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Big Data and Health: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position at MSU
by Kayla D. Hales 24 Sep '14

24 Sep '14

Job Opening: Tenure-System Position in Big Data and Health News Date: 09/12/2014 Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position in Big Data and Health Department of Media and Information Michigan State University http://cas.msu.edu/job/posting-0098-tenure-track-assistant-professor-in-big- data-and-health-department-of-media-and-information/ The Department of Media and Information (MI) at Michigan State University (MSU) invites applications for a full-time, tenure system faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of big data with a strong interest in health, health IT, e-health, and/or m-health. We seek a scholar conducting cutting-edge social and/or technical research utilizing big data approaches-including theory-building, analytics, applications, and effects. Additional potential areas of research interest might include: mobile communications, social media, pervasive computing, predictive analytics, collective intelligence, human computation, computational social science, and network analysis. Teaching duties will include graduate and undergraduate courses on topics such as big data analytics, health IT, social network analysis, social computing, collective intelligence, human-computer interaction, and other topics related to information and communications technologies (ICTs). The successful candidate will participate in the Trifecta, an interdisciplinary joint initiative by the Colleges of Communication Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Nursing with the overarching goal of using technology to improve health outcomes and health care organization and delivery. Candidates should be able to demonstrate their potential to obtain external funding to support their scholarship and to publish peer-reviewed works in respected research outlets. Candidates are expected to be excellent teachers and mentors to graduate students. We encourage individuals from a diverse range of disciplinary and methodological traditions to apply. A PhD in a relevant discipline, such as Informatics, Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Applied Statistics, Management of Information Systems, Communication, Sociology, Economics, or other social or technical sciences with emphases on big data, should be completed prior to the start of the appointment, expected to be August 16, 2015. The MI department is a member of the iSchools consortium, and home to a dynamic, interdisciplinary faculty internationally renowned for their cutting-edge research on the uses and implications of ICTs. The doctoral program in Media and Information Studies, offered jointly by MI along with the Departments of Journalism and Advertising & Public Relations, was recently ranked #3 among Media Ph.D. programs in the U.S. by the National Research Council. Our curricula address both the theoretical and practical aspects of ICT and media use and production, and our alumni have achieved positions of prominence in academia, industry, and government. Projects involving cross-disciplinary teams are actively pursued and encouraged. Current research foci of the department include social media, human computer interaction, digital games and meaningful play, ICT for development (ICT4D), health and technology, commerce, and communication economics and policy. Our faculty also engages in creative scholarship, design traditional and interactive media experiences, and develop sociotechnical systems. To apply, please visit the Michigan State University Employment Opportunities website ( <http://web.archive.org/web/20130109144800/https:/jobs.msu.edu/> https <http://web.archive.org/web/20130109144800/https:/jobs.msu.edu/> :// <http://web.archive.org/web/20130109144800/https:/jobs.msu.edu/> jobs <http://web.archive.org/web/20130109144800/https:/jobs.msu.edu/> . <http://web.archive.org/web/20130109144800/https:/jobs.msu.edu/> msu <http://web.archive.org/web/20130109144800/https:/jobs.msu.edu/> . <http://web.archive.org/web/20130109144800/https:/jobs.msu.edu/> edu), refer to Posting #0098, and complete an electronic submission. Applicants should submit the following materials electronically: (1) a cover letter indicating the position you are interested in and summarizing your qualifications for it, (2) a current vita, (3) if appropriate, the URL to an existing individual or collaborative website that conveys your current scholarship, and (4) the names and contact information for three individuals willing to serve as your recommenders to the search committee. Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2014, and continue until the position is filled. Please direct any questions to Dr. Steve Wildman, Search Committee Chair, Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University, at swildman(a)msu.edu. MSU is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. MSU is committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity. The university actively encourages applications and/or nominations of women, persons of color, veterans and persons with disabilities.

