Annenberg Center for Communication¹s netPublics Reseach Group and the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication

Cuban poster saying: “Freedom for Angela Davis.”, 1971

I arrived a couple of hours late for a day-long series of presentations on what the ICT is doing these days.

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Bruce Sterling is here this evening to talk at our IMD seminar.

I’ve been adding somewhat anonymous Flickr “users” who seem to be using their images as a collaborative research effort. I guess. My favorite currently is FreedomLab.org’s Flickr stream. Shared collaboratory, I guess. Many of there images are these semantic diagrams — showing trends reports, Venn Diagrams of memes…

This “Lab Notes” dispatch from the Berkeley College of Engineering resonated because I have been thinking about the military industrial light and magic complex. That is, the knitting together into shared sensibilities a cohesive semantic blob that makes it difficult to distinguish military-entertainment-games-illusi…

Google military industrial light and magic complex.

I recently found out that the acronym soup of the Computer Human Interaction ([w:CHI]) cauldron has been stewing the WYSIWIS (‘what you see is what I see’) concept for sometime now. I’ve been doing anonymous reviews of papers for CHI2006 and stumbled across the acronym and it got me to thinking about WYSIWIS for pre…