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Porter – Rhetoric in (as) a Digital Economy

Posted by justin on June 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Porter, James E. “Rhetoric in (as) a Digital Economy.” in Rhetorics and Technologies : New Directions in Writing and Communication. Ed. Stuart Selber. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010. Print. P. begins by noting that the digital economy of Web 2.0 should signal a paradigmatic shift in how we understand writing and rhetoric. Relying on Anderson’s The Long Tail and Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds, P.... Read More

Filed under Major Exam · Tagged with access, bourdieu, burke, digital commons, digital delivery, gift economy, information economy, invention, long tail, modularity, new media production, post-Fordism, postindustrialism, social production

Rajagopal and Bojin – Cons in the Panopticon: Anti-Globalization and Cyber-Piracy

Posted by justin on February 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Rajagopal, Indhu and Nis Bojin. “Cons in the Panopticon: Anti-Globalization and Cyber-Piracy.” First Monday 9.6 (2004). 2/15/2010 <http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1174/1094>. Rajagopal and Bojin argue that the internet is fast becoming a corporately controlled panopticon that regulates the social, economic, and political relationships between users and corporations. In response to the panopticonization... Read More

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New Music – 10/13/2011

Of Monsters and Men – My Head is an Animal : Such amazingly wonderful, sweet, poppy goodness from this Reykjavik-based 6 piece. I especially appreciate the omnipresent accordion and loud shout-outs that occur throughout the album. I do wish the vocals were a bit more difficult to get at . . . but I suppose [...]

New Music – 9/14/2011

The Hylozoists – L’Île de Sept Villes: This 2009 effort from Toronto based instrumental collective is based on Paul Chaisson’s book The Island Of Seven Cities. After much archaeological research trouncing about in the wayfarlands of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Chaisson argues that a Chinese presence existed in North America long before the arrival of European [...]

New Music – 8/24/2011

The Dead Trees – Whatwave : A lot of pretty nice songs for late Summer on this release. The West Coast by way of Boston quartet is signed to the German Affairs of the Heart label (who also publishes the work of one of my faves Nik Freitas). So many good LA-based bands working for [...]