FOSS Mapping as Alternative Media: The Case of OpenStreetMap (Part 2)
In July of 2004, Steve Coast, a 24-year-old British computer scientist and entrepreneur, started OpenStreetMap (OSM) with the objective of creating a free edita...
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Got Literacy?
“Literacy” is one of the English language words that has become more contested and opaque due to its spawning across diverse fields. Attached to dif...
The Circuit of Culture of the GPS Personal Navigation Device (Part 2)
III. A Complex Techno-militar-scientific-media System (production) After the World Wars of the 20th century and during the Cold Ward, the United States of Ameri...
The Circuit of Culture of the GPS Personal Navigation Device (Part 1)
The first time I heard about GPS enabled navigation devices was during the Persian Gulf War when television reporters highlighted the use of GPS technology by t...
The Sensorial in Early Tim Burton’s Feature Films
Grotesque, Gothic, and bizarre, are some of the adjectives that commonly describe the films directed by Tim Burton. Although their stories are often simple, Bur...
Children Culture, Software, and the Home Computer (Part 2)
Children-Computer Symbiosis and the Reinvention of Childhood Since the 1950s, researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and computer sc...
Children Culture, Software, and the Home Computer (Part 1)
The cover of BYTE magazine (the small systems journal) from November, 1976, is a color photograph of two children sat in front of what it seems to be a home com...