December 2011
42 posts
Disabled Bodies and the Parable of the Good Robot →
Photo by Howard Schatz
My post today comes from a class on ableism and disabled bodies that I taught earlier this past semester in my Social Problems course. Its inception came from the…
xkcd Comic Reveals Common Misunderstanding of... →
This xkcd comic humorously highlights a seeming tension in WikiLeaks’ so-called “anti-secrecy agenda:” While secrecy facilitates the systemic abuses of institutional power that…
#HipsterStudies: Some Thoughts on Hipsters (with... →
A few of us here at Cyborgology have a running joke going about #HipsterStudies, so I thought I would compile a couple comics that likewise intellectualize this subcultural movement. The first, sent…
Technologically Embodied Privilege →
Technologies are, by nature, biased. They are biased by the humans who create them. They are biased by the cultures in which they are produced. They are biased by the perceived needs of…
Digital Native: Twin Manifestations or Co-Located... →
Review of ‘Digital Natives and the Return of the Local Cause’ by Anat Ben-David. Essay from the Digital AlterNatives with a Cause? book collective, published by Centre for Internet…
LinkedIn Rolls Out Polling for Groups →
I moderate a group on LinkedIn.com for the New England Sociological Association. While I don’t have an immediate use for the feature, I’m sure that it will come in handy, or that some member…
Can Occupy Survive a Winter Without Tents? →
photo by nathan jurgenson, taken at Occupy Toronto, November, 2011
At exactly the moment when tents are disappearing, when, at least for the winter, Occupy is trading long-term…
APNewsBreak: Facebook Aims To Help Prevent Suicide... →
Does this strike you as helpful or unhelpful?
…[I]f a friend spots a suicidal thought on someone’s page, he [sic] can report it to Facebook by clicking a link next to the comment. Facebook then…
Cyborgology Weekly Roundup →
Picture of the week is of Victorian audio surveillance. Note the listening device taking on the form of an ear. Augmented reality predates electronics and has come to take on creative…
Cyborgology Editors Discuss Technology and #Occupy →
Cyborgology editors Nathan Jurgenson and PJ Rey on WYPR (Baltimore’s NPR affiliate) discussing technology and the Occupy movement: Click here to listen to the audio.
Waving at the Machines →
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This is a video from a talk given by James Bridle, one of the main forces behind the New Aesthetic Blog, about the ways in which he is seeing the…
The Hipster: Folk Devil of the New Millennium? →
This post is somewhat of a stretch, but I think it remains applicable nonetheless. Below I have embedded three video clips, each dealing with “the hipster” as a relatively recent subcultural form…
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WatchMashable is using Storify to curate the breaking story of today’s shootings at VA Tech.
Internet Memes: The Mythology of Augmented Society... →
There is a fascinating exploration of memes at Cyborgology, though not one for the faint of heart.
Bloggers here at Cyborgology have explored the internet meme in interesting ways. Most…
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Occupy Wall Street and Jacques Ellul’s Technique →
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Start at 13:42 – 15:37 for images of Zuccotti Park being dismantled
The clearing of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators from the streets of various…
Internet Memes: The Mythology of Augmented Society →
Bloggers here at Cyborgology have explored the internet meme in interesting ways. Most notably, David Banks analyzed the performative meme, arguing for its function in cultural…
A Brief Summary of Actor Network Theory →
Bruno Latour. French Theorist and Main Architect of Actor Network Theory Photo Credit: Denis Rouvre on TheHindu.com
There are many theories that seek to clarify the relationship…
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Robert Reich: The Rebirth of Social Darwinism →
Read more to see how the views of William Graham Sumner figured into the Gilded Age and into the current field of GOP candidates.
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What kind of society, exactly, do modern Republicans want? I’ve been listening to Republican candidates in an effort to discern an overall philosophy, a broadly-shared vision, an ideal picture of America.
They say they want a smaller government but that...
4.7 Degrees: Global Connection and Local... →
Facebook Inc. and researchers from the University of Milan recently released a study showing that Facebook users are linked by only 4.7 degrees of separation. This is a significant…