I was recently reading New Media: A Critical Introduction by Martin Lister et al. and I was very intrigued by this quote from Taylor and Saarinen’s Imagologies: Media Philosophies (1994): “Entering cyberspace is the closest we can come to returning to the Wild West…the wilderness never lasts long–you had better enjoy it before it disappears.” [...]
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Web Advertising, the Future?
I found this article in the New York Times “Not Ready to Pay for TV Time, A Mexican Beer Goes Online”, which notes how the Mexican beer Pacifico is trying to use the Internet, and not TV, to make an advertising push to enter into new markets in the United States. Instead of paying for [...]
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008The Consumerization of Politics
In Convergence Culture Henry Jenkins writes that “historically critics have seen consumption as almost the polar opposite of citizenly participation…Today, consumption assume a more public and collective dimension – no longer a matter of individual choices and preferences, consumption becomes a topic of public discussion and collective deliberation; shared interests often lead to shared knowledge, [...]
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Quilters’ Collective Intelligence
I know that I was planning on posting about the quilter as humachine this week, but I came across another idea this week that is equally interesting to me. I just read Henry Jenkins’ book Convergence Culture, and one of my favorite things about Jenkins is the ease with which he summarizes and adds onto [...]
Monday, February 18th, 2008Kiki & Bubu
An interesting take on the global economic shift. http://www.monochrom.at/kiki-and-bubu/
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008CBC Podcast: Search Engine
I have been following this podcast for a while now. It is a show out of Canada called “Search Engine.” What I find most appealing about this website is that it doesn’t focus on technology objects. The focus is on the implications of new technologies. For example a previous show focused on the implications of [...]
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