Thank you guys... I was initially running the inquiry for a friend. Now, I am kinda glad I did. The results look very interesting :) b. On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Mirko Tobias Schaefer <M.T.Schaefer@uu.nl>wrote:

you might be interested in our latest publication, formulating a more 'materialist' approach to new media:

Digital Material. Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology. University of Amsterdam Press. 2009. You can download it from http://mtschaefer.net/entry/digital-material/ (for a critique of Web 2.0 you might want to have a look at my contribution to the book: "Participation Inside? User Activities between Design and Appropriation"

I have written more on that in my dissertation: Bastard Culture! User Participation and the Extension of Cultural Industries. Utrecht University 2008. (it will be published at Amsterdam University Press next year). http://mtschaefer.net/entry/bastard-culture-2/

Another critical account is José van Dijck: Users like you? Theorizing Agency in User-generated Content. http://mcs.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/31/1/41

best wishes mirko tobias

Burcu Bakioglu wrote:

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Folks, Does anyone out there know of anyone in the humanities who's a critic of social media? Running this query for a colleague... Thanks a bunch!

-- Thanks,</burcu> Burcu S. Bakioglu, Ph.D. http://www.palefirer.com http://palefirer.com/blog/ Skype: PaleFireR AIM: PaleFireR -- "Congratulations! You're the first human to fail the Turing test."