Communication

Someone is trying to tell you something

In Berlin, Communication, Graffiti, Language, Screens on 21 November 2007 with 1 comment

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 [...]

Pasta&Vinegar&Stephen Graham

In Communication, Infrastructure, Innovation, Internet on 11 October 2007 with no comments

Pasta&Vinegar neatly summarizes Stephen Graham’s “Beyond the ‘dazzling light’: from dreams of transcendence to the ‘remediation’ of urban life.”

TXTual Healing

In Art, Communication, New York, Screens on 9 October 2007 with no comments

TXTual Healing: the text message as street theater. “Jessie come quick! Terminator is on!”

Best sentence I read this morning

In Communication, Geography, Infrastructure, Internet on 8 October 2007 with no comments

“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.)
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First Monday’s issue on urban screens

In Architecture, Communication, Film & Television, Screens, Social Media on 6 October 2007 with no comments

Billboards, posters, graffiti-covered walls, jumbotrons, cellphones: First Monday’s special issue on urban screens.