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Meaningful Play 2012 Deadline Extended
by Casey O'Donnell 09 Jul '12

09 Jul '12

* Apologies for Cross Posting * Meaningful Play 2012 October 18 - 20, 2012 East Lansing, MI, USA http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu Call for Submissions DEADLINE EXTENDED to July 29, 2012 Whether designed to entertain or to achieve more "serious" purposes, games have the potential to impact players' beliefs, knowledge, attitudes, emotions, cognitive abilities, physical and mental health, and behavior. Meaningful Play 2012 is a conference about theory, research, and game design innovations, principles and practices. Meaningful Play brings scholars and industry professionals together to understand and improve upon games to entertain, inform, educate, and persuade in meaningful ways. The conference will include thought-provoking keynotes from leaders in academia and industry, peer-reviewed paper presentations, panel sessions (including academic and industry discussions), innovative workshops, roundtable discussions, and exhibitions of games and prototypes. Meaningful Play 2012 and the Journal of Gaming and Culture have partnered to bring a special issue of the journal containing top papers from the Meaningful Play 2012 conference. Top paper authors will be invited to revise their Meaningful Play paper for publication consideration in the special issue. The Journal of Games and Culture is a peer-reviewed, international journal that promotes innovative theoretical and empirical research about games and culture within interactive media. Complete details on the journal are available at: http://gac.sagepub.com/ Paper, Panel, Poster, Roundtable, Workshop, and Game Submissions are sought from both researchers and practitioners in academia and industry. Graduate and advanced undergraduate students are also encouraged to submit either jointly with an industry professional or faculty mentor or alone. Details on the conference, including the call for submissions, are available at: http://meaningfulplay.msu.edu Be sure to LIKE us on Facebook for the latest Meaningful Play program announcements (http://www.facebook.com/GamesAndMeaningfulPlay ) Please visit http://seriousgames.msu.edu/ for information on Michigan State University's new fully online graduate certificate in serious games. -- Casey O'Donnell, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media (TISM) Games for Entertainment and Learning Lab (GEL) Michigan State University http://www.caseyodonnell.org

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teaching social computing / critical social media?
by dan mcquillan 09 Jul '12

09 Jul '12

hi there in the last academic year i prototyped a 20 week course for 2nd year computing students called 'social computing'. i append below the syllabus and a link to the blog where the raw(!) slides and lecture notes can be found under a CC-by-nc-sa license. i'll also be teaching a 1st year version this year, and an MA module. i'd be interested to hear from anyone who's also teaching a social computing / critical social media course or similar, especially with ideas and/or notes to share :). the syllabus: 1. the emergence of web 2.0 2. internet infrastructure & global social media 3. seeing through social networks 4. the dark side of social networks 5. open source code, copyright & culture 6. programming & participatory culture 7. computing and crowds 8. crowdsourcing, flashmobs & crowdfunding 9. social computing & business 10. social business 11. datascapes 1: tracking, scraping & opendata 12. datascapes 2: visualisation & big data 13. liveness 14. mobile 15. civic hacking 16. civic hacking case studies 17 hackspaces & 3D printing 18 getting stuff done: agile, lean & startups 19 critical theory 20 review (pub quiz!) thanks to barry wellman for the heads up on 'Networked'. cheers dan http://www.gold.ac.uk/computing/staff/d-mcquillan/

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Re: [Air-L] Informatization?
by michael gurstein 09 Jul '12

