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...
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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...
Outer Space and the Home/Personal Computer
The history of the personal computer revolution has several myths. Some of them focus on individual geniuses (hackers, nerds, or hippies), others on single mach...
Streams of Now: Twitter’s Real-Time Conversational Environment and the Network Society
“Diffuse with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land” (Samuel Morse, 1938) In January 27 of 2006, after 155 ...
Power, cultural industries, and popular culture
The relationship between power and culture is at the core of several sociological and communication studies. In order to understand how mass modern societies st...