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  1. Walk This Way: Mobile Narrative as Composed Experience

    Raley examines mobile narratives, contrasting narratives that are simply narratives that are delivered to mobile phones, such as Japanese cell phone novels, with narrative experiences that are specific to their medial situation. That is "narrative that emphasizes the exploration of place and locality but is not strictly annotative." Rayley identifies three key terms of GPS and SMS-based narrative practice: experience, movement, and environment. Rita sees the participant in a mobile narrative as playing a function in the Nelsonian hypertext sense of branching, "performing on request." Having established a categorical frame, Raley reads a number of locative narratives including Hundekopf,  Itinerant, Ping, and 34N188W.

    Scott Rettberg - 18.04.2011 - 11:49

  2. Responsive Environments

    This paper introduces the concept of a responsive environ- ment which perceives human behavior and responds with intelligent auditory and visual feedback. Several exhibits of responsive environments, implemented by the author, com- bining computer graphics, video projection and two-way video communication are described. VIDEOPLACE, an evolving exhibit which defines a conceptual telecommuni- cation environment uniting geographically separated people in a common visual experience, is discussed at some length. Based on these examples a new art form of composed man- machine interaction is defined. Finally, practical applica- tions are suggested for the fields of education, psychology and psychotherapy.

    (Source: Author's abstract)

    Original publication info: From AFPIS 46 National Computer Conference Proceedings, 423-33. Montvale, NJ: AFIPS Press, 1977. Rpt. in The New Media Reader, 2003.

    Scott Rettberg - 18.04.2011 - 14:00

  3. Against Information: Reading (in) the Electronic Waste Land

    Digital approaches to information processing foreground the unique interdependence between
    knowledge and its representation that has been characteristic of western epistemology for the past five centuries. The essential role representation formats play in modern knowledge construction is generally accepted in all disciplines, attributing, learning and intellectual progress less to one's direct engagement with actual phenomena, and more to notational structures that convey its formulation. In this paradigm, knowledge follows exclusively from its theoretical articulation, not the other way around.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.06.2012 - 16:53

  4. Sauti ya wakulima: "The Voice of the Farmers": The creation of a community memory through appropriated media

    Sauti ya wakulima: "The Voice of the Farmers": The creation of a community memory through appropriated media

    Scott Rettberg - 04.11.2012 - 11:30

  5. Locative Audio Play

    The paper describes and reflects upon a research and development project specifically related to a sound installation – Listener (Hoem 2014) – where the purpose has been to examine artistic possibilities when staging an auditive user experience, via micro positioned mobile devices. Listener is augmenting an existing environment, adding a fictional layer, using sound as the only expression. The auditive text is experienced through headphones, connected to a location aware mobile unit, which is positioned by “beacons” (Bluetooth LE transmitters).

    Listener tries to relocate an environment, from Bergen railway station to the Bergen University College’s premises, using sound. To this environment we have added six fictional characters, and the user can listen to these characters’ cell phone calls. The text has to be experienced by moving around, as the sounds corresponds to the user’s position and orientation.

    Hannah Ackermans - 27.11.2015 - 15:25

  6. Cave Gave Game: Subterranean Space as Videogame Place

    Jerz and Thomas identify our fascination with natural cave spaces, and then chart that fascination as it descends into digital realms, all in order to illustrate the importance of “the cave” as a metaphor for how we interact with our environment.

    (Source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/cave)

    Malene Fonnes - 22.09.2017 - 10:31

  7. Review of Stacy Alaimo's Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self

    Beginning his review by reflecting on the book’s cover art, John Bruni speculates that a punk aesthetic runs throughout Alaimo’s posthuman environmentalism. Providing brief treatments of each chapter, he argues that the book’s trans-corporeal understanding of the relationship between bodies and places disrupts “the very heart of what we know about ourselves.”

    (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/punk)

    Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 12:47

  8. Finding the Human in "the messy, contingent, emergent mix of the material world": Embodiment, Place, and Materiality in Stacy Alaimo's Bodily Natures

    In this review Veronica Vold charts the posthuman environmental ethic in Stacy Alaimo’s Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self and notes how the text draws together issues of race, (dis)ability, and the environment in a way that disrupts the boundaries between bodies and places.

    (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/bodily) 

    Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 12:57

  9. Observing the Observers of Systems and Environments

    Linda Brigham reviews the Spring and Fall 1995 issues of Cultural Critique.

    Where is the real you? Behind the eyeballs, right; the center of a panoptical cinema, your virtual head spinning around like Linda Blair’s in The Exorcist. Watching the world go by.

    tye042 - 05.10.2017 - 13:24

  10. Scared Straight

    Carol Stabile reviews Our Stolen Future.

    Since the publication of Paul de Kruif’s Microbe Hunters in 1926, the genre of “scientific detective” stories has enjoyed a quiet but consistent level of popularity. Typically, these stories have functioned as celebrations of (or ideological guarantors for) the virtues of the scientific enterprise. This genre, however, properly belongs to an earlier era in the twinned history of science and industrialization: an era armed with certainty, rationality, and faith in scientific progress.

    tye042 - 05.10.2017 - 14:50

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