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By Anna Winter on January 3, 2012
“…what we see in Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring are the results of hundreds of years of evolution in human communication, ideology, and organization.”
Posted in Media, Politics | Tagged aristotle, cyborgs, ed milliband, election campaigns, internet, internet memes, personal computers, Technology, Tony Abbott |
By Kim on April 21, 2010
It was interesting on the news tonight to hear veiled suggestions from airlines that planes should be flying anyway in Europe, despite more volcanic ash being emitted by the Eyjafjallajökull volcano. Also significant was the description of the volcano as [...]
Posted in Climate change, Disasters, Economics, Energy, Europe, Politics, Science, Sociology, Technology, Transport | Tagged air transport, airlines, Climate change, complexity, Europe, European Union, Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland, late modernity, nature, nef, new economics foundation, peak oil, resilience, risk society, Science, Sociology, sustainability, Technology, Transport, Victoria Johnson, volcano |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 28, 2009
On Line Opinion has been featuring pieces on the internet and everyday life throughout August. My contribution, published today, examines some questions about the social and cultural implications of new media technologies, and in the process, busts some myths about [...]
Posted in Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Education, Language, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Blogging, cultural studies, cyberculture, digital age, digital culture, digital literacy, internet, internet studies, Mark Bahnisch, New communications technologies, new media, On Line Opinion, Queensland Writers Centre, Science, social media, Sociology, Technology, web 2.0, writing |
By Kim on May 5, 2009
I’d been meaning to blog on this for such a long time. I sort of put it off, because… well, for all sorts of reasons. But I’ve been reminded of Aimee Mullins’ talk by the recent (and well deserved … [...]
Posted in Activism, Disasters, Ethics, Feminism, Film, TV, Video etc, Media, Technology, The Web, Women | Tagged Activism, Aimee Mullins, amputation, amputee, body, capabilities, design, Disability, disableism, Feminism, ideas, posthumanism, prosthetics, Technology, TED, Video, web, Webby awards, Women |
By Kim on March 24, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/lovelace.jpg" align=left It’s Ada Lovelace Day – a day dedicated to blogging about women in science and technology. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Culture, Feminism, History, Science, Technology | Tagged cultural studies, Feminism, fiction, Isaac Asimov, representation, Robot novels, Science, science fiction, Susan Calvin, Technology, Women |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 12, 2009
<img src='http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/9781408701133.jpg' align=left There’s obviously a perception in the publishing and bookselling industries that James Harkin’s Cyburbia is going to sell well – as you can barely walk into a bookstore at the moment without falling over it. The subtitle [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, History, Media, Science, Sociology, Technology, The Web | Tagged Book review, Charlie Gere, cultural studies, Culture, cybernetics, Cyburbia, digital culture, facebook, History, information theory, internet, James Harkin, Mark Zuckerberg, Marshall McLuhan, N. Katherine Hayles, Norbert Weiner, social media, social network theory, social networking, Sociology, Technology, web |
By Guest Poster on January 27, 2009
In the 2005 “dramatic documentary” The American Ruling Class, big oil heir turned Harper’s editor turned armchair socialist Lewis Lapham narrates the career choices confronting a group of shiny young Yale graduates. With their future at the crossroads, Lapham asks, [...]
Posted in Activism, Ethics, Policy, Sociology, Technology, USA | Tagged Alain touraine, class, Ethics, Lewis Lapham, neo-liberalism, Obama administration, Obama staffers, Politics, public service, social change, social movements, Sociology, Technology, USA, Wall Street, welfare policy, West Wing |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 6, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/3004965364_03e56ac41f.jpg" Image of spontaneous street celebrations in Harlem courtesy of matt semel at flickr – reproduced under a Creative Commons licence. No doubt one of the big stories about the US election will be the influence of the blogosphere [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Elections, Foreign Elections, Media, Polls, Sociology, Technology, USA | Tagged Activism, Blogging, blogosphere, citizen journalism, Media, netroots, online media, participatory democracy, political blogging, political sociology, psephology, punditariat, Sociology, sociology of media, Technology, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
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