Hi all, I'm sure Nathan Jurgenson and others have commented about this on the Cyborgology blog (http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/). I'd also second the suggestion of Simon Reynolds' Retromania - with the addition of the various commentaries about his book. More generally, I'd be surprised if this hasn't been discussed much more widely in the context of music subcultures - which is what Reynolds' book mainly concentrates upon (the use of early synthesisers in current electronic music, the widespread practice in heavy metal, punk and 'indie' circles of releasing vinyl, etc. etc.) Alexander David Pask-Hughes PhD student Seminar Tutor for LING204: Discourse Analysis Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University E-mail: a.pask-hughes@lancaster.ac.uk Twitter: @adpaskhughes ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Deller, Ruth A [R.A.Deller@shu.ac.uk] Sent: 14 November 2013 12:55 To: 'Air-L@listserv.aoir.org' Subject: [Air-L] Retro technologies and memes Hi all I'm writing a piece that involves discussion of the use of MS Paint within a particular web culture and I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of articles (whether 'academic' or not) on the trend within web cultures, particularly meme cultures, to deliberately reference 'primitive' or 'retro'-technologies such as Paint? I'm not just interested for this article - we're delivering new modules looking at media technologies soon so any articles about retro cultures in terms of referencing and reusing older technologies would be interesting. Ruth Deller Principal Lecturer in Media Room 9210 Cantor Building, Shefield Hallam University, UK r.a.deller@shu.ac.uk<mailto:r.a.deller@shu.ac.uk>, http://www.ruthdeller.co.uk<http://www.ruthdeller.co.uk/>, @ruthdeller<http://www.twitter.com/ruthdeller> _______________________________________________ The Air-L@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/