Last week, the interwebs were abuzz with reactions to the most recent attempt to conceptually delineate the generation-formerly-known-as-Y: the “yuccie.” A rather unpalatable term to be sure, the “yuccie” is an acronym for Young, Urban, Creatives; its Reagan-era ancestor, the yuppie, is but a specter of these self-enterprising, digitally networked, creative aspirants. Mashable contributor (and […]
When I was finishing my first book, John Durham Peters gave me some excellent advice. Paraphrasing Walter Benjamin, he said that texts are never finished. They are simply abandoned. It was exactly what I needed to hear at the moment, but it’s also something I’ve reflected on many times since then, especially as my work […]
Part 1 The Accountability Matrix (This is a follow-up piece to one we published recently on the Huff Post here) Let us begin with a modest proposal: Maybe the matrix isn’t so bad. Not long ago on Culture Digitally one of us wrote that we were immersed in a capture and conversion matrix. That series […]
During ICA’s 2015 Preconference titled “Stuart Hall and the Future of Media and Cultural Studies,”* I gave a talk exploring the intersections of Hall’s Encoding/Decoding model and the notion of affordances as used in new/emergent media studies. An edited version of the talk is below along with images from some slides, but as this is […]
I recently got a call from the CBC asking if I’ve heard about Crystal Knows and whether I’d be open to an interview. I quickly agreed. Little did they know that anyone I bump into these days will have trouble getting me to stop talking about mobile apps! At the recent ICA Mobile preconference in […]