“While events are essential for individuals, societies and media, they are not the sweet hearts of media scholars. Events are like ill-behaved teenagers: they are hard to fit in any rigid system of thought. Many events are idiosyncratic, contour-less and quite resistant to typification, while others are too often repeated to attract scholarly attention.” […]
“Certainly, in popular discourse, terms like cyber-activism, online activism, and digital activism are used to mean so many different things that they lose their specific meaning. In this way, they can be used conveniently by critics and proponents alike for whatever purposes they want them to serve.” The following is a draft of an essay, eventually […]
“Could it be that while ‘game’ itself was rooted in communion and enjoyment, the excess of the suffix ‘ing’, makes it border a little too on the risqué? Could it be that ‘gaming‘ is thus essentially subversive, connected ontically as it is to the dangerous wastefulness of gambling, and uncontainable as it is in its […]
“The web is full of beatific images of laptops sitting on heavenly clouds. The rhetoric of the data cloud likes to exploit the peaceful, inconsequential parts of the tradition while suppressing the rest. ‘The cloud’ is a huge PR achievement for the IT industry, but it is profoundly deceptive.” The following is a draft of an […]
“…the presumption of increased agency with personalization often neglects the ways in which personalized practices and ideologies are nonetheless vulnerable to institutional uses (i.e. governmental and corporate). These institutions, in turn, promote an ideology of personalization entirely compatible with the economic and cultural values of late-capitalism.” The following is a draft of an essay, eventually for […]