This week there are two key readings by Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson, both of which in some way speculate on technological futures by extrapolating the affordances of current technologies. ‘Li...Read More
The readings for the coming class are all about design fiction. Everything you create is designed to participate in a potential future, so logically it stands that being able to anticipate potential...Read More
Hello all and welcome to the 2014 Summer semester for Networked Media. By now you should have all received an email to your student account informing you of how to activate your blog, so just follow...Read More
Free OS, another inversion of how we think media industries work. The Age’s (though it comes from Mashable) article does an good job of how disruptive and upside down this is. Then there is Tile...Read More
Where a potted history of the subject is offered, we touch on unresolved questions, and try to answer, or at least ruminate upon, the experience that may, or may not, have happened over these common t...Read More
Substitute ‘journalism’ for any other heritage media in this story and it is identical. The opening paragraph sums up this subject. The Guardian is doing well in the digital domain and the...Read More
Torika wondering what is meant by ‘culture‘ and ‘technology‘. Tony has some observations from the Potts and Murphy and how culture and technology now intertwined. Courtney on t...Read More
Jackie on the Manovich and the Seaman on database, narrative, and the need to define. Daniel on how database and narrative are different things. Jake happy to acknowledge confused about the reading,...Read More