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Apr 23
On Bricolage: Assembling Culture with Whatever Comes to Hand by Anne-Marie Boisvert, translated by Timothy Barnard
ideas in the mix : on bricolageView this article in flash requires flash 6 >http://www.horizonzero.caRetrieved from: http://www.horizonzero.ca/textsite/remix.php?tlang=0&is=8&file=4On BricolageAssembling Culture with Whatever Comes to Handby Anne-Marie Boisvert, translated by Timothy Barnard It is significant that we speak about a remix “culture”, for it is much more than a mere musical movement. Naturally it includes cultural products …
Apr 17
Here Comes Everybody
Shirky (2008), “By making it easier for groups to self-assemble and for individuals to contribute to group effort without requiring formal management (and its attendant overhead), these tools have radically altered the old limits on the size, sophistication, and scope of unsupervised effort (the limits that created the institutional dilemma in the first place)” (p. …
Apr 17
Media interactivity is power
Nakamura (2008), “It is widely accepted notion that media interactivity is power. If this is true, then scholars and institutions wishing to create an equal and fair society have an interest in measuring types and degrees of digital interactivity as it is distributed among different social groups. We must create nuanced terms and concepts for …
Apr 17
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
http://homes.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You …
Apr 15
researcher.participant._________________
How do we reconfigure these in our own anti-oppressive research?
Apr 10
The Project
What is your entry point? What do you want to achieve through this project? (remember this is a work in progress) What is your personal agenda? How are you personally connected to this project? What is your desires, motivation, etc.? What is your social location in terms of the project – how does that impact …