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NYTimes: The Death of the Cyberflâneur
Whatever happened to the vision of an internet roamed by Cyberflâneurs?
3wfav  cyberculture  culture  cyberflaneur 
february 2012 by thewavingcat
Fast Company: This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business
Excellent article about the way the world is changing with increasing speed, and in increasingly chaotic ways: "The next decade or two will be defined more by fluidity than by any new, settled paradigm; if there is a pattern to all this, it is that there is no pattern. The most valuable insight is that we are, in a critical sense, in a time of chaos."
3wfav  business  culture  future  trends 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
What Could Have Been Entering the Public Domain on January 1, 2012?
The copyright system is pretty badly broken. Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain shows a few of the cultural works that would have entered the Public Domain - allowing you to reproduce, remix, and share them - under the copyright law in it's 1978 version. That is, before copyright was extended from formerly 28 years after publication to last ridiculously long, namely for 70 years after the author's death. There is a whole treasure trove of culture, locked away and in many cases inaccessible.
3wfav  copyright  culture  law 
january 2012 by thewavingcat
WIRED: How Smartphones Are Changing Photography: The Numbers Are In
No day goes by where we don't snap a few shots with our camera phones. Yet, numbers on the overall role of smart phones in the world of photography were relatively rare. This just changed. Here are some solid statistics of "regular" cameras vs camera phones.
3wfav  photography  digital  culture  smart  phones  cell  camera 
december 2011 by thewavingcat
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins: "The Tomorrow That Never Was": Retrofuturism in the Comics of Dean Motter (Part One)
As the society entered into a new phase of prolonged and profound media change brought about by the so-called "digital revolution," the nation's artists were trying to figure out what aspects of science fiction could be carried forward and which needed to
culture  theory  academic  cyberpunk  retro  retrofuturism  cyberculture  steampunk  literature 
june 2007 by thewavingcat
White Paper: Cultural Dimensions and Global Web Design:
What? So What? Now What? This paper introduces dimensions of culture, as analyzed by Geert Hofstede in his classic study of cultures in organizations, and considers how they might affect user-interface designs.
culture  design  webdesign  intercultural  userexperience  resources  study  research 
june 2007 by thewavingcat
Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive Busyness vs. Burst: Why Corporate Web Workers Look Unproductive «
"There’s a culture clash inside office buildings where workers from the busyness economy sit in cubicles next to workers from the burst economy — web workers."
corporate  web  webworker  web2.0  culture 
june 2007 by thewavingcat

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