Hector Postigo on a theoretical framework for understanding how, generally, social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion.
Podcast, Tracy Fullerton: “Finer Fruits: Experiment in Life and Play at Walden”
Tracy Fullerton on Walden, a game that simulates Henry David Thoreau’s experiment in living a simplified existence as articulated in his book Walden.
Podcast, “New Media in West Africa”
Despite many infrastructural and economic hurdles, entertainment media industries are burgeoning in West Africa.
Podcast, Robert Darnton and Susan Flannery: “Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects”
How are libraries coping with the promise and perils of our impending digital future?
Podcast, Linda Gregerson: “Why I Write Poems”
Linda Gregerson discusses her new book of poems, The Selvage, and her calling as a poet and professor of Renaissance literature.
Podcast, Gediminas Urbonas
Gediminas Urbonas is artist and educator, and co-founder (with Nomeda Urbonas) of Urbonas Studio – an interdisciplinary research program that advocates for the reclamation of public culture.
Podcast, Tom Streeter: “The Internet and the Habitus of the New: What Would Pierre Bourdieu Say About Facebook?”
Tom Streeter: “Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of a habitus offers a way to make sense of the way digital novelty has become woven into the fabric of how we live.”
