DMI mini-conference Day 2: Carolin Gerlitz on Mapping and Tracing Brands

Carolin Gerlitz, Made by many: Tracing and mapping consumer/brand interaction across online spaces. Respondent: Anne Helmond, University of Amsterdam. 21 January 2010. “Made by many” in the paper title refers to the way brands are increasingly shaped and expressed in performative spaced on the web by consumers along with producers. Brands are constituted by the… Read more DMI mini-conference Day 2: Carolin Gerlitz on Mapping and Tracing Brands

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DMI mini-conference Day 1: Michael Stevenson on the Archived Blogosphere

The Digital Methods Initiative is holding a three day mini-conference with workshop presenting papers and research proposals.Today I responded to Michael Stevenson’s paper on the history of the blogosphere through the eyes of EatonWeb and the Internet Archive. The following is my summary of his paper and argument followed by questions. Michael Stevenson. The archived… Read more DMI mini-conference Day 1: Michael Stevenson on the Archived Blogosphere

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Lawrence Lessig in Amsterdam on Open Content and the Ethics of Science

On 9 January 2010 on the occasion of the honorary doctorate to be conferred upon Prof. Lawrence Lessig by the University of Amsterdam I attended Lessig’s keynote speech as part of the symposium on Open Content and Academic Publishing, Dutch Internet law expert Arnoud Engelfriet has an excellent blog post in Dutch in response to… Read more Lawrence Lessig in Amsterdam on Open Content and the Ethics of Science

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On the future of new media, media ecologies and media as the death of nature

Dead Media/Live Nature On October 31st I attended the first ASCA matinee with speaker Jussi Parikka from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. His talk, titled “Dead Media/Live Nature: Media Ecologies of Animal Intensities,” focused on the transpositions of media and nature through recent art projects such as Harwood, Wright and Yokokoji’s Eco Media (Cross Talk)… Read more On the future of new media, media ecologies and media as the death of nature

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