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I am excited to read about the forthcoming (fall 2010) book from Finish media theorist Jussi Parikka, Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology. Here's the info that he posted on his blog about the book:

Good post and discussion on Basalla's 1998 book 'The Evolution of Technology':

There is an interesting discussion going on about how the flow of data moving around the internet gives it a 'shape' and what that shape means. You can see this discussion written up in an interesting article in the New York Times; 'Scientists Strive to Map the Shape-Shifting Net'. So what is mean by the 'shape' of the Internet?

I'm happy to say that I am going to be talking at the 2010 Virt3c@Hull, at Hull University.  Keynote speakers include; Gabriella Coleman on 'Cabals, Crisis, and Conflict on the Virtual Frontier' (Friday) and Mathieu O’Neil on 'Theory and Practice of Online Research: Power, Expertise, Critique' (Sat).  My talk is part of the session entitled 'Conflicts in Open & Free Software Communities' on Sat 20th March, 12.00- 1.45:

I have written a guest post on the p2p foundation blog...

When it is a real network...I have been using Actor Network Theory (aka ANT, not to be confused with ANTS, the very interesting p2p project) in my research (I'd recommend this and this if you are interested) and yet the 'networks' of ANT are not necessarily networks at all, but are networks in the other sense of the wo

Defining what a network is, is a huge topic.  It is one I engage with to some extent in my research and you can boil a network down to two components - links and nodes.  The beginnings and ends of the network is a more complex matter.  For example with the Internet, it is less one big network and more a series of networks united by common protocols.  (There is a good discussion of mapping networks using Actor-Network Theory in chapter 4 of Murdoch's book Post-Structuralist Geography.  But networks ar

There is an interesting post on the blog Why Evolution in True - interesting because it points to an interesting idea for those of us looking to biology for tools in other realms (such as media in my case aka media ecology).  First here is a quote from the post;

OK, so a couple of the concepts that are key to understanding - and that came up in a cross-faculty discussion at UWE t'other day - was the idea of where you can draw the line between the human and the technological.