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Behold! The Exquisite Corpses. | Digital Literacy

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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. By dliteracy on November 24, 2008. Laquo; The Mechanical Turk. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.

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The Mechanical Turk. | Digital Literacy

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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. Posted in In Class. By dliteracy on November 24, 2008. Continuing our journey through antiquity, we hit upon the story of the mechanical turk, a chess playing automaton peddled around the courts of Napoleon and other illustrious figures. Oh yeah, and it turns out that it wasn’t really a robot, just an elaborate simulacrum hiding a chess-playing midget. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Website is another example of. Projects on their homepages. Laquo; The Nightengale.

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Wyld Stallyns Rule!!!!!! | Digital Literacy

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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. By dliteracy on November 24, 2008. Last week we talked about how technology can fracture your attention. But what about your sense of self? Humans have always tried to cram more personae into a single body, through the use of masks, costumes, role-playing, and story telling. Now, with homepages, personalizations galore, and profiles ad-nauseum, it can be hard to know exactly who you are…. Laquo; Tab Sprawl. The Message is the Medium. Subscribe to comments with RSS.

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The Message is the Medium | Digital Literacy

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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. The Message is the Medium. By dliteracy on November 26, 2008. Seems like so much net.art is about showing what you can do with the medium of the internet. I kinda like these vids, which are not just about using the net, but also a critical response to the aesthetics that comprise it. Can you think of any other examples of using the medium of the net to comment critically on its structure/visual presence/psychic landscape? Oh yeah, and also, this. Laquo; Wyld Stallyns Rule!

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Fame Us. | Digital Literacy

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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. By dliteracy on November 24, 2008. We’re gearing up for our final project – Internet Killed the Video Star! We’re forming bands, complete with personae, genre signifiers, posters, myspace, and other ephemera. To prepare ourselves for celebrity, today’s blog topic was:. Warhol told us we’d each get 15 minutes of fame, but that was before the Internet. Now how much do we get? Have you been famous? Do you even want to be? As always, check the blogroll for responses….

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Tab Sprawl | Digital Literacy

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Skip to search - Accesskey = s. By dliteracy on November 24, 2008. I often find myself with about a dozen tabs open. Sometimes some music will start playing and I can’t find the source of it…uber frustrating. I call this phenomenon tabsprawl. Today’s blog topic:. Technology mediates information. This can create focus, but more often, it seems to fragment attention. What are some positive and negative effects of this fragmentation? Do they reach beyond our interactions with computers? Laquo; Fame Us.