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Read More: You Say You Want a Revolution?
My course with a digital-presence, Media Praxis—one that focuses upon the historical, ethical and theoretical underpinnings of revolutionary media practices while attempting to find their legacy on-line—has left me feeling…
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Read More: Tweaking Enzenberger
In his “Constituents of a Theory of the Media,” in The Consciousness Industry (1974), Hans Magnus Enzenberger describes a new media (“satellites, color television, cable relay television, casettes, videotape, videotape…
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Read More: Back to School. 2 new sites!
Sad but true. Hard to muster, yes. But I can’t fairly complain; it’s not really decent. Boo hoo. I must return to work after 8 months on sabbatical. I’ll be…
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Read More: Beyond Visibility/Learning from Ghana
I am recently returned from the OurMedia7 conference in Ghana, a loose network of international academics, activists, and professionals working in social justice/development/NGOs who have met seven times, annually, to…
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Read More: We’re Not in Kansas Anymore
I have been closely following the work of Michael Wesch, at Kansas State University, because he, like me, has been teaching a course about and also within YouTube. An anthropologist,…
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Read More: Learning from Fred
In my ongoing life as minor YouTube pundit, I’ve been asked to reflect on the phenomena that is Fred for Teacher’s College Record. Given that I had not seen the…
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Read More: SnagFilms Film Widget
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Read More: Next Week: SCALE
I actually started this blog, about exactly a year ago, on the behest of Yvonne Welbon (who’s all about social networking and indie media), the producer of my documentary, “SCALE:…
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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…




