Eduardo Marisca: “But the need was not for technologies themselves. It’s something that they can get their hands on. The biggest problem was process.”
My Pins Are My Dreams: Pinterest, Collective Daydreams, and the Aspirational Gap
The socially-networked nature of Pinterest allows a new type of malleable, global and taste-based community to develop that can engage in collective imaginative play.
Jonathan Sterne, “Who Tunes Whom?: Auto-Tune, the Earth, and the Politics of Frequency”
McGill’s Jonathan Sterne gives a cultural history of auto-tune as a form of signal processing, drawing on patent documents, interviews, operational protocols, tuning standards and competing acoustemologies.
Video: Peer Economy Takeaways from My Summer Research
Denise Cheng: “We kicked off the 2013 academic year with second-year CMS grad students presenting about their thesis topic and summer research.”
Alum Parmesh Shahani Named One of Financial Times 25 “Indians to Watch”; Costanza-Chock on Apps for Sandy
“Bringing new insights to a stuffy 115-year-old Indian conglomerate isn’t easy, nor is being an openly gay man in India’s still-traditional business culture – but Parmesh Shahani manages both.”
Podcast: Hector Postigo, “Cultural Production and Social Media as Capture Platforms: How the Matrix Has You”
Hector Postigo on a theoretical framework for understanding how, generally, social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion.
Cultural Production and Social Media as Capture Platforms: How the Matrix Has You
Hector Postigo’s presentation develops a framework for understanding how social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion.
