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Launch Event:
Computational Culture, Issue Two,
Virality, Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks, by Tony D. Sampson
Evil Media, by Matthew Fuller & Andrew Goffey
22nd October
6pm
Room RHB 342
Goldsmiths
New Cross
London, University of London
SE14 6NW
Free, all welcome
To celebrate these publications, informal presentations will be made by the
authors of Virality and Evil Media and contributors to Computational Culture.
'Computational Culture' is an online open-access peer-reviewed journal of
inter-disciplinary enquiry into the nature of cultural computational objects,
practices, processes and structures. The new issue presents articles by
Carlos Barreneche, Jennifer Gabrys, Robert W. Gehl & Sarah Bell, Shintaro
Miyazaki, Bernhard Rieder, Bernard Stiegler, Annette Vee and reviews by
Chiara Bernardi, Kevin Hamilton, Boris Ružić, Felix Stalder and an anonymous
contributor.
In 'Virality' Tony D. Sampson presents a contagion theory fit for the age of
networks. Unlike memes and microbial contagions, Virality does not restrict
itself to biological analogies and medical metaphors. It instead points
toward a theory of contagious assemblages, events, and affects. For Sampson,
contagion is not necessarily a positive or negative force of encounter; it is
how society comes together and relates.
[University of Minnesota Press]
'Evil Media' invites the reader to explore and understand the abstract
infrastructure of the present day. From search engines to flirting
strategies, from the value of institutional stupidity to the malicious
minutiae of databases, this book shows how the devil is in the details. The
title takes the imperative “Don’t be evil” and asks, what would be done any
differently in contemporary computational and networked media were that maxim
reversed.
[The MIT Press]
In 'Sensing an Experimental Forest', her article for 'Computational Culture'
2, Jennifer Gabrys discusses fieldwork conducted at an environmental sensor
test site, the James Reserve in California. The use of wireless sensor
networks to study environmental phenomena is an increasingly prevalent
practice, and ecological applications of sensors have been central to the
development of wireless sensor networks that now extend to numerous
‘participatory’ applications.
Virality
http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/virality
Evil Media
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12995
Computational Culture
http://www.computationalculture.net/
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