Submitted by Andrew Chen on Sun, 12/18/2011 - 8:39pm
Topic area:
Computer Culture (Chen et al)
Session Chair:
Joseph Chaney
In this round table, a variety of scholars from within the area of Computer Culture will discuss the present that they see within the area of Computer Culture, as well as the future that they anticipate and/or envision within the area of Computer Culture.
Submitted by Andrew Chen on Sun, 12/18/2011 - 8:37pm
Presentation Title:
Computer Culture: Present and Future
In this round table, a variety of scholars from within the area of Computer Culture will discuss the present that they see within the area of Computer Culture, as well as the future that they anticipate and/or envision within the area of Computer Culture.
Submitted by jjohnston on Thu, 12/15/2011 - 9:21pm
Presentation Title:
Sucked In: The Present Moment of Internet Dystopia
As the first truly global communications system and information repository, the Internet has inspired utopian visions of new possibility from its first moments of inception and construction. Although initially funded by ARPA (the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency) and not separated from military sponsorship and oversight until 1983, the Internet quickly became the scientific community's ideal medium for the quick exchange of research data and reports.
Submitted by Aimee Knight on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 1:03pm
Presentation Title:
Seeing Through Mediums: Insight Into the Status Update
A beautiful sunset – captured instantly with Hipstamtic and shared globally. An impromptu concert in the streets – posted in realtime to Facebook. The social web facilitates the growing trend toward more mediated (indirect) and sharable experience.
When Dream Machines Come True: Re-reading Ted Nelson's Speculative Non-Fiction
In the dominant history of networked personal computing, Ted Nelson is remembered for introducing "hypermedia" in Computer Lib/Dream Machines, a pair of books self-published as a single back-to-back volume in 1974.
