Hi, two comments: First, a superpower acts more or less in concert; Fb is more of a collocation, much like a phone network. Second, it might be my bias, but I think the 'Arab Spring' etc. would have been pretty much the same without Fb and indeed without the net; we tend far too much to create a kind of technological functionalism as explanatory. Reaganism credited the US for the collapse of the Soviet Union; to me, there's a relation. As you point out (denigration of Afghans), Fb is more a network of networks (much like the older description of the net itself); it doesn't act in unity, and it's very often not on the ground in terms of geopolitics. I'd think a fruitful direction would be to consider the locus of Fb's political power in the interface itself, which is more or less the same for everyone; is there a good, perhaps psychoanalytical analysis of 'friendship' in relation to the software for example? Thanks, Alan (over my head here) On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Carmela Baranowska wrote:
hi,
Please find a recent article I wrote on 'Facebook is the New Superpower' for The Conversation:
http://theconversation.edu.au/articles/facebook-is-the-new-superpower-894
I would like to submit it to the list. Comments and disagreements welcome and appreciated!
all the best, Carmela Baranowska Lecturer in Media Australian Catholic University Carmela.Baranowska@acu.edu.au ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org] Sent: Wednesday, 13 April 2011 8:00 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Air-L Digest, Vol 81, Issue 11
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1. Open Day WebSciences Master Degree in Paris, May 5th. (Antoine Mazi?res) 2. Representations of the internet in popular culture (Delia Dumitrica)
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Hi all,
For the third year, we are opening applications for the *Master degree in Web Sciences in Paris*. The main purpose of this cursus is to allow students from the fields of sciences, design, humanities to perform interdisciplinary studies/researches on the Web and Internet, from academics, public and private contexts.
All of you are welcome at the *open day: May 5th, 5:30pm*, at the Center of Interdisciplinary Research http://masterwebscience.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/open-day/
This master degree, "Interdisciplinary Approaches of the Web" (in french "Approches Interdisciplinaires du Web", AIW) was built in order to understand how Internet transfrom more and more aspects of our societies, and how to participate to this evolution by building an interdisciplinary point of view. We aim at building a teaching around topics as the modelisation of Internet, interfaces design, services economy, usage sociology, information spreading, e-education. AIW Master, like all courses at CRI, are built on the principle of "formation by doing research". Students from very different disciplines are encouraged to work together and build projects both theoretical and with concrete outputs. In order to give means to its student to realize projects, AIW is in deep relation with Fabelier's prototyping lab ( http://fabelier.org ), hosted at the same place.
If you are a M2 student, you can follow tuesday's seminars (5:30pm-7:30pm) and get 12 university credits (ECTS). If you want to be full-time AIW student, you have to follow the tuesday's seminars and do 3 interships form different disciplines (humanities/sciences/engineering/art) and contexts (research/industry/association/personnal projects). If you just want to come by... you can !
Agenda of the May 5th: - meeting teachers and former students - open seminar (your presentations are welcomed ) - Q&A session - inscriptions - presentation of student club
See you there,
Antoine Mazi?res
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Message: 2 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:45:02 -0600 (MDT) From: "Delia Dumitrica" <dddumitr@ucalgary.ca> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Representations of the internet in popular culture Message-ID: <4ca053f7a445b933e447f6323f69fd9a.squirrel@webmail.ucalgary.ca> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
Hello, I'm putting together a course on representations of the internet in popular culture and I was wondering if anyone on this list may have any suggestions for journal articles or book chapters focusing on the portrayal of the internet (or of computer networking) in science fiction movies and novels. Please email me off-list at dddumitr@ucalgary.ca
Thank you.
Delia Dumitrica PhD Student & Sessional Instructor Department of Communication and Culture University of Calgary
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