February 2012
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“Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her...”
– Naomi Wolf on the Madonna hate. (via reeraw)
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STATE INTERVENTION, VIDEOGAMES AND THE PUBLIC... →
dropouthangoutspaceout: This thesis illustrates, using political economy, the ways in which governments increasingly play a large role in developing, or encouraging the development of, videogames, and how these games then circulate and interact as political texts in the public sphere. This is achieved in four parts: two on history and theory, and two case studies. The theoretical chapters have...
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Please Revise...: 2011: The Birth of e-Populism →
pleaserevise: If you run in circles anything like mine, you may have noticed that you spent a surprising amount of time discussing the concept of openness in 2011. Perhaps it was in the context of participation in a theorized open government, the incremental mainstreaming of open coding practices on…
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“Repetition, according to Hegel, plays a crucial role in history: when something...”
– Shoplifters of the World Unite - Slavoj Žižek on the meaning of the riots (via rumagin) This is an interesting article. Points to chew on in my unresolved quest to figure our what model of organization makes the most sense. I’m pretty well over the informal affinity group type of bullshit...
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July 2011
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June 2011
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Metaviews: Gamification & the Dreams of Power →
dropouthangoutspaceout: I believe that videogames are powerful tools and powerful ways of communicating – but they are only just that – another way to communicate, just as the telegraph, radio and television were. Yet gamification seems to offer the promise of a new way of engineering happiness – a new way of controlling the population when consumerism seems to have come up so short in creating...
Jun 27th
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Fake Identities Were Used on Twitter in Effort to... →
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A Lulzy Take on Media Literacy | Metaviews Media... →
lukesimcoe: Wherein I offer a few words about LulzSec and the importance of media literacy.
Jun 10th
Metaviews: Lisa Nakamura's Return to the Material →
dropouthangoutspaceout: My thoughts and re-cap on her great keynote talk at CCA “Race, Labor and Indigeneity: The Birth of New Media in the American West.”
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May 2011
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Encountering 4chan and Anonymous: The Lesson(s) of... →
lukesimcoe: I share a few obvious thoughts about the significance of Anonymous’ “civil war”.
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April 2011
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lukesimcoe: Michael Wesch (Kansas State), “Anonymous, Anonymity, and the End(s) of Identity and Groups Online: Lessons from ‘The First Internet-Based Superconsciousness’”
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Encountering 4chan and Anonymous: The Drama of... →
lukesimcoe: My thoughts on ED’s decision to an hero. I promise the link does not take you to a video of Poptart Cat. 
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Google to sentence YouTube violators to 'copyright... →
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March 2011
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» You know its a bubble when there are ice... →
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Metaviews: Blizzard's quest to destroy digital... →
dropouthangoutspaceout: Some thoughts on Tron (?), closed virtual worlds, command and control and why imperfect unstable spaces are the most creative. 
Mar 10th
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What Malcolm Gladwell gets wrong about social media (12:13)
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One-minute (and change) video reviews of Canadian...
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