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New book on ‘Design Ethnography’ by Nicolas Nova
New book on ‘Design Ethnography’ by Nicolas Nova looks good.
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Call for Papers: Extrapolation special issue on Indigenous Futurism
jhameia: Extrapolation special issue on Indigenous Futurism, edited by Grace L. Dillon, (Anishinaabe), Michael Levy, and John Rieder. In the last decade and a half, a number of scholars have explored the way that SF throughout the last century and a half has borne a close relationship to colonial, and later postcolonial history, discourses, and ideologies.…
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One Week of Harassment on Twitter
I am grateful for femfreq’s perseverance. I will continue to attempt to be a better ally. femfreq: Ever since I began my Tropes vs Women in Video Games project, two and a half years ago, I’ve been harassed on a daily basis by irate gamers angry at my critiques of sexism in video games. It…
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“Mechanistic muses are expanding their domain to encompass every facet of creative activity.” In this article published in the June 1965 issue of Playboy, Bell Labs engineer, communications satellite pioneer and science fiction writer John R. Pierce introduces the work done in computer music, literature, film, and visual art, and issues an invitation to artists…
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paperbits: azspot: PaperLike: 13.3″ E Ink Monitor Want.
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welcometobusinesstown: new #businesstown resident: The Ghost Blogger /
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chartier: Leigh Alexander had a chat with a GamerGater at a recent talk, got to the heart of the matter: The idea that someone can be objective when they’re talking about an emotional creative medium is fallacious. (if you have to, there’s no shame in looking up the definition of fallacious) You can’t offer an…
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laughingsquid: Yuki-Taro, An Adorable Self-Guided Robotic Snowplow That Turns Snow Into Compact Bricks
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alexainslie: A Brief History of User Interface (Source: http://alexainslie.com/)
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shrinkrants: GREGORY BATESON “It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step…