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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Tag Archives: wireless telegraphy
News canisters
Once upon a time, news was delivered by ship. It was a piece of cargo like any other. It took up space. It weighed something. Cape Race was a landfall beacon for ships from Europe travelling to US and Canadian … Continue reading
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Tagged cape race, ireland, materiality, newfoundland, news canisters, sneakernet, transatlantic communications cables, wireless telegraphy
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The amateur operators: notes on early adopters
The hobbyist culture around wireless telegraphy (1906-1912), at once intensely social — as it inherently involved communicating with others — and potentially isolating — as it required technical skills that could only be acquired outside of the flow of ordinary life — bears a striking resemblence to the tinkering subcultures that have attended the rise of home computing, network culture, and social media. Continue reading
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Tagged amateur radio, boy wonders, comm-620b, imap, susan douglas, wireless telegraphy
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