09 Jul '12

I'm fairly sure it is an anglicization of the French "informatisation"... Which if I'm not mistaken was first used in the Nora/Minc Report L'informatisation de la société: rapport à M. le Président de la République http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapport_Nora-Minc and wikipedia even seems to have had the same thought :) Informatization - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatization - Origin of the term. The term informatisation was coined by Simon Nora and Alain Minc in their publication L'Informatisation de la société: Rapport à M. le ... M -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Halavais Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 5:41 PM To: katja.mayer(a)univie.ac.at Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Informatization? I have largely seen this term used in Japanese (in which the -ization suffix is a lot less cumbersome), and used in the sense of other developmental -izations, like "modernization," "industrialization," and "internationalization," to refer to public policy designed to encourage changes in social and economic structure. I have seen it used in other contexts--e.g., by IGOs--but always assumed for some reason it was borrowed from the Japanese. Alex On Jul 8, 2012 10:26 AM, "Katja Mayer" <katja.mayer(a)univie.ac.at> wrote: > Dear list members, > > if you hear or read "informatization", how would you contextualize > this term? > > I am asking this, because I have a rather specific idea of what > informatization entails (a rather quantitative, technocratic context, > looking for measurements of technological diffusion and impact on > labour, e-commerce and other fields...) and I would like to know more > about other approaches. > > Are there any other connotations? Maybe in french literature? (Since > the term was used in the 1978 presidential report by Nora/Minc: > L'informatisation de la societe.) > > Thanks for your assistence, > Katja > > --- > Dr. Katja Mayer > Department of Social Studies of Science > University of Vienna, Austria > http://homepage.univie.ac.at/**katja.mayer<http://homepage.univie.ac.a > t/katja.mayer> ______________________________**_________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/** > listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org<http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir .org> > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ > _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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Re: [Air-L] Technology as ideologically neutral?
by Andrew Herman 09 Jul '12

09 Jul '12

This is indeed a fascinating discussion and I like the way that Jeremy has turned the question here. J: can you explain a bit more what you mean when you hold that objects themselves have politics in themselves but necessarily ideologies in themselves? Charles: at the end of the day, would you please post all the readings that people have suggested? And let us not forget Slack and Wise, Culture and Technology: A Primer. Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Director, Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 >>> jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> 07/07/12 3:28 AM >>> I find this to be an interesting debate, though mostly the question is where the ideology actually exists. Does it exist in the object itself? relations to the object from other objects? relations to the object to semiotic systems around it? relations to socius or culture? or in the systems alone, cultures alone, socius, alone, etc. basically there is a matrix here of ideologies, contexts, objects and their axiologies operating both ontologically ala mereological constructions and epistemologies. With many blurry middle grounds. I hold that artifacts have politics in themselves, but i'm not sure that all artefacts have ideologies in themselves. The question i tend to raise and ask people to write about is... what is the politics of the toaster, because the toaster has a whole political economics and a politics, but does it have an implied ideology. Now the design of a toaster can certainly have ideological components, but the idea of a toaster may perhaps not, though granted whether the idea exists outside of the set of objects is another debate for the Platonists to take up. however... I wonder about the neutrality of the internet because as I've argued here before, that while there is no real internet beyond reference to a conceptual idea that encompasses many technologies and systems that lack what i'd all think of as a unity beyond the concept. So does it as a whole have a neutrality or an ideology? there is a certain technocratic rationality to it, and that rationality certainly has a traditionally critiqued ideology, but is that in it, or in the design of it, or in the relations of it within historic contexts? and isn't neutrality and the claim to it, an ideological claim? I've always tended to argue that the claim toward neutrality and objectivity is almost always ideological. one of my favorite authors on this technology as ideology is Paul Virilio and my second favorite is Walter Benjamin in Arcades Project. _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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Re: [Air-L] Informatization?
by Vivienne Waller 09 Jul '12

09 Jul '12

Shoshana Zuboff coined the word "informate" in her 1988 book "In the Age of the Smart Machine". Here, to informate is to translate newly automated activities into data and information for wide-ranging display - with the consequence of loss of the environmental affordances that previously assisted in the conduct of the activity. In this context, informatization is the practice of informating Regards Viv

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informatization
by Barry Wellman 08 Jul '12

