Monthly Archives: November 2010

Exam Area III: Interaction Design for Social Media and Pervasive Computing

This post is a part of a series covering my qualifying exam research areas. Scroll to the bottom of this post for links to each area, or click here for a general description of the process. Description As devices and … Continue reading

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Exam Area II: History and Theories of Participatory Culture and Art Practice

This post is a part of a series covering my qualifying exam research areas. Scroll to the bottom of this post for links to each area, or click here for a general description of the process. Description The increasingly “device … Continue reading

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Exam Area I: New media spaces, or: Alternate Realities, Database Aesthetics, and the Poetics of Space

[This post is a part of a series covering my qualifying exam research areas. Scroll to the bottom of this post for links to each area, or click here for a general description of the process.] Description Phenomenologically speaking, our … Continue reading

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Building a database of research artifacts

This post is a part of a series covering my qualifying exam research areas. Scroll to the bottom of this post for links to each area, or click here for a general description of the process. “It is better to … Continue reading

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"For Fable III explicitly to take up questions about entitlement spending, taxation, resource…"

“For Fable III explicitly to take up questions about entitlement spending, taxation, resource management, and the long-term financial health of its fantasy nation, and then treat those questions in terms of shallow moral binaries, makes it a party to the … Continue reading

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Progress Report: Qualifying Examination

[TL;DR: it’s been a whole lot of reading. Skip down to Qualifying Exam Areas for a description of exactly what it is that I’m reading about.] In just under three weeks, I write my qualifying examination. Preparing for this ritual … Continue reading

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"To put it plainly: I am absolutely committed to breaking scholarly publishing of its dependence on…"

“To put it plainly: I am absolutely committed to breaking scholarly publishing of its dependence on gatekeeping and transforming it into a Shirkyesque publish-then-filter model. No question. But our filters can only ever be as good as our algorithms, and … Continue reading

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“Personalization holds out the tantalizing lure of transformation, remaking information…”

“Personalization holds out the tantalizing lure of transformation, remaking information into a better reflection of the self.” (465) -Tara McPherson, “Reload”

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“[While] the web may indeed foster the related sensations of volitional mobility, scan-and-search, and transformation…”

“[While] the web may indeed foster the related sensations of volitional mobility, scan-and-search, and transformation, our understanding of these modalities needs another working through in order to discern how they underwrite particular spatialities and temporalities, enabling specific selves and particular … Continue reading

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“The web’s chunking [or experiential sequencing] is spatial as much as temporal; our experience of moving…”

“The web’s chunking [or experiential sequencing] is spatial as much as temporal; our experience of moving through these chunks may seem akin to our experience of television’s flow, but this is also a boundlessness we feel we help create or … Continue reading

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