Author Archives: considertheblogster
White Noise and the Mediatizing of the Present or ATTENTION: Our Non-Renewable Resource.
Just so we can avoid some confusion or jargon-induced eye-rolling right off of the bat, lets start with defining what mediatization actually means. First off, I am using the term as it is defined in media studies (appropriately enough). But … Continue reading
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Tagged attention, Don DeLillo, Mediatization, Stig Hjarvard, White Noise
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Emergence
So I just listened to an episode of Radiolab (sort of This American Life’s nerdy little cousin) on the science of Emergence and thought it was pretty pertinent to some of our in-class discussions. They seem to go over the same examples we … Continue reading
Communication, Social Networks, and Biometrics: A Digression
I am sitting in Hillman Library in a squeaky computer chair, trying to minimize my movement and reading a copy of Protocol that the library has graciously placed on reserve. I need to do this because the copy I have … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Galloway, Biometrics, Communication, Protocol, Social Networks, Technology
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