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FCJManager has written 278 posts for The Fibreculture Journal

FCJ-062 Reinventing the Possibilities: Academic Literacy and New Media

Cheryl Ball, Department of English, Illinois State University Ryan ‘rylish’ Moeller, Department of English, Utah State University This in an interactive text—click here to open. Abstract This webtext demonstrates the possibilities of using new media to teach students critical literacy skills applicable to the 21st century. It is a manifesto for what we think writing…

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FCJ-061 Composing and Compositing: Integrated Digital Writing and Academic Pedagogy

Jamie ‘Skye’ Bianco Assistant Professor and Co-Director of Composition, Queens College, City University of New York Prelude: Formal Anticipation and Origins[1] This middle does not play the role of an average but rather serves as the means by which life enjoys ‘the absolute speed of movement‘ (Pearson, 1999: 169) As the epigraph might be understood…

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FCJ-060 Toward an Algorithmic Pedagogy

Holly Willis Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California Colleges and universities in the United States currently face a daunting challenge: how can we transform longstanding definitions of literacy to account for not only the vast social shifts wrought by the centrality of networked, visual and aural media, but epistemological shifts as well? Calls…

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Issue 10 – New Pedagogies

This issue of fibreculture journal is based on an invitation to respond to the following provocation: It is easy to argue that much of the rhetoric attached to “new media” and the internet in relation to pedagogy has mistaken quantity for quality. It has been a conversation that has confused the qualitative changes that our…

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FCJ-059 Domestic ICTs, Desire and Fetish

Michael Arnold, Martin Gibbs, Chris Shepherd Unviversity of Melbourne, Australia We make our objects from what we make of our world, and in return they teach us: this is fetishism’s object lesson. Ellen Lee McCallum (1999: xxii) Introduction Matthew lives alone in a run-down, one-bedroom apartment in Melbourne suburbia. Visitors to Matthew’s home are extremely…

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FCJ-058 Contact Aesthetics and Digital Arts: At the Threshold of the Earth

Warwick Mules Central Queensland University, Australia ‘Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and immovable’. (Baudelaire, ‘The Painter of Modern Life’, 1863) Aesthesis Modern aesthetics has always been concerned with the human senses in apprehension of art objects.[1] In modern aesthetic experience something…

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FCJ-057 The Case of ‘Mafiaboy’ and the Rhetorical Limits of Hacktivism

Gary Genosko Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada Canada proved to be the home of the most notorious Web hacker to date, “Mafiaboy,” a Montreal teen who intermittently crippled the Web sites of Amazon, CNN, Dell, eBay, and Yahoo! from 7-15 February 2000 by means of a distributed denial of service attack in which Web servers…

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FCJ-056 Cultural planning and Chaos Theory in Cyberspace: some notes on a Digital Cultural Atlas Project for Western Sydney

Bob Hodge and Elaine Lally University of Western Sydney A perennial issue for digital politics has been the debate between those who claim a liberatory role for digital technologies and those who see them as instruments for a more effective oppression. We prefer to avoid such abstract oppositions and ask more specific questions: what kind…

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FCJ-055 Prosthetics Making Sense: Dancing the Technogenetic Body

Erin Manning Concordia University, Montréal Explorations of new technologies and dance, led by Mark Coniglio, Scott de Lahunta, Antonio Camurri and others, focus on the difficulty of locating gesture-as-such. One key to developing sensitive software is understanding — and embedding into the software program — what a gesture is. In a recent paper, Scott de…

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FCJ-054 Digital Bodies and Disembodied Voices: Virtual Idols and the Virtualised Body

Daniel Black Monash University, Australia Introduction The virtual idol, a computer-generated media celebrity, is a figure representative of a cultural milieu in which arrangements of data seem interchangeable with physical materiality. We are currently in an historical moment when form, information and data are widely understood to be rendering matter, physicality and flesh increasingly redundant….

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