Category Archives: Media Theory

Mediation on Religion: Or How to Culture Jam Judaism on the Internet

By Shana | Published: December 3, 2009
To the people who have educated me and supported me along the way: Thanks. One other note: I have a lot of social data on this subject.  I did a whole 10 page research paper on a related parts of this Judaism, Culture Jamming, and how it affected funding decisions, with footnotes, in 2007.  Apparently if [...]
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Art Dova: Forms of Personhood on Facebook

By Shana | Published: November 8, 2009
Image by Getty Images via Daylife I would love to get the data of this project  back from Facebook.  I guess it belongs to me, but I’m not sure of that.  It also belongs to them.  It belongs to the collective as well.  I’m not sure.  Either way, it would help my Bachelors to get the [...]
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Critiques In Tech

By Shana | Published: October 10, 2009
Image by qthomasbower via Flickr In effort to catch up on posts I am thinking about (I still need to finish Techstars boulder, write up about the last NYTech Meetup which I will have to watch post the event, and read up on all the crazy news about ATT&T and mobile phones…and school), I thought I [...]
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Two Disparate Veiws of Tech

By Shana | Published: September 22, 2009
Two Stories.  I’ve been thinking about them a lot because I recently finished “In The Beginning was the Command Line.” (Which is slightly more apropos for two weeks from now, but never-mind.) (The 2004 response from Slashdot, also great.) I highly recommend the essay, which can be gotten from Neal Stephenson’s website, here.  It is a [...]
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Quiet, For We Live in Public, yet I live slightly in Fear

By Shana | Published: September 12, 2009
Image via Wikipedia I saw We Live In Public @ IFC last Sunday night.  It’s closed now.
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WSJ on Web Money, scary thoughts.

By Shana | Published: September 10, 2009
So I was sent this link yesterday because of my love of Real Time Economics http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/09/09/the-currency-revolution/ It’s worth a read and discussion.  There discuss two different virtual currencies.  Two are mentioned- Serious, and Ven.
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The Matryokshka Doll Principle

By Shana | Published: August 13, 2009
Image by Jeff Belmonte via Flickr The Matryoshka Doll Principle, Chinese Box Design, however you would call it. This principle will be a guiding force for the rest of your career.  It forces you into a quality product.  I see it all the time in products, particularly tech products that we all crave, as a technique [...]
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The Artist’s/Coder education: Blind Contour

By Shana | Published: August 4, 2009
Image via Wikipedia I wanted do a series about the art of design, rather than the more practical humdrum side. Most people find it very difficult to think creatively this way.  It takes a lot of practice, beyond native intelligence.  It is not a matter of just knowing how the facts work, but also a matter of [...]
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A Precursory Look at Reed’s Law

By Shana | Published: July 28, 2009
Image by Getty Images via Daylife So for the past few days, on Fred Wilson’s blog, there have been comment after comment about what to about, well comments. A good deal of this has to do with what to do with Newspapers in the Internet ecosystem, and their relationship to their readers, especially as their print medium [...]
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The Internet is the New Computer

By Shana | Published: July 10, 2009
Most denizens of the Internet often fail to realize that, compared to the many machines we run the Internet on, the Internet is very young.  To give a fair analogy- the Internet in human age could be the child or the grandchild of the first computer, the Zuse Z3, made in 1941.  The Internet, in [...]
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