With travel out of the way and just a moment to breathe before turning back to piled up work demanding my attention, I have just a few moments to reflect upon AoIR 11.0 in Göteborg. As is often the case with these sorts of activities, so much of the richness of the conference came from… Continue reading AoIR 11.0 Roundup
Month: October 2010
“Hej!” from Göteborg – AoIR 11
I'm in lovely (and cold and rainy) Göteborg, Sweden for the annual AoIR conference, 11.0 (and tweeted about as #ir11). I plan to participate in a pre-conference workshop, then I'll be presenting on Thursday on an historical revisit to Minitel - its roots, the policy dimensions surrounding it, the political context for its creation and implementation,… Continue reading “Hej!” from Göteborg – AoIR 11
[CFP] “Cyborg Subjects: Discourses on Digital Culture” Journal and Website
We are happy to announce the official launch of a new journal and community website: "Cyborg Subjects: Discourses on Digital Culture". www.cyborgsubjects.org Cyborg Subjects is a critical collective of emerging thinkers, hackers, artists, philosophers, and critical theorists from all over the world. We are live with our first pre-release of Volume #0: "What is the Cyborg… Continue reading [CFP] “Cyborg Subjects: Discourses on Digital Culture” Journal and Website
[CFP] Proposed Edited Book about “Dark Leisure”
If 'dark matter' is what is unaccounted for in the universe, and is seen to be potentially dangerous, then dark leisure is what people do that can be seen to be disturbing or troubling
Faculty position, Information Policy, Department of Information Science, Cornell University
Information Science at Cornell (www.infosci.cornell.edu) is an interdisciplinary department within the Faculty of Computing and Information Science (www.cis.cornell.edu), bringing together from across the campus those interested in studying information systems in their social, cultural, economic, historical, legal, and political contexts. We are seeking to fill a tenure-track faculty position, broadly in the area of information policy.
Assistant Professor, Digital Environments/Digital Humanities, University of Michigan
The University of Michigan's School of Information (SI) seeks an outstanding tenure-track faculty member at the Assistant Professor level to help establish a vigorous program of research and teaching in Digital Environments/Digital Humanities. New technologies and digital environments offer transformative opportunities for the humanities. At the same time, they bring unheralded challenges for accountability, authority, representation, intelligibility, and the assessment of value. Candidates for this position should have a demonstrated research record investigating topics of concern in the digital humanities. Potential areas of research include (but are not limited to) virtual collaboration in the humanities; design of interactive humanities-related media; credibility and authority of digital content; ethnography or history of digital culture; and curation of digital resources.
Some Musings on Labor in “The Culture Industry”
Theodor Adorno's primary critiques in the selections brought together in Routledge's The Culture Industry focus on what can be termed generally mass culture (or, to use the term he coined along with Horkheimer, "the culture industry"), being those artifacts which are mass-produced, reproduced, distributed - both as the means and the end to advertise, promote and consume the products. The result is that what was once the province of cultural output such as artistic expression is reduced instead to artifacts and emblems of products and commodities; this then becomes the common cultural currency. Advertising stands in for art, and cultural objects are created expressly for consumption - by necessity, as a result of their mass-production - and to generate capital.