Category: web2.0
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Obama’s speech in Cairo
Online political communication has travelled well since the days when a web site had a manifesto on it and pictures of cops bashing your mates at the last anti-globalisation demo! Watch Obama’s speeck on Whitehouse.gov (link) Discuss it on Facebook (link) Check Obama’s twitter feed (link) Discuss on Myspace (link) I asked him about what…
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jill/txt writing with a little help from your friends
One of the blogs I try and read regularly is by Jill Walker’s from the University of Bergen in Norway . Jill’s research is within the ‘new media’ field and in large, offers analysis of the use of popular technologies such as blogs, wikis, and other social software applications within the public sphere (a blog…
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What is technological determinism?
Technological determinism is circulated, maintained, and advanced within the pre-existing hierarchies in the world in which we live. Determinism has its own political agendas, its own rules, its own contexts and hierarchies and antagonisms to an imagined ‘other’. Determinism utilises a proprietary language and culture and although it cloaks itself in ideas of inter-disciplinary, deterministic…