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The Fibreculture Journal

The Fibreculture Journal
Journal News and Information New Issue: Issue 22 Trolls and the Negative Space of the Internet We have a habit (becoming a running quip), in the FCJ management group, of proclaiming that we feel we’ve turned a corner with the launch of each new issue. Speaking personally, I think I’m finally coming to terms with the fact that each issue presents a unexpected series of corners and that the act of negotiating them continually makes and remakes the journal. Each time we think we have the circuit well mapped out, documented and with all contingency accounted for, some unexpected challenge emerges. As we progress through the production of coming issues I will remind myself that in the end, the remarkable distributed effort that goes into publishing, all of it volunteered, inevitably results in a substantial contribution in the theory and analysis of media and technical cultures.

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wood Bateman, I.J. et al. 1999. The impact of measurement assumptions upon individual travel cost estimates of consumer surplus: a GIS analysis. Regional Environmental Change 1(1):24-30. The estimate of recreational value of open-access (free) sites using the travel cost method was the focus of this study. The authors used GIS analysis to determine recreational value.

Plaidoyer 2.0 Kony 2012 ? Qui n’a pas entendu parler de cette vidéo qui a d’ores et déjà fait le tour du monde et qui est officiellement devenue, le 13 mars 2012, la vidéo la plus virale de tous les temps en atteignant les 100 millions de vues en 6 jours. Cette vidéo, réalisée par l’ONG Invisible Children, est bien plus qu’un simple buzz, elle marque l’avènement d’une nouvelle ère : celle du plaidoyer 2.0. Le précèdent Human Rights Watch

Issue #7: Formalism/Post-Formalism Conjure and Collapse in the Art of Romare Bearden Bearden wanted his collages to conjure. Of course, all representational images conjure in the sense that they gather together colors and shapes to form an image of the world and in so doing call to the minds of their viewers various ideas, emotions, associations, and memories.

Proximity analysis Proximity tools can be divided into two categories depending on the type of input the tool accepts: features or rasters. The feature-based tools vary in the types of output they produce. For example, the tool outputs polygon features which can then be used as input to overlay tools. The tool creates a selection set. The raster-based Euclidean distance tools measure distances from the center of source cells to the center of destination cells. The raster-based cost-distance tools accumulate the cost of each cell traversed between sources and destinations. Les Cahiers du Numérique Journals The print edition of e-flux journal can be found at: De Appel, Amsterdam Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam CCA Andratx M HKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen

Facebook Beacon Beacon was a part of Facebook's advertisement system that sent data from external websites to Facebook, for the purpose of allowing targeted advertisements and allowing users to share their activities with their friends. Certain activities on partner sites were published to a user's News Feed. Beacon was launched on November 6, 2007 with 44 partner websites.[1] The controversial service, which became the target of a class action lawsuit, was shut down in September 2009. Native About Native Native is the journal of the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts in England. Over the next two years Native will showcase the projects that the funds support, sharing their insights and other relevant content as they explore what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to digital innovation in the arts and cultural sector.

Journal of Information Architecture Dorte Madsen Editorial: Shall We Dance? But where is the research in information architecture? (...) You may come across research involving information architecture or relevant for information architecture, but not necessarily written with a specific purpose of developing the field of information architecture, of adding to the body of knowledge about information architecture, developing concepts for information architecture, nor in general addressing the theoretical foundations of information architecture.

European Migration: 08/09/2015, Behind the News We're taking you to Europe where right now more than a hundred thousand asylum seekers are arriving each month. Here's Emma to take a closer look at this issue and some of the kids that are caught up in it. EMMA DAVIS, REPORTER: This sight is becoming very common in a lot of European countries. Tens of thousands of asylum seekers, travelling across borders, desperate for a new home. 15-year old Jehad is one of them. He used to live in Syria before he left his home behind. JEHAD: I remember my cousin, my grandmother, grandfather and all my people from my family.

CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF W.H AUDEN'S 'REFUGEE BLUES’ Put in simple terms, this is a poem about the plight of a specific group of refugees displaced and arriving in a country that is generally hostile to their situation, even if well-meaning. Written in 1939, Auden focuses on the German Jews arriving in the UK at that time, though the poem has taken in a timeless quality due to the commonality of its subject. Indeed, it is not until stanza 8 that Auden identifies his Refugees. Possibly he is trying to show the reluctance of the persecuted to identify themselves for fear of further persecution, possibly he is allowing the narrator –we assume a husband – to present the key ideas of his poem without the idea of Jewishness in some way getting in the way of a universal message.

Tutorials – Color Perception Color can only exist when three components are present: a viewer, an object, and light. Although pure white light is perceived as colorless, it actually contains all colors in the visible spectrum. When white light hits an object, it selectively blocks some colors and reflects others; only the reflected colors contribute to the viewer's perception of color. The human eye senses this spectrum using a combination of rod and cone cells for vision. Rod cells are better for low-light vision, but can only sense the intensity of light, whereas while cone cells can also discern color, they function best in bright light.

Q-Tip Fall Tree for Preschoolers Celebrate fall with this fun and easy Q-tip painted tree. Q-tip painting is great for letting young children creatively express themselves while also mixing colors and strengthening fine motor skills. Materials Needed for the Q-Tip Fall Tree Avalokiteśvara Avalokiteśvara (Sanskrit: अवलोकितेश्वर lit. "Lord who looks down") is a bodhisattva who embodies the compassion of all Buddhas. Portrayed in different cultures as either male or female, Avalokiteśvara is one of the more widely revered bodhisattvas in mainstream Mahayana Buddhism, as well as unofficially in Theravada Buddhism. The original name for this bodhisattva was Avalokitasvara.

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