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Job: Two Faculty Positions at the NYU Game Center
by Clara Fernandez-Vara 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

Here's the full posting: *New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts’ Game Design Department seeks to fill two full-time** faculty positions** for the 2015-2016 academic year.* Experienced faculty applicants or seasoned professionals will be considered for Associate Arts Professor track or Assistant Arts Professor track depending on qualifications and interests. Join the NYU Game Center – a passionate community of game creators, researchers, and educators who are committed to building the world’s greatest game design program, teaching the next generation of game innovators, and contributing to the evolution of games as a cultural form and game design as creative practice. *Qualifications:* We are seeking applicants with experience in one or more of the following domains: game design, game development, game scholarship, and/or game education. As part of Tisch School of the Arts, Game Center faculty are expected to combine teaching with an active, ongoing professional practice and/or research in the world of games. We are looking for candidates who are active participants in the field, doing original and innovative work as creators and/or scholars, and who are able to draw on their professional experience to create a compelling and effective learning environment. Whether you are an industry veteran with triple-A experience who wants a chance to share your knowledge of the complex craft of game development, an independent developer exploring the experimental edge of game aesthetics, or a critical theorist asking questions about the fundamental nature and cultural context of games and play, we want to talk to you about joining the NYU Game Center. Previous teaching experience is not a requirement, but it is a strong plus. *Duties:* Duties include teaching five courses a year, student advisement, and participation in departmental and school-wide committees. On-going professional work while teaching is expected. Salary, to be negotiated, includes an excellent benefits package. *Deadline:* Applicants must provide a cover letter, full C.V. and three letters of recommendation. All materials must be submitted by December 1, 2014. Finalists will be asked to submit creative work. Apply online here: http://www.nyuopsearch.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=52 200 NYU encourages applications from women and minorities.

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Code for America Summit free webcast details - starts today
by Steven Clift 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

Code for America Summit’s live _webcast_ on open government and civic technology starts today and goes for the next three days. Times below. http://bit.ly/cfasummit2014 During the event, catch the buzz on Facebook via #cfasummit or on the Open Gov Facebook Group (now 2000+ members) - http://bit.ly/opengovfacebook - and open topic: http://bit.ly/cfasummitfacebook Or via Twitter: http://bit.ly/cfasummittwitter They will live webcast all but one of their main stage speeches during waking hours from the Americas to East Asia and the Australia/New Zealand. Webcast time zones converted (starts 2:30 pm Pacific time, Tue Sept 23 then 1:30 pm day two and three): http://bit.ly/cfawebcastday1worldtime http://bit.ly/cfawebcastday2worldtime http://bit.ly/cfawebcastday3worldtime Today, that's a start at … (one hour earlier day two and three) 10:30 pm London 6:30 pm Rio and Santiago 5:30 pm Eastern US 4:30 p.m. Mexico City, Minneapolis 2:30 p.m. Pacific US (Local Time) 11:30 am Hawaii 9:30 am New Zealand 7:30 am Sydney 6:30 am Tokyo and Seoul 5:30 am Hong Kong, KL Today's webcast lasts 3.5 hours and 4 hours the next two days.

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New anthology: Everyday Feminist Research Praxis
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

