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Tweetdeck, Jerusalem Syndrome and how I became an Internetist
Tahrir on Tweetdeck Past midnight. February 6, 2011: I was frustrated by the incompetence of the coverage of the Arab Spring by most American TV news networks. Tahrir square had turned into a tent city. Andy Carvin‘s twitter account was my primary news source. I had the Tweetdeck app open and Al Jazeera‘s online live feed on my browser. The [...]
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Culture, Digital
Excuse me, may I smell your e-Reader?
07.20.11 | Permalink | 5 CommentsRachael Morrison smells every book in the MoMA Library collection and records the call number, title and a description of the smell of each book in a ledger. This is part of a performance titled plainly Smelling The Books. The performance romanticizes the book: the physical artifact. When I first read about this, it seemed [...]
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Culture, Digital
The Memes are Spreading
Internet memes are inherently silly. That does not mean we can’t learn from them. Regardless of their content, Internet memes are spreading far and fast with no advertising budget. They are leading people to land television deals, interviews, book deals, and revived music careers among other things. Sounds pretty nice, huh? We tried to break down why this is happening.
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Culture, Thinking
Bieber fever and amorphous communities
08.02.10 | Permalink | 8 CommentsJustin Bieber is all set to write a book, play himself in a 3-D movie and rule the charts for (hopefully) a couple of years – and he knows how to escape on a segway. Teenage heartthrobs and the associated mass hysteria are not new phenomena. This Beatles video speaks for itself. I am in [...]
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