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Museums and artists take a stand against the dominance of social media :: Unlike Us: Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives
Artists play a crucial role in visualizing power relationships and disrupting subliminal daily routines of social media usage. They are often first to deconstruct the familiar and to facilitate an alternative lens to understand and critique these media.
Eric's Archived Thoughts: Searching For Mark Pilgrim
[[ MARK IS FINE and his work is not lost. Please see the update and addendum later in the post.
Twitter Psychology — PsyBlog
Psychological research on Twitter reveals who tweets, how much, what they talk about and why.
In the last months there have been, time and again, mass demonstrations on the street, in the square, and though these are very often motivated by different political purposes, something similar happens: bodies congregate, they move and speak together, and they lay claim to a certain space as public space.
Judith Butler: Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street | eipcp.net
Social networking sites, such as Facebook, help people to shape their identities and become closer to their friends. Many different people use social networking sites to keep in touch with their friends and family.
Social Networking: Shaping Identity and Creating Intimacy - Online Conference On Networks and Communities
Blog » Blog Archive » The Internet of Things [INFOGRAPHIC]
When we think of being connected to the Internet, our minds immediately shift to our computers, phones, and most recently tablets.
Steve Jobs 1955-2011. | DARC – Digital Aesthetics Research Center
Newspapers and gadget magazines are overflowing with praise and remembrance, and there is no doubt that one of the big IT company leaders and visionaries has died.
www.arts-numeriques.info – Daily Watch » Supercomputer Predicts Revolution
A new type of software has been shown to predict revolutions by mining news reports around the world.
The end of August marked the 31st anniversary of the Gdánsk Agreement, the accord which is usually seen as having kick-started the demise of communism.
Ostalgia Trips | Blog | Frieze Publishing
Geek Revenue by Professor Simon Lindgren , Umeå University
Geek Revenue – University of Copenhagen
CreativeApplications.Net reports innovation and catalogues projects, tools and platforms relevant to the intersection of art, media and technology. Read more here. Following from Glitch Reality No1 commissioned by It’s Nice That for Nike, Glitch Reality 2 by Matthew Plummer-Fernandez and David Gardener is a new iteration of exploring physical objects in glitch form.