Micro-Ethnographies of the Screen: The Supermarket
by: Dan Leopard / University of Southern California
Dan Leopard considers the screens we ignore as we shop for food.
Tag: Technology
Sim City or Dream City? Computer Imaging in the Reconstruction of Iraq
by: Clare Bratten / Middle Tennessee State University
Technology is affording visual and virtual realization of a new Iraq.
Soap in the Chocolate Bar
by: Tom McCourt / Fordham University
Does Apple’s new iPod Nano represent greater freedom for digital music users?
An Analog Form in a Digital Box: Sitcoms, Mitcoms, and New Media Pliancy
by: Judd Ethan Ruggill and Ken S. McAllister / University of Arizona
Everyone Frags Raymond — When Computer Games & TV Forms Collide
How Much Do I Love myTunes? Allow Me to List the Ways…
by: Tim Anderson / Denison University
With the proliferation of mp3 players, CD burners and cheap CD-Rs the art of the mix is practiced now more than ever.
Hegemony on a Hard Drive
by: Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University
Improving the relationship between the creative impulse and the digital environment.
The Trunk in the Attic, or, Designing a Digital Legacy
by: Robert Schrag / North Carolina State University
Communication is, and always has been, a negotiation; technology and society parrying and thrusting, demand and counter, proposition and accommodation.
Transform Me, Please…
by: Tara McPherson / University of Southern California
I have to confess that the chance to ‘look ten years younger’ in ten days has its appeal.
My Big Flat Screen TV
by: Sharon Strover / University of Texas at Austin
Our household finally succumbed to the lure of the big flat screen TV. I wonder what we’ve brought into the house that may not be as obvious as the big screen itself.
Desperately Seeking Bandwidth
by: Thomas Streeter / University of Vermont
Broadband internet had chased me down into the privacy of my home. And then it seduced me.
MGM, DVD, and “TV”
by: Thomas Schatz / University of Texas-Austin
Could DVD be the force that finally ushers in HD?
“Print the Money”: Mediating the 2004 Elections
by: Anna Everett / University of California at Santa Barbara
The title of this essay derives from a telling remark made by ubiquitous network news super star journalist Tim Russert following the third Presidential Debate on October 13, 2004 . . .