Apologies for cross-posting dear colleagues. I'm excited to announce the publication of the following anthology edited by Domitilla Olivieri (Utrecht University, Netherlands) and Koen Leurs (LSE, UK) EVERYDAY FEMINIST RESEARCH PRAXIS. Doing Gender in the Netherlands Everyday Feminist Research Praxis: Doing Gender in The Netherlands offers a selection of previously unpublished work presented during the 2011, 2012 and 2013 Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG) conferences. Reflecting the wide spectrum of interdisciplinary gender studies, this volume is organised into four sections along four conceptual knots. These thematic entry-points are space/time, affectivity, public/private, and technological mediation. The central emphasis of this volume is twofold: first, the everyday is approached as a concretely grounded site of micro-political power struggles. Second, the contributors make explicit connections between theory and their everyday feminist research practices. They provide a reflexive account of their research, and put into words what drives them. The relation between theory and practice has been a key concern of feminist research in recent decades. The two domains are here not considered as oppositional, but rather contributors chart their interconnections and entanglements. The authors cover a wide topical area that includes, amongst others, digital representations of women movements; European homonationalism; fashion modelling and labour; sexual identities; child-birthing discourses; digital documentaries; fan fiction; and the post-human. As a whole, the interventions show how feminist research praxis remains crucial in critically disentangling naturalized routines of daily life, which in turn enables the scrutiny of, for example, the arbitrariness of entrenched power relations and the revealing of contradictory and layered, personal and collective, everyday trajectories. Everyday feminist research praxis, thus, energises possibilities for new forms of recognition, representation and redistribution of power. HARDBACK ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-6011-6 ISBN-10: 1-4438-6011-5 Date of Publication: 01/08/2014 MORE INFORMATION: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/everyday-feminist-research-praxis SAMPLE CHAPTER: INTRODUCTION AVAILABLE FOR FREE IN PDF FORMAT: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/61775 REVIEWS: “A significant contribution to the field, this rich interdisciplinary collection shows the timely importance of feminist scholarship today. It provides the exhilarating scope, theoretical vigor and state-of-the-art scholarship I connect with feminist scholars that traverse Dutch Gender Studies. The overall result provides original takes on topics at the core of present feminist debates – from which scholars and students in many interdisciplinary humanities and social science disciplines will learn immensely. There is of course a risk in reading it; nothing about your everyday life will ever appear mundane again.” —Cecilia Åsberg, Associate Professor of Gender Studies (Tema Genus), Linköping University; Founding Director, The Posthumanities Hub; Co-Director, GEXcel International Collegium “This lively volume will come as a breath of fresh air to readers of many different feminist persuasions in many different parts of the world. Rigorously non-universalizing, the authors revel in the irreducible diversity of the micro politics of gender at sites that range from transnational library projects to online porn sites, from Mandarin-speaking mothers in the Netherlands to a struggle over gay marriage that leaves the nominative “Europe” in a legal shambles. Modeling rich intergenerational as well as transnational and interdisciplinary intra-actions, the essays evoke a universe of new possibilities for feminist exploration. The conversation among pioneering feminist scholars of my own generation that comprises the Epilogue moved me deeply and gives all that comes before it an astonishing depth of field.” —Prof. Marguerite Waller, Chair, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside TABLE OF CONTENTS: SECTION I: NEGOTIATING SPACE-TIME Preface section 1: Negotiating Space-Time Louis van den Hengel 1. Webs of Feminist Knowledge Online: Representations of the Women’s Movement in Digital Documents and Monuments Sanne Koevoets 2. What is European about Homonationalism: Thinking Through the Italian Case Gianmaria Colpani and Adriano José Habed 3. Irigarayan Insights on the Problem of LGBT Inequality: How Re-Imagining Difference can Facilitate Respect for Others Louise Richardson-Self 4. Performing (Readings of) Moving Across as Decolonial Praxis Heather Hermant SECTION II: THE MATTER OF AFFECT Preface section II: The Matter of Affect Iris van der Tuin 5. Tracing the Roots of the Fashion Image: Fashion Models as Fashion Workers, Immaterial Production and Affective Transmission Eline van Uden 6. “I Didn’t Know That I Do Not Know”: Writing the Feminine in Anne Enright’s What Are You Like Mariëlle Smith 7. Intimate Encounters in Fuses and One Night Stand Sara Jansen 8. When the Personal Meets the Theoretical: Reflections on My Conversations With Luce Irigaray Krizia Nardini SECTION III: NEGOTIATING PRIVATE-PUBLIC Preface section III: Negotiating Private-Public Liza Mügge 9. In the Service of Modernity. The Gendered Deployment of Premarital Sexuality in the Processes of Identification Among the Iranian Dutch Rahil Roodsaz 10. Bargaining Between Husbands and Societies: The Obstacles and Difficulties of Chinese Mothers Teaching their Children Mandarin in the Netherlands Shu-Yi Huang 11. A Narrative Analysis of the Experiences of Women on Antiretroviral Therapy in the Mopani District of the Limpopo Province: Comparing Private and Public Institutions in South Africa Tiny Petunia Mona 12. Public-Private Boundaries and Gendered Codes in Limiting Institutional Childbirth in Rural Bangladesh Runa Laila SECTION IV: NEGOTIATING TECHNOLOGIES AND MEDIATIONS Preface section IV: Negotiating Technologies and Mediations Kathrin Thiele 13. In the Intervals Between ‘Now’ and ‘Then,’, ‘Here’ and ‘There’: Transnational Spaces Performed and Reimagined in Digital Hybrid Documentary Domitilla Olivieri 14. Scholarship as Geek Feminism: Subverting Gender and Sexuality in Glee Fan Fiction Nicolle Lamerichs 15. “A Shock to Thought”: The Affects of an Online Encounter with Posthuman Imagery Simone van Hulst 16. Wired Fingers, Sticky Keyboards: Towards an Embodied Approach to Internet Pornography Goda Klumbytė EPILOGUE 17. A Dialogue on the Dilemmas of Feminist Research Praxis Koen Leurs, Rosemarie Buikema, Willy Jansen and Lies Wesseling Koen Leurs, PhD | Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Media and Communications London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | | Affiliated researcher Graduate Gender Studies Institute for Cultural Enquiry (ICON) Utrecht University | www.koenleurs.net <https://mail.lse.ac.uk/owa/www.koenleurs.net> http://www.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/WhosWho/AcademicStaff/Koen-Leurs.aspx Recent publications: * Leurs, K. & Olivieri, D. (Eds.), (2014). Everyday Feminist Research Praxis<http://www.cambridgescholars.com/everyday-feminist-research-praxis>. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. * Leurs, K. (2014). The politics of transnational affective capital: Digital connectivity among young Somalis stranded in Ethiopia<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=17789/>. In K. Leurs & S. Ponzanesi (Eds.). Crossings, Journal of Migration and Culture, 4 (1), p. 87-104. * Ponzanesi, S. & Leurs, K. (2014). Special issue: Digital Crossings in Europe<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2682/>. Crossings, Journal of Migration

