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overwhelmed by the YouTube

Jan 23, 2007 //

In answer to the question “why all this musing on campaign videos?”, if all goes as planned, I start my PhD studies in the fall. Provided I go the anthro route, I’ll be looking at citizen journalism and American politics. Internet video broadly, and YouTube specifically, play an important role in that mix.

Honestly, the more I begin to explore YouTube, the more complicated things get. It’s a mish mash. And the threads that are emerging from it are so varied I’m not quite sure where to start. All of it complicates this question of what exactly a citizen journalist is. There’s a lot of citizen commentators and folks who post clips from news networks. And activists.

I’m just not quite sure about “journalists.”

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barcamp: rochester

Jul 11, 2006 //
bar camp: rochester

Vas is dis barcamp?
BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.

Vere and Ven is dis barcamp?
Big Auditorium on the First Floor
B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
Rochester Institute of Technology
20 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623

 July 14th 10:00 AM until LATE EVENING

More Info
https://barcamp.org/BarCampRochester

I just found out about it and will be attending for a few hours. Should be pretty interesting. Anyone whose got time should stop by.

And yes, I did scale a .gif — we shall never talk of it again.

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lots happening that I still can’t blog about

Jun 21, 2006 //

Sorry friends and readers, I still have to wait on lots of news. Hopefully by weeks end things will be set and I can start posting about it.

In the mean time, I’m diving very deep into mash-ups — media were multiple "tracks" (typically audio, but also video) are juxtaposed against each other. Take for example DJ Mei Lwun’s Sweet Home Country Grammar — Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Sweet home Alabama meets Nelly’s Country Grammar. This also ties into a lot of the content that’s popping up on YouTube and on MySpace. In particular I’m thinking about this in terms of new forms of "literacy" and "writing," as well as their roles as emblems of identity. More to come on all of that.

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exchange of ideas

Jun 12, 2006 //

Update (6/16)
I just found out that the Exchange link was broken. The current exchange site is: http://www.newcloud.com/exchange

I just found out that Anthro grad students at Chicago have started their own online publication called Exchange. I gave it a quick look over and it seems pretty interesting — I guess I should note that interesting all depends on whether or not you are interested in anthropology to begin with.

As far as my claim of understanding Peircian Semiotics, perhaps that was a little premature. I finally seem to "get" the notion/relation of object, sign (and the corresponding ground relationship betwixt the two), interpretant, and the vectors of determination and representation. I also now have a better handle on why it fits so well with linguistics (as well as how it works differently than Saussurian Semiotics). The only problem is all of that is currently in my head and I still a ways away from being able to explain it coherently. One step closer at least.

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i got your interpretant baby

Jun 9, 2006 //

Today, at approximately 3.20pm est, I finally understood Peircian semiotics — something that has been vexing me for the better part of a year and a half. Then Dre found out that her job was renewed for another year.

We celebrated these milestones with pho and a Hitchcock movie. Life is good.

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