Attraction: Mobile tools
R. Kelly ft. Nas
“Did You Ever Think” (1998)
The access point of your curiosity is the body, an exciting, new gadget. J. Macgregor Wise describes one perspective of human-technology relations as a received view in which mutually external parties can act upon one another, indulging an oscillation between technological and social determinism…
(cross posted on whateverbutton.com/blog)
Over the summer I wrote an essay called ‘Interactivity is Affectivity’ for the tutorial ‘Current themes in new media’. You may like to read the following teaser, or even click pdf for the pdf.
Partly in response to that stumper from a while back, ‘What’s a blog?’, this is another: What is interactivity?
I’ll start with the top result from a “define: interactivity” google query:
If your Web site is not interactive, it’s dead.
I really like this definition. It gives a sense of urgency – as in, “I want my website…