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One of Bar's projects: "The Annotated City," using cellphones with day laborers to make notes that are "like graffiti on a virtual map."
| Francois Bar interestingly refers to the ways in which phones can be used in teaching and research, calling teaching our "practice"... |
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| Francois Bar is now speaking at TWT: mobile phones are increasingly powerful, making them perfect for research... |
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| Castells: "Either we embrace new forms of communication or people at the learning age will continue communicating over our dead bodies." |
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| Manuel Castells is speaking at Teaching With Technology @ USC. |
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| Patrik Svensson, director of HUMlab, is talking about the digital humanities, looking specifically at different spaces... |
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| Envisioning the Future of DIY at DIY Video Summit: to what extent is the DIY ethos part of a hegemonic force, rather than resistance to it? |
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| Juan Devis of KCET's Webstories is talking about his work with video in LA: the most recent issue is "Sustaining LA": kcet.org |
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| The 24/7 DIY Video Summit is starting - Mimi Ito is introducing the event, referencing Networked Publics and the impetus for the conference. |
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| IML staff members are setting up SL accounts - we have Mica Dumpling and Negra Demonia so far... |
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| Figuring out how to stream the 24/7 DIY Video Summit into the IML Second Life space... How compromised will the image and sound quality be? |
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| Working on the program guide of the DIY event. Alex Juhasz reports that YouTube actually isn't so good for education... Interesting... |
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| Management meeting: setting up the virtual worlds, mobile media and new pedagogies research groups... |
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| David Parry's post brought me back http://tinyurl.com/25u2cx |
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| Thinking about Twitter for my 104 class... |
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| More Vectors Residency... last day... new models of scholarly production and writing/reading practices... exhausting + exhilarating! |
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| Eduardo Navas is talking about remix as allegory, and parsing its various modes. See "Vague Terrain" soon, for his essay: vagueterrain.net/ |
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| McKenzie Wark is pondering the possibility of creating new kinds of "authoring spaces," that don't start and/or end as MS word docs... |
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| Lunenfeld asks: Can we create something akin to a media essay? Or an essay film? And can we do it without being artists? |
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| Vectors again: the participants are presenting their ideas for their projects. Lev Manovich... Then Peter Lunenfeld on surfing, Gidget, CA.. |
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