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Distributed communities and nodal subjects -- Gochenour 8 (1): 33 -- New Media & Society
Got to remember to dl (when I'm on a school connection) and read this for my spam article. Interesting implications for how we define "communities" when we talk about things on computer networks.
systemstheory  nodes  network  netculture  community  toread  forarticle 
april 2010 by finnb
Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2010: Papers: Cope, A.S., Buckets and Vessels
This seems like a really important, and long, collection of materials about curation, aggregation, museums and network knowledge practice but I'm too tired to read it right now. For later.
knowledge  netculture  museums  organization  toread 
march 2010 by finnb
…My heart’s in Accra » Makmende’s so huge, he can’t fit in Wikipedia
Good article on Makmende and the complex cultural barriers that divide the Internet (or how we continue to make "local" space)
makmende  meme  kenya  netculture 
march 2010 by finnb
Village sleuth unmasks US internet predator behind suicide ‘pacts’ - Times Online
Outstandingly weird and unpleasant story about suicide voyeurism, assumed identities, the complex emotional advantage you take of people in the odd pseudo-intimacy of a late-night chat session. Need to finish reading this
toread  voyeur  suicide  identity  pseudonymity  affect  netculture 
march 2010 by finnb

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