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The Blog as Dissertation Literature Review?
(See Updates at the end of the post. See also this subsequent post) Abstract Can a certain type of academic blogging be a more adequate form of literature review than the traditional chapter in a...
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“Socialist” Software
A case can be made that Social Software contributes to the commodification of knowledge and social interactions, or that it is simply a way for companies to make money off your labor/data. But as we...
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Technology Without Ends: A Critique of Technocracy as a Threat to Being
“…we are potentially most ignorant of the impact of technology at the very time when we are most assured that we understand it.” T.J. Rivers (1993, p. 20) Although a lot is said about the endless...
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Social Media and the Networked Public Sphere
Can social media increase and improve civic participation? If so, in what ways? There’s a lot being said and written about the subject these days, but it is difficult to get a clear overview of the...
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Spectacular Feast: Social Media and Ultimate Consumerism
I was reading Anti-Oedipus, minding my own business, when I came across this marvelous anthropological observation describing what the chief of a tribe does with surplus food: “The chief converts this...
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The tyranny of nodes: Towards a critique of social network theories
Networks have become a powerful metaphor to explain the social realities of our times. Everywhere we look there are attempts to explain all kinds of social formations in terms of networks: citizen...
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Here is my summary of this month’s discussion at the iDC forum. The archive of the discussion can be found here. ********************************************************** It’s time to wrap up this...
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Rebellion by Numbers
Apparently there was a revolution, and I almost missed it. This is what happened: Somebody cracked and published the encryption key that unlocks HD DVDs, allowing for the copying of the discs. The...
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Networks and the quantification of sociality
What follows is NOT intended to be a comprehensive review of the European Computing and Philosophy (ECAP) and the New Network Theory (NNT) conferences, which took place in the Netherlands this June...
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The Twitter Revolution Must Die
Have you ever heard of the Leica Revolution? No? That’s probably because folks who don’t know anything about “branding” insist on calling it the Mexican Revolution. An estimated two million people died...
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