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Bruns Part Deux

Posted in October 28th, 2008

Leave your thoughts on the second half of Bruns here.

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Blogs, Wiki, Second Life . . . .

Posted in October 18th, 2008

Read Chps 1-7 of Axel Bruns’s book
Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage . Leave your comment below.

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Everything is Misc.

Posted in October 9th, 2008

In addition to working on your midterm you should read Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous. For those of you who Twitter the author can be found here. Focus on the first two chapters, and the final one as they are the most important, but you should read the whole book.
Note: We will also be meeting next [...]

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Beginning The Network

Posted in October 3rd, 2008

This Thursday we will move more explicitly to talking about Network Theory and reading texts that directly address what they see to be as the key changes brought about by networked knowledge. First up is Manuel Castells The Network Society. Read Chapters 1, 15, 16, & 19. You might want to look at a few [...]

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What This Class is About

"the technical structure of the archiving archive also determines the structure of the archivable content . . . .The archivization produces as much as it records the event." -Derrida, Archive Fever