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Interview with Elias Aboujaoude MD, author of ‘Virtually You’

Ave Tampere | 30 October 2011, 12:50 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

‘Virtually You‘ is the book I reviewed some time back. It talks about the dangerous effects life online can have on our personalities and lives. I managed to get hold of the author of the book, Elias Aboujaoude MD, for a quick email interview. I approached him with the thought that perhaps he could offer some thinking points for…

Book review: Adrian Mackenzie – Wirelessness

Bree Tahapary | 26 September 2011, 3:25 pm | tags: , , , , ,

A development towards the wireless is in full effect. Take for instance video game consoles like the Nintendo Wii or PlayStation 3, which make use of wireless controllers. Add the Wi-Fi for internet connectivity and the gamer is set to go and lose his or herself in an immersive experience. Or take a look at your smartphone for example, that’s…

Book review: Television as Digital Media, edited by James Benett and Niki Strange

Laura Burlacu | 22 September 2011, 2:00 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

Fig.1. Television as Digital Media book cover. Retrieved from http://tinyurl.com/3d3g2ly.

Have you ever wondered how remote controls have influences television viewers’ patterns across the years, or how the original Star Trek series has forever changed production patterns within the industry? If you have, then the 2011 Television as Digital Media book is for you. And if your…

Book Review: The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov

Sebastiaan Smink | 22 September 2011, 1:04 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

In his book ‘The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World’ Belarusian-born writer Evgeny Morozov finely describes and critiques a delusion he calls cyber-utopianism: the believe that online communication technologies have the power to liberate, democratize. Many people today believe that social network sites can reinvent social activism. Instead Morozov, a digital-scepticist so to say, argues that…

What cultural policy in the era of globalization and electronic media?

Natalia Miszczak | 21 September 2011, 5:24 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Cultural revolution has already taken place. What has changed is not only participation in culture, but cultural environment itself, characterized by such slogans as “culture 2.0” or “culture of participation”. Changes in forms of participation in culture (following the development of new communication technologies) and the changes of civilization cause that in the near future, almost everyone will provide themselves…

Book Review: ‘Cyber War’ by Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake

Maarten Jansen | 21 September 2011, 3:12 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Richard A. Clarke has worked for the U.S. government for 30 years. In the White House he served Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W.H. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Under Clinton and W. Bush, he worked as National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counterterrorism. He ended his career at the government as the Special Advisor to George W.…

Book Review: KINGPIN by Kevin Poulsen

Mario Gesteira | 21 September 2011, 12:41 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,
If you like police stories with persecution, infiltration and investigation KINGPIN may be just the right book for you. Written by Kevin Poulsen, it is an exciting story of the rise of  one hacker to the control of the biggest crime forum on the internet.

Kevin Poulsen is a former black hat hacker (a hacker that acts as a…

Book review: Precarious Rhapsody. Semiocapitalism and the pathologies of the post-alpha generation by Franco “Bifo” Berardi

Martijn Dorresteijn | 20 September 2011, 9:30 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Precarious RhapsodyAn infinite series of bifurcations, forking paths, choices (to be) made. Every choice made rules out other possibilities. But do we make these choices, or are they made for us? Is there a real choice? In Precarious Rhapsody, Franco Berardi traces back these chains of bifurcations and unravels the many (psycho)pathologies that accompany them. How have the social, economic and…

Book review: In the Plex by Steven Levy

Demet Dagdelen | 20 September 2011, 9:08 pm | tags: , , ,

“I wanted to write a book that got the reader inside Google and learned about its thought process, the way it planned and built products, its visions for the future, and the way it struggled with issues like China, competitive challenges, regulation, and the (perhaps) inevitable inertia that plagues companies as they get big. To do that I needed unprecedented access, and Google took a risk and gave it to me. “

Book Review: ‘Voice: Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media’ by Norie Neumark, Ross Gibson and Theo van Leeuwen (Editors)

Liam Voice | 20 September 2011, 1:00 am | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now. I am trying to find my voice. (Maybe I should just steal it).

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.” (Polonius’ advice Laertes in Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3)

Our voice is important. Implicit in this quote is the knowledge that our voice communicates…