Martin Ryder’s Luddism and the Neo-Luddite Reaction is an excellent resource on luddism – extensive and current (last updated May 2004).

I have just read a chapter in Culture and Technology (Murphie and Potts).
The chapter I read is called “Theoretical frameworks” and it contains a discussion of technological determinism, cultural materialism, machinic thought and other things. I am very impressed with the overview and the references which the chapter gives. The authors point to the importance [...]

I am surprised to find out that GPRS works effortlessly in England. I just do the same dial-up procedure (which takes a few seconds) as I do in Sweden and I am online. Great!

Right now a very intresting seminar is about to start in HUMlab.
[25 maj kl.15.10]
Massively Multiplayer Online Games as Learning Environments
Constance A. Steinkuehler, University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~steinkuehler/
Unfortunately I cannot be present in the lab but I was there this morning and I have talked to people after that. And 20 minutes before the seminar I entered the [...]

It is not a new feeling but surprisingly unexpected. Having worked intensively for some time I am now in transit. I have a rather extended wait at Arlanda, Stockholm, and I am just enjoying having in-between time. The world changes.

In an article in today’s Dagens Nyheter, a new Ph.D. thesis on computer games and children’s ability to distinguish between real and virtual is presented. The title of the thesis is “Datorspelandets mening. Bortom id

Today is a public holiday in Sweden. We have had hail and a bit of sunshine. Very beautiful sky right now. Still rather light (11 pm).
I have just browsed through two official documents (both published in 2003):
1) The Swedish Research Council’s analysis of the humanities and social sciences (current state and development/strategy 2005-2008). “M

I have just finished reading Susan Herring’s article “Slouching toward the ordinary: current trends in computer-mediated communication” (2004, New Media and Society, 6(1):26-36).
It is a useful overview and it poses several interesting questions. Herring discusses development over time. “Despite the availability of increasingly sophisticated multimedia protocols, CMC remains predominantly grounded in ‘old’ textual practices” [...]

I just found this site on sousveillance poetry and maybecams. Don’t if this is new or old but it is definitely different/strange and interesting – not least in relation to the datamining workshop we are planning.

We are planning a pre-project (and a student project) on visual art without the involvement of eye-sight. Visual art for blind people? Maybe. We are going to use our haptic-visual unit and there is a cognitive science student who is going to create a haptic representation of three pieces of visual art. We have just [...]