Media, Technology & Culture podcast: new episodes on infrastructure and embodiment

I’m somewhat falling behind with the updates on the good ole blog here, but another couple of episodes have been published in my podcast series Media, Technology & Culture. Episode 6 explores infrastructure, focusing in particular on the internet as a vast, dispersed infrastructures on which various media technologies, including nonhuman objects, depend. Episode 7 explores … Continue Reading

Academia in a digital/networked world: a Guardian HE Network ‘live chat’

Along with my colleagues Sophie Hope and Lorraine Lim – with whom I am co-organising a postgraduate workshop series – I have been invited to partake in a ‘Live Chat’ hosted by the Guardian Higher Education Network. That chat, which takes place on 3 June 2011, addresses the topic ‘Breaching the digital divide: How could … Continue Reading

The political geography of web censorship desire

An interesting move by Google. No doubt still singed from its adventure in mainland China, the search engine has created a new tool that maps countries whose government has requested or taken legal action to remove content from either YouTube or Google search results, or otherwise have asked for details about its users. For removal … Continue Reading

Visualizing cyberscapes

Caught wind of a really interesting new blog called Floating Sheep. As many will be aware, more and more of the data we see emerging through the Internet is geo-coded, that is, it is associated to a particular location on the earth (for example, by longitude and latitude). And, increasingly this data is user created. … Continue Reading