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Soeben einem interessanten Vortrag im Rahmen der Creative Industries Conference des Asia-Pacific Forum Berlin beigewohnt.

T H E M A
Imagined Networks

D O Z E N T I N
Wendy Chun, Associate Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, US

H I G H L I G H T (Nr.1)
Ein mir bislang unbekanntes Video (Hong Kong Bus Uncle) vom April 2006, das in Hong Kong eine riesige Diskussion zum Thema Kommunikation im öffentlichen Raum auslöste. Macht nachdenklich …

S O N S T I G E R   C O N T E N T (laut Ankündigung)
From high-speed financial networks that erode national sovereignty to networking sites like “facebook.com” that transform the meaning of the word “friend,” networks are not only the content of society, but also allegedly its structure and message. To exaggerate slightly, the answer to all questions of what’s new—politically, culturally,  militarily—about our current era reduce to: it’s the network, but “it’s the network” is appallingly short on details and assumes that we experience technology directly, rather than feel its impact through the ways it facilitates our every day actions. This lecture argues that networks are imagined—they are not simply or directly experienced, and that the imagining of these networks is fundamental to the mission of the Creative Industries.

L E S S O N S   L E A R N E D
Bedürfen noch der Reflexion …

mobile, kommunikation, kultur, china

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