Someone is trying to tell you something
Someone is trying to tell you something: written on the city.
Language in Common posts snippets of conversation found on urban screens. Is most graffiti in English? I remember riding around Berlin and seeing a disproportionate amount of graffiti written in English. Maybe English looks better scrawled across a brick wall and German looks better in illuminated manuscripts.
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Pasta&Vinegar&Stephen Graham
Pasta&Vinegar neatly summarizes Stephen Graham’s “Beyond the ‘dazzling light’: from dreams of transcendence to the ‘remediation’ of urban life.”
TXTual Healing
TXTual Healing: the text message as street theater. “Jessie come quick! Terminator is on!”
Best sentence I read this morning
“It is ironic that, even as the expansion of the Internet led people to declare the ‘end of geography,’ the Internet continued to be understood largely through metaphors of geographic place, for example, superhighways, teleports, server farms, home pages.”
(Zook, Matthew. 2005. The Geographies of the Internet. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 40: 53-78.)
What other metaphors of place do we use to understand the Internet?
First Monday’s issue on urban screens
Billboards, posters, graffiti-covered walls, jumbotrons, cellphones: First Monday’s special issue on urban screens.