praxis
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Read More: I am having digi-fun writing “The Me & the WE”What’s great about the job (when you’re lucky), is that you have to write something (an adaptation of my MP:me Manifesto and the “talk” I gave about it a few…
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Read More: Life Off-Line: Hungary
I’ve just returned from a holiday in Eastern Europe, where access to the internet was made complicated not for reasons technological (fully post-Soviet, they’re completely wired) but familial. There was…
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Read More: AIDS/Art/Work and Archive
I just returned from New York where I spent 48 hours visiting old haunts, seeing old friends, watching videos of my past ways, talking about the lost and now of…
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Read More: YouTube Specificity/HistoryMy previous two posts point towards a new phase in my blogging, my digital life, where I’m beginning to find my niche, locate my cohort, engage in “conversations,” make new…
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Read More: Here’s Him & Him? & Her? (happy to meet you): Talking Blog-Montage“For better or worse, we can expect YouTube and online amateur video to become a common tool for the 25% of American women who have been sexually assaulted.” Dr. Strangelove,…
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Read More: I’m Glad I Found Her: On Loving the Blogosphere“And the next time someone quotes the Cult of the Amateur to you, about how social media is ruining culture, nod wisely and agree: user generated content is user generated…
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Read More: YouTube Writing
I’ve spent the first half of my sabbatical attempting to “write up” the findings of my course, Learning from YouTube. Given that the heart of the experiment of the course…
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Read More: DigiNative Wanne(May)be(Not)
In Diana Kimball’s recent post on her experience at ROFLCon, about being at a conference on and inhabited by “digital natives” she notes: “But when you’re at a conference about…
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Read More: On “Art of the Videoblog,” by Michael NewmanI just read Zigzagger‘s (check this out, he’s the guy who taught me how to make these very links to other web sites on my blog!) article on “ze frank…
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Read More: Towards A YouTube Ethics
I recently read on Thinking at the Interface about grad students at Iowa putting videos on YouTube about their working conditions. Then—no surprise—the English Department chair called the “director of…