08 Jul '12

I think you all have it right. "informatization" is one of the family of "zations" - often blame for the world's ills or successes -- like urbanization, industrialization, bureaucratization. You can look it up in the periodic table of utopia/dystopia - with a xlink to Creative Class. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Just published: NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman. MIT Press. http://www.amazon.com/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262017199/r… Hardbound $19; Kindle $16 http://www.amazon.ca/Networked-New-Social-Operating-System/dp/0262017199/re… _______________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 96, Issue 9
by Venessa Paech 08 Jul '12

08 Jul '12

Hello everyone, I'm a long time listee, first time poster. Be gentle with me :-) I wanted to let those of you in the Southerm Hemisphere (or looking to take a trip), know about swarm 2012: http://swarmconference.com.au/ swarm is Australia's national online community management conference, launched last year in Sydney and returning this year in Melbourne. Though the event is for online community professionals, we have a strong trans-disciplinary focus to ensure the discussion isn't dominated by marketers. It's important to us to connect practitioners with the best research in this area, and likewise, introduce those practitioners to academics who want to deepen their knowledge of front line, online community realities. Collaborative, robust exchange is central to our mission. We've assembled some fantastic contributors, including Community Manager at the Huffington Post, Justin Isaf; Global Head of Community for Yammer, Maria Ogneva; and Head of Internet Studies at Curtin University, Matthew Allen. If last year is anything to go by, discussions will be diverse and rich. We'll also be announcing the results of the inaugural survey of Australian and NZ community managers, which we hope will yield some interesting results (there's been little or no bench-marking in this part of the world around online community management to date). Earlybird tickets for the event are now on sale and I'd love to see you there if you can make it. We'll have live blogging, tweeting around #swarmconf, and expect to be able to offer post-event content for you. Keep well - and do let me know if you're planning to attend (you can email me off list). Venessa Paech Founder and Co-Chair swarm - Australia's Online Community Management Conference m: + 61 435 217 315 t: @swarmconf t: @venessapaech w: www.swarmconference.com.au a: http://brighton.academia.edu/VenessaPaech

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CfP Young researchers - "Online political participation and its critics", International symposium of the DEL/CERTOP/CNRS research network, Paris, 19-20 June 2013
by Stephanie Wojcik 08 Jul '12

