Category Archives: cybercity
outtake: public wi-fi & nola
The following is an outtake from an article Cindi Katz and I have been writing on the relationship between U.S. children and young people and their technological environments in the post-9/11 security state. Once/if the final article is published, I’ll post a link to it here. In the meantime, consider this a “teaser.” These shifts, [...]
Connectile Dysfunction (CD)
“You know the feeling” the empathic male voiceover announces, “you can’t take care of business the way others do.” You can’t, because you have what’s called “Connectile Dysfunction” or “CD” which the voiceover explains as “a condition caused by inadequate broadband coverage.” The denizens of New Orleans know this feeling all too well, that is [...]
I am cow, not machine.
poster observed on east 9th street, NYC :: sent wirelessly via blackberry
a reading list: exploring theory and practice
Embracing the so called ‘cybercity’ as a specific unit of analysis, my second doctoral exam reading list will explore how processes of education and citizen participation are transmuted by the cybercity and how these transmuted processes in turn produce and reproduce the cybercity. In order for this exploration to begin clarification must first be achieved [...]
Silicon Spaces and the city of “Half.com”
This post has been imported from the NML Research Blog… On the flight to Oregon I read Michael Indegaard’s Silicon Alley: the Rise and Fall of a New Media District. “Silicon Alley” mostly runs along Broadway from the Flatiron to the Financial District (see map below). Indegaard makes two important points in his book: 1) [...]
AAG Session: Democracy and the Public Sphere In a Web 2.0 World