During the conference called Doors of Perception, held back in 2002 in Amsterdam, prof. Philip Tabor elaborated on the relations between creative thinking, virtuality and space. Although it focuses on architecture specifically, it applies well on contemporary new media technologies. Here’s one of the paragraphs that struck me: We build up this semi-random cloud of [...]

(This article was cross-posted on the Masters of Media blog). Here’s the final version of my thesis (called ‘Persistence of Life-Streams – An Inquiry Into the Implications of Mixed Surveillance’) which covers the nature and implications of (participatory) surveillance in the field of social media, and specifically in life-streaming services like Twitter and Facebook. (PDF [...]

Although the book still remains (unread) in my Amazon Wishlist, Nicholas Carr‘s The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains has been thoughtfully scrutinized by assistant professor Zeynep Tufekci. Here’s one of the memorable paragraphs from the review in which Tufekci discusses (or rather contests) contemporary online pop-culture (or ‘memetics’) as the evidence [...]