08 Jul '12

> *International symposium of the DEL/CERTOP/CNRS research network* > > *"Online political participation and its critics" * > > *Paris, 19-20**June 2013*** > > *Call for papers available on the DEL website: > **http://www.certop.fr/DEL/spip.php?article2573* > Since its inception inJune 2002, at CERTOP/CNRS, under the scientific > responsibility of Gerard Loiseau, the "Electronic Democracy" network > (DEL*)* has been dedicatedto enhancing research in the field of > relationships between democratic processes and digital technologies. > In 2012, with its 150 members in more than twenty countries, DEL has > contributed to the creation of a place forinterdisciplinary > discussions through the organization of regular meetings and seminars. > In addition to the individual publications of its members, the network > has enhanced scientific cooperation among them and has beenable to > establish solid partnerships. DEL now wishes to contribute more > directly to the scientific production by organizing, ten years after > its creation, an international symposium. This meeting is aiming at > producing several publications that will allow both to summarize the > mass of research conducted so far in the field of "electronic > democracy", and to tackle new scientific issues. > > Therefore, the aim of the conference "A critical approach to online > political participation" is to confront the scientific work, from > various fields, devoted to the transformations of contemporary > political regimes possibly induced by the increasing integration of > digital technologies, especially Internet, in the various fields of > social life. Oscillating between a techno-centric enthusiasm and > skeptical social constructivism, the first analysis of the Internet's > ability to revitalize the functioning of representative government > through citizen appropriation has quickly given way to more > substantive questions. Under what conditions are citizens able to > capture digital networks in order to inform themselves, to express > preferences or political demands, to challenge institutionalized > powers or to constitute new forms of social mobilizations? > > Beyond such a teleological perspective, the increased opportunities > for information and expression generated by the development of social > networks that can disturb traditional representations and > institutional practices questions the boundaries of politics and the > role of technology in their ability to increase their degree of > elasticity. > Specifically, this conference aims to explore the digital practices of > political participation by questioning both its empirical > manifestations, and the consistency of the concepts previously used to > qualify those practices. > > The conference will be held in Paris, for two days: > §The first day (June 19, 2013) will be based on the presentation and > discussion of _young researchers_' papers, both in French or English, > coming from answers to the *call for papers available on the DEL > website: **http://www.certop.fr/DEL/spip.php?article2573* > > This first day is organized around three thematic sessions: > > 1. Theoretical and ideological debates on online political participation; > > 2. The new formats of political talk and new spaces of politicization; > > 3. New actors and reconfigurations of political power. > > For each session, four papers will be presented and discussed by a > dedicated critical reader, followed by a discussion with the public. > > > §In addition to the general assembly of the DEL network to be held in > the morning, the second day (June 20, 2013) will be devoted to two panels: > > - The first roundtable will invite French and International key > researchers in the field to debate around the following question: /Can > we analyze online political participation with the traditional > concepts used in social sciences?/ > > - The second panel will invite politicians and practitioners to react > to the following question: /is digital politics "politics as usual", > or has is changed your way of doing politics?/ > > *Scientific responsibles* > > Gérard Loiseau (loiseau(a)univ-tlse2.fr) > > Stéphanie Wojcik (stephanie.wojcik(a)u-pec.fr) > > *Scientific committee* > > Eva Anduiza (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain); Nick Anstead > (London School of Economics, UK); Frédérick Bastien (Université de > Montréal, Canada); Gersende Blanchard (Université Lille 3, France) ; > Robert Boure (Université Toulouse 3, France) ; Dominique Cardon > (Orange Labs, France) ; Stephen Coleman (Leeds University, UK); Carlos > Cunha (Lisbon University Institute, Portugal); Patrice Flichy > (Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée, France); Eric George > (Université d'Ottawa, Canada); Rachel Gibson (Manchester University, > UK); Todd Graham (University of Groningen, The Netherlands); Fabien > Granjon (Université Paris 8, France); Dimitris Gouscos (University of > Athens, Greece); Fabienne Greffet (Université de Lorraine, France); > Josiane Jouët (Université Paris 2, France); Rabia Karakaya Polat (Isik > University, Turkey); Norbert Kersting (Muenster University, Germany); > Raphaël Kies (Université du Luxembourg); Robert Krimmer (OSCE, > Poland); Gérard Loiseau (Certop/CNRS, France); Laurence Monnoyer-Smith > (Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France); Karen > Mossberger(University of Illinois at Chicago, USA); Zizi Papacharissi > (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA); Serge Proulx (Université du > Québec à Montréal, Canada) ; Jarmo Rinne (University of Helsinki, > Finland); Cristian Vaccari(Università di Bologna, Italy); Thierry > Vedel (CEVIPOF, France); Yanina Welp (University of Zurich, > Switzerland); Stéphanie Wojcik (Université Paris Est Créteil, France); > Han Woo Park (YeungNam University, South Korea), Scott Wright > (Leicester University, UK). > > *Organization* > > Romain Badouard (Université de Technologie de Compiègne); Simon Gadras > (Université de Lorraine); Fabienne Greffet (Université de Lorraine); > Ewa Krzatala-Jaworska (Université Paris 1); Gérard Loiseau//// > (Certop/CNRS); Clément Mabi (Université de Technologie de Compiègne); > Laurence Monnoyer-Smith (Université de Technologie de Compiègne); > Clémence Pène (Université Paris 8); Anaïs Théviot (Sciences Po > Bordeaux); Stéphanie Wojcik (Université Paris Est Créteil). > > *In parternship with: > * > > ·CERTOP/CNRS > ·CEDITEC, Université Paris Est Créteil > ·COSTECH, Université de Technologie de Compiègne > ·Groupement d'intérêt scientifique sur la participation du public aux > processus décisionnels et la démocratie participative(GIS Démocratie > et participation) > ·International Political Science Association (IPSA) - Research > Committee 10 "Electronic Democracy" > ·European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) - Standing Group on > Internet & Politics > >

