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'infrastructure' Tag
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Helvetica: A Documentary, A History, An Anthropology
March 10, 2011I recently saw Helvetica, a documentary directed by Gary Hustwit about the typeface of the same name — it is available streaming and on DVD from Netflix, for those of you who have a subscription. As someone who studies ubiquitous socio-technological infrastructures (and Helvetica is certainly one), I know how hard it is to seriously [...]
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Does Habermas Understand the Internet? The Algorithmic Construction of the Blogo/Public Sphere
January 23, 2010This is a paper that I recently got published in gnovis, which is a peer-reviewed journal run entirely by graduate students at Georgetown’s Communication, Culture, and Technology program. It is a sneakishly Latourian intervention into the debate between Habermasians and post-Habermasians regarding the Internet as a (part of the) public sphere. They have been [...]
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Capital ‘I’ for Internet?
December 3, 2009Do you capitalize “Internet?” Some scholars from the emerging field of ‘Internet studies’ say no. I say yes.
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Working Within Wikipedia: Infrastructures of Knowing and Knowledge Production
March 30, 2009While Wikipedia does have epistemic standards, the open question is how such an epistemology can be operationalized and enforced.