LauNov 11, 20184 min readCharacters & Relationships in ASMRI spend a lot of time thinking about ASMR and the fictions it creates and the relationships it stages, all of which we didn’t really have...
acstanfieldNov 11, 20182 min readVirtual Stillness and Intimacy in the Always-On ImageWhen reading Hodge’s ‘Vernaculars: The Always-On Image,’ I kept thinking of the recent show at the MCA, ‘I Was Raised on the Internet.’...
jremillardNov 11, 20182 min readThe Significance of the Selfie in the Always-On WorldWhen reading through Hodge's article, two questions stood out to me concerning the selfie: 1.) what is the significance of the always-on...
Jenn JentesNov 11, 20182 min readDeath of a Machine: Technological Dependence This week during class, someone up the fact that we, as a society, treat our technology like it is an extension of ourselves; we take...
ariannagassNov 11, 20182 min readBeyond CauliflowerIn “Are Some Things Unrepresentable?” Galloway articulates two theses about networks: “Data have no necessary visual form” and “only one...
kellytrieceNov 11, 20183 min readFirst Rule of Fight Club: the Impacts of False Security in Private GroupsWhen I joined Gross Girls Club over a year ago, I immediately understood the group as a ‘fight club’ for women. The rules were simple:...
clbeiersdorferNov 11, 20181 min read "In the Eyes of the Animal"I’d like to go a bit more in-depth with the usage of VR with the environment presented by Marshmallow Laser Feast. Marshmallow Laser...
margareteNov 10, 20184 min readThe war of image vs. text: are selfies gendered?I stumbled on this book called the Alphabet versus the Goddess, by Leonard Shlain, which I admit I’m not entirely sure what to make of...
Dana GlaserNov 10, 20183 min readThoughts on GenreIt seemed like several of us were working in our presentations to define the boundaries around genre. So I want to expand on the one...
benny vanderburghNov 10, 20184 min readThe accelerated, habitual changes of a networked, small-s sovereign ...This title for me is an attempt to recreate the melodramatic dialect of the recent-past era of blogging, specifically on LiveJournal,...
rissbNov 10, 20184 min readConsidering Sex and Gender in ASMRIn researching and exploring ASMR, I became intrigued by its relationship to sexuality and the apparent gendered and racialized aspects...
nashjenkinsNov 8, 20183 min readon wonderAs a young teenager, I was not athletic or otherwise cool by any metric of the term relevant to that moment. To the extent that I was...
gabojNov 7, 20183 min readIs There Something Orientalist About Wonder?This is meant to be a moment to consider Journey’s relationship to Orientalism, not as a critique of the game, but as an analysis of how...
ajbarnhardtNov 7, 20184 min readPleasures and Anxieties of the Networked RefrigeratorPreface: I have a propensity for starting conversations in my head then finishing them out loud. I assume this is why my final comments...
EvanNov 6, 20183 min readmark as unreadIn his discussion of GIF exchanges in instant message conversations, James Hodge remarks that “receiving a text message with a reaction...
David A. GarnerNov 5, 20184 min readCan Fore-Giveness move the Internet Beyond Neoliberalism? I Hope So.Wendy Hui Kyong Chun’s introduction to her book Updating to Remain the Same provides, in my opinion, a compelling critique on networked...
kameliaNov 5, 20183 min readThe Embedded Narratives of Horror Games Playing Gone Home this week and discussing other “walking simulator” games such as Dear Esther has kept me thinking about the role of...
Steven WymanNov 4, 20183 min readNarrative Architecture & Embedded Narrative, Still Relevant?In his article “Game Design as Narrative Architecture, Henry Jenkins describes a number of ways in which narrative can be inserted into...
asawariNov 4, 20182 min readDigital Spaces: A Looking Glass? In our readings for last week, I was particularly struck by Murray’s (1997) subsection on digital environments as being spatial. She...
LauNov 4, 20184 min readD&D in a Digital AgeThe pieces by Henry Jenkins and Janet Murray that we read this week, “Game Design as Narrative Architecture” and “From Additive to...
