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 [...]
Categories: anthropology,psychology,technology
Tagged: anthropology, context collapse, culture, empathy, identity, media, privacy, public, self, sociology, technology
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- July 17, 2009 – 3:45 pm
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- By Adam
danah boyd tweeted an unedited version of her talk given at the Personal Democracy Forum Conference (#pdf09) entitled “The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online” and I must say, it’s absolutely fabulous. Though her ideas might be controversial, she touches on an important reality I think many tech evangelists are scared to recognize; that class divisions [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
Tagged: class, danah boyd, facebook, myspace, politics, race, social networking, society, stratification, technology
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- June 30, 2009 – 12:56 pm
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- By Adam
Um, cool. Maybe we won’t be jacking in anytime soon, but we’re definitely seeing a blending of human and machine. These are most certainly post-human times. A neural interface system called BrainGate has moved to phase II of clinical testing. What is BrainGate? A baby aspirin-size brain sensor containing 100 electrodes, each thinner than a [...]
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Tagged: brain-computer, neurology, post-human, technology
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- June 24, 2009 – 8:01 am
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- By Adam