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Death of a Blog, Birth of a Podcast

Death of a Blog, Birth of a Podcast

By christy on October 23, 2007

Well, not quite ‘death’ but an indefinite hiatus. I’m powering down this blog for a few reasons, one of which is my desire to finish my PhD. I’ve tried for the last year and a half to do PhD writing and work and this blog, but found the mindsets are somewhat incompatable. I’ve decided therefore [...]

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Trebor Scholz’s History of the Social Web

By christy on October 9, 2007

After my post about Danah Boyd’s exploration of the history of social network sites, Trebor Scholz has developed his own. It is pretty comprehensive:
This is a cross-cultural, critical history of social life on the Internet. It captures technical, cultural, and political events that influenced the evolution of computer-assisted person-to-person communication via the net. Acknowledging the role [...]

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Transmedia Conference: Futures of Entertainment 2

By christy on October 7, 2007

Last November, the MIT Comparative Media Studies Department and Convergence Culture Consortium ran the Futures of Entertainment conference. Details of last years conference with podcasts are online. Registration for the next one, to be held on the 16-17th November at Cambridge, has opened. The event is described as follows:
The logics of convergence culture are quickly becoming ubiquitous within the media [...]

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