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| Blog Name: | FuturePresent |
| Url: | http://futurepresent.typepad.com/blog/ |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | activism, network, media |
| Description: | FuturePresent Blog marks my escape from nihilism, apathy and general brain-fag, in search of generative activism. It's both an attempt to generate a metadiscussion about the possibilities for activism through networked media and an experimental site for my own activism online. ________________________________________________________ Exploring the possibilities for networked activism online does not preclude that the the way forward is not the 'refusenik's' (Pew Internet, 'The Future of the Internet', 2006). Lately I've been feeling quite dispondent about my relationship to technology and our networked media world. Through the timespan of this blog, this relationship has (d)evolved. An early advocate of free, participatory online culture, I've long grown disillusioned by the constant techno-babble of us technocrats, in our social networks. What are the benefits of being networked together 24/7 at a speed that refigures conceptions of spacetime? What of the hunger for the up-to-the-nanosecond-latest gadgets and APIs? What of the twitterverse? What of international technological divides? What of Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants (Prensky 2001)? What of Digital Emmigrants? Must we be pulled by the centripetal force towards technological advancement? ________________________________________________________ As an advocate of free network culture, my work fuses critical media practice and theory. It stems from an intrigue in the relationships between spacetime, genealogy, (geo/bio)politics, environmentalism, networked and locative media, activism and participation, cognition, performance and the cultural narratives with which we weave these together. ________________________________________________________ Currently, I'm a Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media at The Media School, Bournemouth University, UK. I am co-director of IPE [interact/perform/experiment], part of the Institute for Media and Communication Research, at The Media School. |
| Popularity: | 10 Followers |
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. A cartoon by Steve Bell published in The Guardian on July 9, 2009 © 2009 Steve Bell . Philip Challinor, wrote the following piece in The Curmudgeon (25 November 2009: 19:34), in response to Cruel Britannia: British Complicity in the Torture and Ill-treatment of Terror Suspects in Pakistan (a report by Human Rights Watch, 24 November 2009): Flawed Intelligence A report by Human Rights Watch claims that there is clear evidence of the British government's involvement in the inexpediently enhanced interrogation of its own citizens, and that the British government has thus placed itself in a "legally, morally and...
. A cartoon by Steve Bell published in The Guardian on July 9, 2009 © 2009 Steve Bell . Philip Challinor, wrote the following piece in The Curmudgeon (25 November 2009: 19:34), in response to Cruel Britannia: British Complicity in the Torture and Ill-treatment of Terror Suspects in Pakistan (a report by Human Rights Watch, 24 November 2009): Flawed Intelligence A report by Human Rights Watch claims that there is clear evidence of the British government's involvement in the inexpediently enhanced interrogation of its own citizens, and that the British government has thus placed itself in a "legally, morally and...
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