Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference

2012 Co-Chair Brittany Paris returns to The New School to present "Otherworldly Currency" at this year's Digital Labor Conference: Sweatshops, Picket-lines, Barricades .
https://storify.com/DIGITALABOR/otherworldly-currency-brittany-paris

If you are in the New York Area, attend! http://digitallabor.org/

OTHERWORLDLY CURRENCY | Brittany Paris (with images) · DIGITALABOR “…it is easy to understand how activity of gold farming replicates real world patterns of capitalist development —the commoditization and division of labor seen for thousands of years and the globalization and offshoring seen in colonialism and industrialization and in the moves to expand capital in…

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POEM+MEDIA FUNDRAISER POEM+MEDIA presents dynamic poetry expressible through media. This showcase ranges from pieces of poetry performed through media such as film, audio experiments, to poets using media as a form of poetry in itself. All are welcome to attend this exceptional evening. This event is a fundraiser for the...

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It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (must, MUST read) Sociologist danah boyd's long-awaited first book, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, hits shelves today. boyd is one of the...

On wearable technology.

BBC World Service - Click, Wearable Technologies Google Glass, life-logging cameras and the future of wearable technologies

"The only natural future is that these digital devices become almost a part of us."

[Video Premiere] Make It Wearable Part 1: Human Communication | The... Part one defines wearables and includes interviews with experts such as a mobile journalist and "The Grandfather of Wearables"

Indigenous New Media Symposium - New York City - The New School The Indigenous New Media Symposium brings together Native American and First Nation media makers and creative activists to discuss how new media platforms are being used in the indigenous community to educate, organize, entertain, and advocate.

10 years later: How Facebook changed our lives In just a decade, the social media juggernaut has transformed the way we interact.

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ICYMI: On March 16 we'll be hosting POEM + MEDIA with . Save the date and check it out on Facebook: http://t.co/GlGMGsgmhZ

R. Luke DuBois Mines Data to Reveal Art The artist R. Luke DuBois takes a data-mining approach to his work, drawing on Google searches and surveillance technology for video and graphics pieces.

Light reading? But seriously, this CAA report on Fair Use looks fascinating.

http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/FairUseIssuesReport.pdf

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