“The animated GIF is a Brechtian medium”
“Microphones + Crooning + Nazis + Radio + Bing Crosby + $50,000 = Silicon Valley”
“MOOC’s only make sense if you don’t think about it too much”
“Jane Austen’s internet success isn’t so surprising”
“a handful of people wearing Google Glass, now standing next to me at their own urinals”
“Cars didn’t end up awarding us freedom, nor did they serve to better connect us to our friends and communities” (more…)
“paying in Bitcoin could be more convenient than converting to local currency while traveling abroad”
“Paul Miller was never more aware of the internet than when he made himself live without it”
“Airbnb indulges the fantasy that we might temporarily inhabit another life”
“after about a year of usefulness, Yelp very quickly became a terrible source of information”
“Apparently no one has ever sent Nicholas Carr or Sherry Turkle a tastefully brief Snapchat”
“The nostalgia that attracts a fan to “Garden State” is of a particular Internet variety”
“there’s a lot of “reality” in the virtual, and a lot of “virtual” in our reality”
“this is a new way of expression that does not have a direct correlate offline”
“Teens are the ideal tweeters because they are never happy and always interesting”
“the cell phone’s ability to signify status has given three beeps and vanished like a dropped call”
“they buy up thousands of dollars in pizza currency & then trade it for Bitcoin currency”
“Just because he used the acronym LOL in a text message and on Twitter doesn’t make him evil; it makes him a young person who sends text messages and uses Twitter. He is evil because he allegedly helped bomb the Boston Marathon” (more…)
“Cable news is dead, but something keeps animating the corpse”
“Human genes do not augment the body, they are the body”
“memes circulate us rather than vice versa”
“many of the declarations whizzing around Boston look like sympathy but smell like attention-seeking”
“social networking sites are not a separate realm of political activity”
“We need a multitude of what I call “Denial of Positivism (DoP)” attacks from various directions”
“the Google car was treated with deference no matter how recklessly we drove”
“iPad painting: just of the many similarities between George W. Bush and Churchill” (more…)
“On the whole, academia is quite anti-popular writing”
“I was hoping one of my cat vines was popular, not this tragedy”
“Jenna Marbles already embodies the future of celebrity”
“Digital dualism can blind us to the real and serious problems of online vigilantism”
“Facebook invites us to forget we even had a self before Timeline was there to organize it”
“the emoticon scheme makes us shoppers for new, bonus feelings à la carte”
Nathan is on Twitter [@nathanjurgenson] and Tumblr [nathanjurgenson.com]. (more…)
“the collective value of all bitcoins has passed a billion dollars”
“Irene Serra chose the name -isq for her band deliberately to make it hard to find online”
“the public quickly accepts all the miracles that science provides (1948)”
“it is often difficult to distinguish between organized trolling and media linkbait” (more…)
“There’s a strong, specifically technocratic conflation between efficiency and good in Silicon Valley”
“Drones date online, but drones don’t think about it the way that humans do”
“The Work of Art in the Age of the Internet”
“We have a billion folks using our services now, and we want to get to 3 or 5 billion one day”
“Throughout Zuckerberg’s talk, people and Facebook friends were used interchangeably“
“There’s a stereotypical Pinterest user and I can’t escape the feeling that it is what I have become”
Nathan is on Twitter [@nathanjurgenson] and Tumblr [nathanjurgenson.com]. (more…)
“Twitter seems to be making aspects of academic practice more visible”
“as long as people want to be seen reading, things to read will be printed”
“photos are disposable records of moments, to be taken in bulk and largely forgotten and unshared”
““It made it more real to folks,” he said. “There’s nothing like a hundred YouTube videos to do that””
“This makes the drone the greatest champion of neoliberal practices”
“The False Distinction Between “Online” And “The Real”
“The great sin of Facebook is that it made “like” far too important and too obvious”
“he is siphoning off my very lifeblood in the service of charging his Apple-issued heart replacement”
“Cyborg writing is the first instant of picking up the tools”
“Shaw thought the videos looked “pre-viral” and saw an opportunity to exploit them”
“Sandberg assumes that the feminist question is simply, how can I be a more successful worker?”
Nathan is on Twitter [@nathanjurgenson] and Tumblr [nathanjurgenson.com]. (more…)
“If autonomous vehicles obey traffic laws, income from traffic violations should go down”
“Tumblr encourages unbounded use. It allows you to experiment and play”
“Drones as killer robots, drones as children sent off to war”
“if engineers could come up with an iPotty that fits in your purse, links up to Twitter and takes photos, toilet access might catch up with phones” (thanks jenny!)
Nathan is on Twitter [@nathanjurgenson] and Tumblr [nathanjurgenson.com]. (more…)
This guest-post and #TtW13 review is cross-posted with permission from Technophilosophy, a French digital theory blog.
On Saturday, March 2nd, 2013, I made a presentation in New York as part of the International Conference Theorizing the Web. Organized by Nathan Jurgenson (@nathanjurgenson) and PJ Rey (@pjrey) [Yes, I also wonder what his real name is], both doctoral students in sociology at the University of Maryland (Washington, DC), the event was held in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. A prestigious and perfectly equipped venue (no Wi-Fi issues), which promoted the sharing of high quality insights. (more…)
© 2013 Cyborgology
