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Marketing & New Technologies (course outline (2011/12))
Topics and Readings Week 1 (20 January 2012) – Introduction to the Course In recent years, there has been a lot of discussion about the “internet revolution” or the “social media revolution”. These discussions principally argue that technological developments are shaping how we conduct our affairs, including how we organise our daily interactions as well…
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The Challenge of Technology Shabbat
About a year ago, I came across a documentary about the Barbie Doll, entitled The Tribe. The film links the history of Barbie to the question of what it means to be Jewish today. I was intrigued not only by the content of the film but also by its composition, a mixture of old and new,…
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Visiting Chrome Weblab at the Science Museum in London
There are various attempts by science museums to bring to life some of the hidden ways in which the Internet works. When I visited the Science Museum in Chicago about 10 years ago there was an exhibit where I took a photograph of myself that then was transmitted to the other end of the gallery…
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Google and Academic Research
The other day I was reading an academic paper on an iPad; the paper had a number of references to Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’. Halfway through the paper my desktop signalled the arrival of an email. On opening the email I had to look twice – the publisher Penguin had sent me a message saying…
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Meeting the ‘"Anti-Christ of Silicon Valley" – Discussion with Andrew Keen
Last night, May 24th, I was one of 20 lucky participants at a discussion organised by Milo Yiannopolous and The Kernel Magazine at London’s Adam Street Private Members Club. The event was invitation-only and limited to subscribers of the Nutshell,…
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Just out! Symbolic Interaction, Special Issue on "Interaction"
Symbolic Interaction (2011; Vol.34, No.3/Summer) Special Issue “Interaction” 1. Interaction and Symbolic Interactionism(pp. 315-318) Dirk vom Lehn, Will Gibson DOI: 10.1525/si.2011.34.3.315 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/si.2011.3…
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Google and Academic Research
The other day I was reading an academic paper on an iPad; the paper had a number of references to Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’. Halfway through the paper my desktop signalled the arrival of an email. On opening the email I had to look twice – the …
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Human-robot interaction at the Computer Lab in Cambridge – visiting Laurel Riek
In Star Trek Next Generation the android Data is on the constant search for techniques that make him more human. His creator, Dr Soong, has made him look human, if a little pale, but what the particular techniques and what the particular rationale…
