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Jill Walker Rettberg video on blogging which is really useful for networked media.

(Quoted from the overview of this book part of the Phaidon Themes and Movement, art book series): 'The first comprehensive international survey of art in the myriad forms of electronic media, including light, robotics, networks, virtual reality and the web.'

A critical perspective on materiality that I think is worth following up more. (quote from blog post on the book Time-Critical Media) 'But definitely new German media studies and archaeology has a lot to say to the problems of materiality of technical media.'

(quoted description of selection of essays from Utrecht University): 'The rich selection of essays gathered in this volume are a survey of cutting-edge research in the field of new media studies as well as a sampling of the type of research performed at the New Media and Digital Culture program at the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. The blending of these two perspectives is undoubtedly one of the most attractive aspects of this book, which demonstrates a strong sense of pedagogy and clarity in each of its contributions, while craving for presenting new insights in a scientific domain that is strongly opened to contextual and cultural analysis, yet for the same reason also difficult to handle or at least to circumscribe.'

(quote from blog post on Wolfgang Ernst's talk): 'Ernst’s talk on media archaeology as a method and a theory really introduced the various radical implications that his brand of doing media archaeology has. I have already before pointed towards the points about “operative diagrammatics” or media history that his take on the past and present media encompasses, and the talk outlined well the positions — even provocative – where he wants to place media studies. What the audience was left with was a number of positions and claims/challenges to tackle.'

(quote): The Dead Media Research Lab begins with the 250 million media technologies that are discarded each year and proposes creative research into the intelligent repurposing and reuse of these devices. The lab's goal is to rethink and challenge the mindset of “planned obsolescence" of consumer electronics. In addition, the lab believes that studying historical forms of media is useful in understanding the dynamics of how older communication technologies shift, change and remediate over time.

This is a good example of a user-generated content for an online video project. Useful for the PROD! project and developing approaches towards online video aesthetics with students in this studio course.

'Archived Blogosphere' using numerous screenshots lined up like a videowall.

Anne Helmond writes about Michael Stevenson's essay on the history of the blogosphere.