Archive for the ‘Online Activism’ Category
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Independence: Media and Masculinity
04 Mar 2013
Living in exile in Greece at the moment, I watch the struggle for Scottish Independence from afar. Mainstream sources are almost universally crap - giving the British propaganda a bit of seasoning then vomiting it out through their mass channels. It is new technology that will win Independence. Because …
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The Threat of Open Content
20 Jan 2012
Its been an interesting few days in digital activism. First on Wednesday Wikipedia, Reddit and BoingBoing shut down together with very public protests from Google, Craigslist and Mozilla over the proposed SOPA and PIPA acts, this was rapidly followed by a raid on MegaUpload, a file transfer system for large …
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Physicality & Power
24 Sep 2011Over on Wired, Amber Case sets out to illuminate the brave new world of calm computing. The idea being - as Mark Weiser puts it - that it appears when when it needs to be used, and gets out of the way when it isnt, suggesting an ever present techological …
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Learning to read in a digitised world
27 Sep 2009Over on John Connell's blog there has been some discussion around the meaning of literacy in a digitised era. I have my issues with the traditional meaning of literacy, but lets plough on regardless. I just wanted to share a few anecdotes about how technology and in particular games have …
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How we will see the past in the future
26 Sep 2009I saw a really interesting bit of technology at the SLF in September - using a Sony PSP with a gocam, small matrices could be used to create augmented reality displays using a system called Second Sight. In the future, the past wont be so far away.
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Literacy in a new era
26 Sep 2009Thinking a little bit on Post Literacy and looking at what it means to be literate in todays society - one way of relating post literacy and digital literacy is to look at literacy as a property not of a person but of a social environment. That literacy is the …