There’s a lot of really interesting discussion going on at the moment about the role that social media and online/offline networks have played and are continuing to play in the revolutions which have swept across Tunisia and Egypt and are emerging in Libya, Bahrain, Yemen and Iran. Manuel Castells, the Catalan sociologist most famous for [...]
Archive for February, 2011
Mediating Environmental Change Symposium
Posted in media ecology, tagged environment, hardware, media on February 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m currently working on a paper for a MECCSA one day symposium called Mediating Environmental Change: Exploring the Way Forwards. The event takes place in Bournemouth on Friday 4th May and judging by the line up it promises to be a great event. My paper’s titled ‘Media, Materiality and the Environment: Exploring the Ethics and [...]
Media Ecology, Memetics and the Evolution of Ideas
Posted in media ecology, tagged evolution, meme, memes on February 14, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Memes are a concept that keep popping up in discussions around contemporary media technologies and social relations. Within the field of media ecology, Matt Fuller devotes a large section of a chapter of his Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Technoculture book to memetics, contending that as a neo-darwinian cultural analogy the term may be a [...]
Tomas Rawlings on Media Ecology
Posted in media ecology, tagged computing, digital, materiality, media, media ecology, virtuality on February 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Really good blog post from Tomas Rawlings, a Pervasive Media Studio Resident, DCRC PhD candidate and all round top bloke, on how his research adopts an ecological approach to media. I’m doing a talk at Goldsmiths about games today. Not just games as we tend to find them now, but how the impact of the [...]
