User:Yiorgos Bagakis/Essays/Rough outline essay1

Rough Outline for First Trimester's Essay

>>This first trimester compilation of readings focused on The Users of digital Media. We looked at the various modes of engaging with these new digital tools and environments.

/political consciousness generated through digital media

/How users become Authors

/Amateur user/consumer being involved in the creation of new technological products/innovation

/Users Individuals as part of Virtual communities (where rape, or political debate is possible..)

/Users assume that they can overcome the tyranny of geography through cyberspace

/Users as: Digital Natives/Digital Immigrants

>>The Practice of Everyday Life (Michel De Certeau)

The effects of the break between a place appropriated as one's own place and the other (place, owner) : (1) A triumph of place over time,

(2) panoptic practice - objects that can be observed,

(3) power of knowledge - transforming uncertainties of history into readable spaces.

>>These key terms that seem to hold the same meaning:

Place/Space What is space

What is place

How time defines a place

How time defines space

Internet time/Swatch internet watches (1998)

The Virtual Window (Anne Friedberg, MIT press

>>Habermas:

Public sphere (does the internet serve as a place with such characteristics?)

>>Marc Augé coined the phrase "non-place" to refer to places of transience that do not hold enough significance to be regarded as "places". Examples of a non-place would be a motorway, a hotel room, an airport or a supermarket

/Is the internet a non-place? /Is the internet a space with non-places?

>>Internet Cafes as not places >> Link the speed show art exhibition format here.

>>""in a world of visual images once something is put in front of me and I see it, it becomes part of my memory, part of my brain, so I should have the right to copy it" " discuss...

A place as private property/ public vs private space and how this is affected by internet. eg.

>>file sharing

>>people buying net.art websites becoming net.art collectors)