Although I've only been on the conference "circuit" for a couple years, my favorite so far has been MSU's bi-annual Meaningful Play conference. One of the reasons (and there are many) I feel this event is so much more resonant with att ...
What an excellent project! What was the response from the community Karl? As the citizens are essentially hacking their environment, have you had any input or feedback from the LA city administration? ...
One of the unfortunate changes I've seen over the last 30 years is the decline in experiential opportunities students have at young ages. It seems as though the inability for young students to experiment with technology contributes to a suprising amo ...
This reminds me of how we often mistake digital presence for access and are so distracted by our own privilege that we consider our electric interactions with the Other to be legitimate. The most frightening aspect of this is the fruition of Debord' ...
Frustrating consumers and capitalizing on emotion and anxiety is a traditional marketing tactic used to prod less profitable consumers into purchasing more expensive products and services. I think we see a perfect example of this in the tiered packaging o ...
This sounds like a project that is long overdue. In the past, the popular interpretation of the digital divide has always seemed to be much more benign and somewhat humorous- a way to describe why grandma can't figure out how to get her pictures to p ...
I believe both of the paths you mention have actually been tread upon for some time now. When thinking of the privilege of property, the earliest examples I can think of being Garth Brooks's tirade against used compact disks or the measures taken to ...
Several years ago, I presented my case for incorporating ' zine production into the freshman composition course as a collaborative, capstone project. Additionally, this text would be digitally rendered as well as submitted to the university librar ...
As we're transitioning into these new modes of information sharing and meaning making, we're bound to commit many seemingly hypocritical offenses despite our augmented concerns about our digital behaviors. In linguistic ethics, the onus of under ...
There have been a few discussions on MediaCommons about the performative nature of academic communities and you do a nice job setting up a criteria that separates forums such as this from other, more casual platforms. Your warnings about oversaturating t ...
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