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we the media
is available as a pdf download from the O’Reilly page:
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blogocracy
After an effectless search for an article on blogging, which I thought to have been reading recently on wired … drifting again .. Then finally I was lucky to come across that nice article of danah boyd,
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.. and new blog form newsgrist
.. describing themselves as:
NEWSgrist is an e-zine devoted to the politics of art and culture in the digital age; dedicated to bridging gaps between the digital and the non-technical, -
.. more news on the blogosphere
some further articles on blogging ..
This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs. Essays analyze and critique situated cases and examples drawn from weblogs and weblog communities. -
Electronic Hypertexts Are Dynamic Images
(link) .. defines K.N.Hayles insisting on media specific analysis. If so the interpretation of electronic images can be related here too -
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distortion effects – known difficulties with maps
Harpold (1999) argues that maps of the Internet similarly contain considerable, conscious and unconscious, bias and distortion:
I propose that these depictions of network activity are embedded in unacknowledged and pernicious metageographies – sign systems that organize geographical knowledge into -
the moment one starts to look .. it stares back ..
... this is not necessarily a negative paranoid setting – it can be creative as well (see Koolhaas and others).
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different degrees of invisibility
.. are going to be added. Beneath questioning social structures defined by degrees of visible representations also thoughts about cultural and educational differences in how to deal with background / foreground perception might be worth to be thought about again. It might force a general shift about the notion of ‘visibility’ as a defining fact ...
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mental leap
.. reading first here and then here again on Mitchell’s book and interview