Sabrina Gelbart on New Media

I'm using this site for notes and thoughts from my History and Theory of New Media course but I might also throw in info on other projects I'm working on, we'll see.

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Exploring Tumblr: My Feelings So Far

I want to use Tumblr’s cool little quote post thing but I also want to be able to comment on the quotes.  I guess I’ll stick with block quotes in text posts.

Also, why can’t tumbler include shorter posts like twitter as well? Couldn’t it also be a twitter replacement? I feel like just by making me include a title it’s making tweet style posts impossible. Am I format obsessed?

New Media Reading Blog: Public Display Of...  

What a great post! I’ve been really interested in topics pertaining to new media and identity, but I haven’t come across anything about it in my reading so far. I love the idea of attention as a commodity.

Human beings crave connections. We crave people who listen and favourably respond to us, social networks utilise this craving as public displays of connections. This allows users to explicitly display these connections to an audience within a social media context, that allows users to express…
“ [the internet will] ensnarl already difficult legal matters concerning privacy, copyright and ethics ”

Jones (1994!!!) via Lister, et al. New Media: A Critical Introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. Print.

SGonNewMedia on Twitter 

To tumble or to tweet?  Which is better for publishing my notes for my new media course…hmm….

civil liberties vs. the net

That last quote makes me wonder about how everyone is feeling about civil liberties and the internet today.  For some reason I am slightly less disturbed by my lack of privacy today than I might have expected to be before.

“ democratic rights of all kinds are sacrifice to the ‘war on terror’ and the intimate weave of communications technologies into the fabric of everyday life offers unprecedented opportunities for consumer and political surveillance. ”

Lister, et al. New Media: A Critical Introduction. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. Print.

oh why?

I joined another social networking type site.  I think that’s what this is at least.  Hmm how will using this service make my life better?

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