ain’t really your life, ain’t really ain’t nothing but a movie. Repeat. Ad infinitum. Was reminded today, after reading a superb review of Thomas de Zengotita’s book Mediated, of how much my life resembles a B movie.  A really, really unoriginal B movie.  Thoroughly mediated.  Thoroughly cliche. Can you think of any moment in your [...]

I came across a haunting trailer today for a documentary by (of?) Josh Harris and Ondi Timoner called We Live in Public.  According to Jason Calacanis, who wrote an excellent email-turned-blog-post about the documentary’s subject matter, “It’s a cautionary tale about the dehumanizing effects of technology, a somber topic that we all need to consider [...]

Communities of Practice and virtual learning communities: benefits, barriers and success factors by Pat Gannon-Leary, Northumbria University, UK & Elsa Fontainha, ISEG – Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. This article discusses the factors important to the development and maintenance of virtual communities of practice, or  “network[s] of individuals who share a domain of interest about [...]

An interesting article was brought to my attention via Twitter this afternoon.  Melanie McBride tweeted an article written last December that presents the complex issue of self celebration on the web through a particularly unsettling case of a Facebook group named 30 Reasons Girls Should Call It A Night where thousands of posted pictures depict [...]

There’s a great post over at Swift Kick Central covering some important issues about digital identity management. It hits on a lot of things I bring up in my senior thesis about the merging of information-systems (which I ultimately got from Joshua Meyrowitz in his book No Sense of Place) and what this might mean [...]