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FCJ-033 Beat me, Whip me, Spank me, Just Make it Right Again: beyond the didactic masochism of global resistance
Scott Sharpe School of Physical Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, Australian Defence Force Academy Maria Hynes School of Social Sciences, Australian National University Robert Fagan School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Macquarie University While the term ‘information super-highway’ might be making a bit of a comeback in a sort of retro-camp lexicon, those who place faith…
FCJ-032 Mobile Technosoma: some phenomenological reflections on itinerant media devices
Ingrid Richardson Murdoch University, Western Australia Portable media devices and ‘wearable’ communications technologies are becoming both increasingly ubiquitous and personalised, penetrating and transforming everyday cultural practices and spaces, and further disrupting distinctions between private and public, ready-to-hand and telepresent interaction, actual and virtual environments. Such devices range from the standard mobile phone – which itself…
FCJ-031 Gendered, Bilingual Communication Practices: Mobile text-messaging among Hong Kong College Students
Angel Lin Faculty of Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong Mobile text messaging—variously known as SMS (short message service), text messaging, mobile e-mail, or texting—has become a common means of keeping in constant touch, especially among young people, in many parts of the world today. The research literature abounds with studies on the social, cultural,…
FCJ-030 Flash! Mobs in the Age of Mobile Connectivity *
Judith A. Nicholson Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montréal. The first flash mobbing is legendary now, though not uncontested. It happened in Manhattan, New York, between 7:27 pm and 7:37 pm on June 17, 2003. Summoned by text messages, emails and blog banter, a crowd of approximately 100 people gathered in the home furnishing section of…
Issue 06 – Mobility
Mobility, New Social Intensities, and the Coordinates of Digital Networks From stirrups to satellites, the invention of new forms of technical mobility has always created new intensities within the social. Each invention has also required a new idea of what it might be to be human, along with new tensions as older cultural practices and…
FCJ-029 Dawn of the Organised Networks
Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter At first glance the concept of “organised networks” appears oxymoronic. In technical terms, all networks are organised. There are founders, administrators, moderators and active members who all take up roles. Think also back to the early work on cybernetics and the “second order” cybernetics of Bateson and others. Networks consist…
FCJ-028 Learning and Insurgency in Creative Organisations
Paul Newfield and Timothy Rayner ‘When capital invests the whole of life, life appears as resistance’. Antonio Negri The concept of the “learning organisation” plays a pivotal role in contemporary management theory and practice.[1] In the idealised view of its advocates, the learning organisation is a mobile, self-deconstructing system, perfectly suited to the unstable environments…
FCJ-027 Speculations on a Marxist theory of the Virtual Revolution
Bob Hodge and Gabriela Coronado Everyone engaging with the theme of this special issue would agree on two premises: the post-Fordist global economy is radically new, with profound impacts on social organization and forms of consciousness; and new information technologies play a major role in this newness. In our article we will not add to…
FCJ-026 Postcard from the Edge: Autobiographical Musings on the Dis/organisations of the Multimedia Industry
Linda Leung This article is a critical reflection on the dot.com boom and the volatile industry, discipline and conditions of labour it has spawned. It offers an autobiographical insight into my past experiences as one of its labourers, as well as my current perspective as an academic responsible for cultivating these industry professionals. Autobiography offers…
FCJ-025 Precarious Playbour: Modders and the Digital Games Industry
Julian Kücklich The digital games industry comprises a significant part of the creative industries, with revenues comparable to the box office intakes of the Hollywood film industry. A recent report published by British market research firm Informa Media values the global games market in 2003 at 33.2 billion US dollars (Thomas, 2004). Loren Shuster notes:…
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