The ongoing reports about Egypt’s protests, being cut off from the internet, and alternative venues of communication are far beyond my competence. However, here are some of the sources I found more valuable than others. Please link to more useful resources in the comments. »»»»
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I love my job, but right now, I’m just a little bit envious of D.S. Bigham. Bigham is Editor-in-Chief at the Popular Linguistics Magazine, an amazingly fascinating and above all timely online journal that launched just a few days ago. (I first read about it in the always interesting Language Log.) »»»»
Do we still use the web as if it were television? Do we mistake internet terminals for TV sets?
Obviously, in some ways we do. It seems preposterous to think that we could avoid it. But where this gets especially interesting is in those areas where our behaviour towards TV was already formed by operative confusions, by an uneasy cultural adaptation to those peculiarities of a technology that do not completely match our actual use of the medium. I think that our troubles with imagining watching while being watched is central to our trouble in dealing with privacy issues online. And this is true not only for our failure to imagine that the web is watching us back; but also for our fear that it is. »»»»
So as before, I am still looking for creative responses to cablegate that might begin a cultural brainstorming, perhaps eventually helping us to figure out what this is and what we want it to be; but also to help assert individual creative voices in the face of a potentially overwhelming publication.
Which is why for my first test-run on Quora, a new question-and-answer social network, I asked:
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The Netzwerk Fiktion is meeting again this week for another workshop in Berlin. The meeting also includes two public lectures: »»»»
Joe Quesada has been editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics for roughly ten years now. He is moving on, not away from Marvel or chief-editing, but on to being “Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Entertainment”; the new job description also reflects the recently broadened focus on Marvel productions in various media, including but not limited to comics, a change also related to the Marvel/Disney merger, and apropos to the number of recent and upcoming Marvel comic book adaptations at the movies as well as their unprecedented intertextual co-ordination. »»»»
I recently said we needed more creative ways to deal with Wikileaks and Cablegate: As a kind of cultural brainstorming, producing concepts and arguments before deciding which of them are keepers; but also as a re-assertion of creative voices in the face of a publication that threatens to overwhelm on many levels. Since I did so, several readers have pointed out some more creative responses (thank you!). »»»»
One of the three projects I outlined for 2011 concerns the study of textual control. As a collection of hypotheses to be tested, for future reference as well as immediate discussion, here are some basic suggestions on what that might mean. »»»»
Meredith L. Patterson has issued a call for submissions to a remarkable collection entitled All the Citizen’s Men: It promises ‘critical responses’ to individual cables from the wikileaks collection. Among the many trials and errors reacting to a new phenomenon, this is easily the most promising I have seen. »»»»
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