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Meta-Blogging
One of the conversations Georgetown CCTers, myself included, are going to be taking part in this Saturday at the Eastern Communication Association conference concerns the blogosphere as a space for knowledge production as we move further into the 21st Century. Of course, for me, as someone who has been blogging consistently since I was sixteen years old, this question almost seems absurd. To me it seems obvious not only that blogs can be spaces for knowledge production but that they already are. They fill this rol
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New Theories of Liberation?
In my previous blog post I introduced some of the ideas I’m throwing around in anticipation of my thesis next year. Broadly I want to think about remix culture as it’s emerged in the last half century and whether it holds any sort of liberative potential.
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The Great Leap Backward
The revolution will most certainly not take place on the iPad. Apple, the hardware, software and electronics mainstream-cum-alternative brand, has bestowed upon the masses yet another spectacle of the box from on high. The iPad, a tablet computer, represents perhaps the most advanced form of media convergence available as a consumer electronic device. The question isn’t what it can do, but what it can’t do. Internet, email, photos, videos, music, books, magazines, newspapers, and although the iPad is not designed to replace a cellphone, <
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