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Re: [Air-L] Technology as ideologically neutral?
by Robert Rattle 08 Jul '12

08 Jul '12

...as if to drive home my last point below, it doesn't look like the URL came through http://computingourwaytoparadise.wordpress.com/2012/06/15/icts-for-sustaina… And my apologies for spelling your name incorrectly Cristian. --- On Sat, 7/7/12, Robert Rattle <robert14robert(a)yahoo.ca> wrote: From: Robert Rattle <robert14robert(a)yahoo.ca> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Technology as ideologically neutral? To: "Cristian Berrio Zapata" <cristian.berrio(a)gmail.com> Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Received: Saturday, July 7, 2012, 11:01 PM Christian, Fabulous! I had not read this work but will most certainly do so now. It seems to capture the essence of a recent (mess of a) video I put together to try and articulate this 'phenomenon.' ... I think...then again, I might have it all wrong. Everyone on this list seems so much more brilliant than I - if you have comments of any nature, please share. Robert --- On Sat, 7/7/12, Cristian Berrio Zapata <cristian.berrio(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: Cristian Berrio Zapata <cristian.berrio(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Technology as ideologically neutral? To: "jeremy hunsinger" <jhuns(a)vt.edu> Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Received: Saturday, July 7, 2012, 7:48 AM Pls do not let McLuhan out of the scope... in McLuhan, M. (1995). The Playboy Interview. Essential McLuhan, 233-269. “*In the past, the effects of media were experienced more gradually, allowing the individual and society to absorb and cushion their impact to some degree. Today, in the electronic age of instantaneous communication, I believe that our survival, and at the very least our comfort and happiness, is predicated on understanding the nature of our new environment, because unlike previous environmental changes, the electric media constitute a total and near-instantaneous transformation of culture, values and attitudes. This upheaval generates great pain and identity loss, which can be ameliorated only through a conscious awareness of its dynamics. If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves*.” (McLuhan, 1995) On the other hand, I am a fan of applying the "complexity" view to all ICT views. Therefore it would be quite difficult to sepparate politics, from ideology, from economics, from culture, all of them part of the Internet-Web pack. It comes to be very visible when looking at digital divide programes applied to indigenous communities. Regarding the "amputation" problem also raised by McLuhan, ICT tools let "self perception" out of the scope. Self perception (proprioception and tactile perception) is the base of affective bound, "love". Then, what are we depriving new generations of? 2012/7/7 jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> > I find this to be an interesting debate, though mostly the question is > where the ideology actually exists. Does it exist in the object itself? > relations to the object from other objects? relations to the object to > semiotic systems around it? relations to socius or culture? or in the > systems alone, cultures alone, socius, alone, etc. > > basically there is a matrix here of ideologies, contexts, objects and > their axiologies operating both ontologically ala mereological > constructions and epistemologies. With many blurry middle grounds. > > I hold that artifacts have politics in themselves, but i'm not sure that > all artefacts have ideologies in themselves. The question i tend to raise > and ask people to write about is... what is the politics of the toaster, > because the toaster has a whole political economics and a politics, but > does it have an implied ideology. Now the design of a toaster can > certainly have ideological components, but the idea of a toaster may > perhaps not, though granted whether the idea exists outside of the set of > objects is another debate for the Platonists to take up. > > however... I wonder about the neutrality of the internet because as I've > argued here before, that while there is no real internet beyond reference > to a conceptual idea that encompasses many technologies and systems that > lack what i'd all think of as a unity beyond the concept. So does it as a > whole have a neutrality or an ideology? there is a certain technocratic > rationality to it, and that rationality certainly has a traditionally > critiqued ideology, but is that in it, or in the design of it, or in the > relations of it within historic contexts? and isn't neutrality and the > claim to it, an ideological claim? I've always tended to argue that the > claim toward neutrality and objectivity is almost always ideological. > > one of my favorite authors on this technology as ideology is Paul Virilio > and my second favorite is Walter Benjamin in Arcades Project. > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- *Cristian Berrío Zapata* _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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Re: [Air-L] Technology as ideologically neutral?
by Robert Rattle 08 Jul '12