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Call for submissions for the annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival now open! #SSMF2015
by Corrina Laughlin 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

Hello internet researchers! Submissions are open for the 3rd annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival (#SSMF2015) from now until November 10th. SSMF brings together mediamakers, artists, activists and scholars for two days of screenings and discussions at the University of Pennsylvania. We hope to gather a wide range of films, soundscapes and recordings, e-books, animation, installations and other media forms for a stimulating festival. This year’s theme is “performing the digital”. See the call for submissions attached and below. Please circulate widely! [https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/2eXjB_BFQaqHoccQYw2pIN9CL3ZZ08cAtXQuFwM-d…] THE THIRD ANNUAL SCREENING SCHOLARSHIP MEDIA FESTIVAL #SSMF2015 March 27 - 28, 2015 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA This year at the Screening Scholarship Media Festival we invite submissions from scholars, activists, artists, filmmakers, and educators that creatively explore how the social world is performed in and through digital media. Over the last few years, there has been a proliferation of scholarship that looks at media as a vehicle for performing and constituting reality, not merely representing it. With this in mind we ask: What are the ethics and politics of (re)presenting our work on screen? How do multiple lives -- digital, analog, physical -- connect and disconnect through on and offline pathways? What does it mean to be a scholar, artist, and/or educator in the digital age? What are the affordances and tensions of digital media for scholarship, activism, and pedagogy? SSMF will highlight multimodal projects during two days of screenings and discussions showcasing film, soundscapes and recordings, blogs, websites, eBooks, animation, photographs, installations, and other media forms. Online Submissions Open September 22, 2014 Deadline for Submissions is November 10 , 2014 Please visit our website <http://www.camrapenn.org> for the submission guidelines and more information about the festival. camra is also recruiting graduate students and scholars to serve as reviewers for SSMF 2015. If you are interested in serving as a peer reviewer for SSMF, please contact SSMF(a)camrapenn.org. camra asks questions about the affordances, challenges, and possibilities of multimodal scholarship in teaching, learning, mediamaking, and knowledge production. Our aim is to support media-based research and pedagogies, with an explicit focus on: (1) establishing responsive and practical guidelines for the evaluation of multimodal research and scholarship; (2) utilizing participatory, digital, and ethnographic methodologies; (3) creating supportive spaces (both digital and physical) for multimodal work to be showcased; (4) critically examining how technology is changing the processes, relationships and products related to teaching and learning.

