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Announcement: Hector Postigo to give talk at MIT

Cultural Production and Social Media as Capture Platforms: How the Matrix Has You Location and Time: Comparative Media Studies (CMS) Program, MIT Cambridge, MA  E14-633. November 15th, 2012 at 5 pm.  Talk open to the public This presentation develops a theoretical framework (rooted in Science and Technology Studies) for understanding how, generally, social media’s technical […]

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Special Issue of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media

The Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media (vol. 56, issue 3, 2012) has released a special open access issue that focuses on social mediated publicness.  The issue is guest edited by danah boyd and Nancy Baym of Microsoft Research.  The editor of JOBEM is Zizi Papacharissi, one of Culture Digitally’s participants. Here is the link to […]

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Announcements: Daniel Kreiss to give talk at Cornell University and Ted Striphas to give talk at Temple University

Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama and the 2012 Elections Daniel Kreiss October 29, 4:15-5:30pm 700 Clark Hall Cornell University Update: Due to Hurricane Sandy, Daniel Kreiss’ talk has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience. Kriess tells the previously untold history of the uptake of new media in Democratic electoral campaigning from […]

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Announcement: 2 New Books, The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright (Hector Postigo) and Managing Privacy through Accountability (Postigo co-Ed.)

Hector Postigo published two books this month.  The first is based on his work on digital technologies, cultural production and user resistance to copyright management systems.   Below is the description: “The movement against restrictive digital copyright protection arose largely in response to the excesses of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998. In […]

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Culture Digitally the Podcast Episode 3: Conversations on Algorithms and Cultural Production

Hello everyone.   We have a new episode of Culture Digitally the Podcast.  It’s the third installment in a series that documents conversations among digital media scholars on issues relevant to the study of culture, digital media and technology. The discussion format is open and gives our readers the chance to hear our contributors thinking aloud.  […]

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