08 Jul '12

Christian, Fabulous! I had not read this work but will most certainly do so now. It seems to capture the essence of a recent (mess of a) video I put together to try and articulate this 'phenomenon.' ... I think...then again, I might have it all wrong. Everyone on this list seems so much more brilliant than I - if you have comments of any nature, please share. Robert --- On Sat, 7/7/12, Cristian Berrio Zapata <cristian.berrio(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: Cristian Berrio Zapata <cristian.berrio(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Technology as ideologically neutral? To: "jeremy hunsinger" <jhuns(a)vt.edu> Cc: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Received: Saturday, July 7, 2012, 7:48 AM Pls do not let McLuhan out of the scope... in McLuhan, M. (1995). The Playboy Interview. Essential McLuhan, 233-269. “*In the past, the effects of media were experienced more gradually, allowing the individual and society to absorb and cushion their impact to some degree. Today, in the electronic age of instantaneous communication, I believe that our survival, and at the very least our comfort and happiness, is predicated on understanding the nature of our new environment, because unlike previous environmental changes, the electric media constitute a total and near-instantaneous transformation of culture, values and attitudes. This upheaval generates great pain and identity loss, which can be ameliorated only through a conscious awareness of its dynamics. If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves*.” (McLuhan, 1995) On the other hand, I am a fan of applying the "complexity" view to all ICT views. Therefore it would be quite difficult to sepparate politics, from ideology, from economics, from culture, all of them part of the Internet-Web pack. It comes to be very visible when looking at digital divide programes applied to indigenous communities. Regarding the "amputation" problem also raised by McLuhan, ICT tools let "self perception" out of the scope. Self perception (proprioception and tactile perception) is the base of affective bound, "love". Then, what are we depriving new generations of? 2012/7/7 jeremy hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu> > I find this to be an interesting debate, though mostly the question is > where the ideology actually exists. Does it exist in the object itself? > relations to the object from other objects? relations to the object to > semiotic systems around it? relations to socius or culture? or in the > systems alone, cultures alone, socius, alone, etc. > > basically there is a matrix here of ideologies, contexts, objects and > their axiologies operating both ontologically ala mereological > constructions and epistemologies. With many blurry middle grounds. > > I hold that artifacts have politics in themselves, but i'm not sure that > all artefacts have ideologies in themselves. The question i tend to raise > and ask people to write about is... what is the politics of the toaster, > because the toaster has a whole political economics and a politics, but > does it have an implied ideology. Now the design of a toaster can > certainly have ideological components, but the idea of a toaster may > perhaps not, though granted whether the idea exists outside of the set of > objects is another debate for the Platonists to take up. > > however... I wonder about the neutrality of the internet because as I've > argued here before, that while there is no real internet beyond reference > to a conceptual idea that encompasses many technologies and systems that > lack what i'd all think of as a unity beyond the concept. So does it as a > whole have a neutrality or an ideology? there is a certain technocratic > rationality to it, and that rationality certainly has a traditionally > critiqued ideology, but is that in it, or in the design of it, or in the > relations of it within historic contexts? and isn't neutrality and the > claim to it, an ideological claim? I've always tended to argue that the > claim toward neutrality and objectivity is almost always ideological. > > one of my favorite authors on this technology as ideology is Paul Virilio > and my second favorite is Walter Benjamin in Arcades Project. > > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > -- *Cristian Berrío Zapata* _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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