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Seeking ICA panelists for Comm. History panel on technological reuse
by Meryl Alper 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

Hello all, Caroline Jack (a Ph.D. student in communication at Cornell) and I are putting together an International Communication Association (ICA) conference panel for the Communication History division on historical cases of technological reuse, revisioning, and repurposing, and are looking for fellow panelists with a diverse range of backgrounds and perspectives. Panel Description: "Use and reuse factor into the development and deployment of communication technologies among individuals, groups, and organizations across history in non-linear and unexpected ways. This panel focuses attention on historical cases and themes of reuse, revision and repurposing in areas including (but not limited to) devices, software, practices and techniques." If you are interested in taking part or have any questions, please email Meryl Alper at malper [at] usc [dot] edu. Feel free to share this call for panelists with others in your network. Best, Meryl -- Meryl Alper Ph.D. Candidate in Communication Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism University of Southern California malper(a)usc.edu merylalper.com

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2015 SWPACA Conference CFP- Computer Culture Area
by natasha chuk 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

*Call for Papers: Computer Culture Area* 36th Annual Southwest Popular / American Culture Association Conference February 11-14, 2015 Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, NM www.southwestpca.org PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Saturday, November 1, 2014 Proposals for papers are now being accepted for the area of Computer Culture, as one of the many areas within the 36th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA). Please consider submitting. This year’s conference theme is: Many Faces, Many Voices: Intersecting Borders in Popular and American Culture COMPUTER is broadly defined as any computational device, whether smartphone or abacus, and any form of information technology, including the origins of concepts of interactive text which may predate computational devices as traditionally conceived. CULTURE is rooted in the concept of cultural meaning. We ask not just operational questions such as, "How do people communicate using computers?" but questions of meaning such as, "What does it mean when people communicate using computers instead of using pre-computer approaches to communication?" Along these lines, we are interested in communication as well as creative practices/applications and how computer technologies shape them. "Computer Culture" can be understood in a variety of ways: - the culture of the computer, that is, as computers interact with each other, what culture do they have of their own? - the culture around the computer, that is, (sub)cultures associated with the production, maintenance, use, and destruction of computers - the culture through the computer, that is, explicit treatment of how computer mediation influences cultural phenomena that exist or has existed in forms that did not involve computer mediation, and what these influences mean - the culture by the computer, that is, the ways in which new (sub)cultures or (sub)cultural phenomena have arisen because of computers and understandings of these given awareness of the nature and/or workings of computers Example questions associated with Computer Culture would include, but not be limited to: - What implications are there because of the powerfulness of (computer/information) technology; and are these implications beneficial, detrimental, inevitable, or avoidable? - What are the cultural origins of computers, computer/information technologies, and practices associated with them? What is the descriptive and prescriptive outlook for the conditions of those cultural forces associated with those cultural origins? - How do cultural forces (such as changes from one generation to the next, trends in education or society, or other cultural phenomena) impact (and are impacted by) computer/information technologies/market-forces, and what do these impacts (in either direction or both) mean? Paper topics might include (but are not limited to) those that address: - issues of (re)presentation through computers (website analysis and design), - methods of discourse involving computers (blogging, Twitter, social networks, viral video, live feeds), - theories focused on the relationship between computers and culture, uses of computers in particular contexts and the impacts thereof (computers and pedagogy, online literary journals, etc.), - the relationship between computers and cultural forces (such as news, politics, and terrorism), - security/privacy/fraud/surveillance and computers (online security issues, spam, scams, and hoaxes), - creative practice, web art, generative and digital art, virtual performance, - the self, the “second self,” identity formation/negotiation, anonymity - “cyberkids,” internet youth cultures - data visualization and digital geographies - hashtag thinking, communities, data organization and archives While we will consider any relevant paper, we have a preference for those that involve transferable methodological approaches. This is an interdisciplinary conference, and other conference attendees would benefit from being able to adapt your research methods to their future research. Scholars, teachers, professionals, artists, and others interested in computer culture are encouraged to participate. Graduate students are also particularly welcome with award opportunities for the best graduate papers. More information about awards can be found at http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/ Specifically, we would like to highlight the following award opportunities: - The "Computer Culture and Game Studies Award" - The "Heldrich-Dvorak Travel Fellowships" Given how papers may often fall into multiple categories, there may be other award opportunities listed at http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/ which would be appropriate for your paper. (However, each presenter may only apply for one – not including the Travel Fellowships, which can be in addition.) If you wish to form your own panel, we would be glad to facilitate your needs. This conference is a presentation opportunity. Visit http://journaldialogue.org <http://www.journaldialogue.org/> for information about the organization's new, peer-reviewed journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy. Please pass along this call to friends and colleagues. For consideration, submit 100-200 word abstracts and proposals for panels before Saturday, November 1, 2014 to the conference’s electronic submission system which can be found at: http://conference2015.southwestpca.org/

