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'media' 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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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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WikiConference New York: An Open Unconference
September 7, 2009A few months ago, I had the pleasure of presenting at the first (hopefully annual) WikiConference New York, sponsored by the Wikimedia New York City chapter with assistance from Free Culture @ NYU and the Information Law Institute at NYU’s law school. I know that I am atrociously late in writing this post, but I’m [...]
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Evolving Governance and Media Use in Wikipedia: A Historical Account
January 23, 2009In an age of information overload, the history of Wikipedia’s co-evolving media use and governance model gives us a powerful lesson regarding the way in which the development of social structures and media technologies are fundamentally interrelated in the digital era.