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Human Ecosystems in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with SESC and Universidade Metodista
by xDxD.vs.xDxD 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

Hi All, about the Human Ecosystems project introduced in the last mail: http://human-ecosystems.com/home/human-ecosystems-in-sao-paulo-the-real-tim… We're launching it in Sao Paulo Brazil in these days, also including an extensive workshop for researchers, artists, designers, public administrations and social entrepreneurs. Come if you are around. Get in touch if you want: we would love to share data, methods, models and practices, for mutual validation. Best, Salvatore -- *Salvatore Iaconesi* salvatore.iaconesi(a)artisopensource.net skype: xdxdVSxdxd *CEO Human Ecosystems LTD*: http://human-ecosystems.com/ *Art is Open Source*: http://www.artisopensource.net *TED Fellow 2012*: http://fellows.ted.com/profiles/salvatore-iaconesi *Eisenhower Fellow 2013*: http://www.efworld.org/ *Yale World Fellow 2014: *http://worldfellows.yale.edu/salvatore-iaconesi Contract Professor of Digital Design at La Sapienza University of Rome Professor of Digital Design at ISIA Design Florence Professor of Interaction Design at IED Istituto Europeo di Design

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CityBeat Launched today!
by Raz Schwartz 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

Hi all, Just wanted to share with you our new research project that just launched. We are very excited about it! CityBeat is an effort to study city life from real time social media data: http://thecitybeat.org/ Would love to hear your thoughts! Raz Raz Schwartz Post Doctoral Researcher, Cornell Tech<http://tech.cornell.edu/raz-schwartz/> Research Fellow, The Brown Institute for Media Innovation<http://brown.columbia.edu/> http://razschwartz.net<http://razschwartz.net/> | @razsc<https://twitter.com/razsc>

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On the aesthetics and politics of #Dronies
by Daniel Kunzelmann 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

Used for surveillance, drones hunt or kill. But could their air power also be understood as cultural capital? http://transformations-blog.com/would-you-mind-my-drone-taking-a-picture-of…

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