New Media Studies Autoblog, Summer 07

I have to admit, sitting at a computer is not my thing.  But, it never hurts to step outside the box once in a while.  It keeps your mind sharp!

Original post by shelly

A washingtonpost.com article, Giving Voice to Chinese, explains how Chinese environmentalists were able to muster people together to protest the construction of a new factory by communicating with cell phones.
It was a dramatic illustration of the potential of technology — particularly cellphones and the Internet — to challenge the rigorous censorship and political controls…

That is awesome. The Chinese government has earned itself a bad reputation for censorship. For a thorough exampe, read this excerpt from Esse est indicato in Google on the Chinese internet censorship:
Email appears to be filtered at the service provider level, not at the backbone level, and increasingly sophisticated anti-spam filtering software can also be modified for use in political filtering. Blog provides are carefully monitored through keyword filtering, and politically incorrect bloggers are typically removed quickly from the servers. Within China, when one looks for Google, one often reaches alternative search engines such […]

Original post by humanisticmystic

So…when it comes to blogging I am rather like my sister. I’m still pretty new to this whole “write down your thoughts for everyone to see” thing. I’ve got a myspace account which allows me to blog as well, but so far in the last 3 years that I’ve had my account I’ve written probably six blogs. Most of my writing style revolves around being sarcastic, so most of what I have to say is a running commentary of whatever annoys me enough to write.
Class was interesting last night. I was afraid for a while that the course would be lecture based, which boded poorly for me as I am known to stealth nap in such classes. Fortunately, it turned out to be very discussion based….nay, engaging discussion based, so I’m thinking that this will be a better month than I mapped it out to be.
In particular, I liked our […]

Original post by georgestreet

Two days ago, an interesting article caught my eye on BBC News. Reference is made to ethnographer Danah Boyd, PhD, who makes many observations in a non-scholarly blog essay regarding a social schism between Facebook and MySpace. Already, the blog post has received feedback from over 200 people. Essentially, Boyd argues that there is a strongly visible trend for the elite, educated, “hegemonic” teenagers to flock to Facebook while the socially ostracized teenagers swarm to MySpace.
Indeed many experienced social networkers, including myself, have commented on the apparent superiority of Facebook to MySpace. To many Facebookers, there seems to be this upper class prestige that comes with the Facebook network. This probably has to do with its history. Facebook was once restricted only to college students. Then the site gradually opened itself fully to the public, which perturbed a great deal of Facebook veterans who preferred the more intimate environment.
Still, […]

Original post by humanisticmystic

Well let me preface this a little bit by stating that I am not much of a blogger.  I have only written two blogs in my entire life time *gasp* !  Since I am in a sense, a n00b at this blogging business I am not entirely sure what I should be writing about, and how to go about writing it.  I imagine my blogs will be tangenty, and scattered, so there.

While sitting in my New Media class, immersed in a deeply thrilling discussion, multiple thoughts raced through my head along the lines of ‘ohhh remember this for later, it would be good to reflect on in your blog”.  Alas, I am not a memex and therefore I can only remember my most recent thoughts which have nothing to do with my new media class.  My most recent thoughts long for my next day off from work where I […]

Original post by Peanut!

So I signed up for a second life because I thought it looked cool when Dr. Campbell showed us tonight. I’ll probably wind up getting addicted to it and not getting anything else done, haha.
My name on there is Aryana Larsson – be my friend! 

Original post by Ashley

I swear I have a blog! I swear!

Original post by georgestreet

Welcome to blogs.elsweb.org. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

Original post by shelly

Although this is hardly relevant to anything, I figured my first post for Memex to YouTube would be one of my favorite YouTube videos.

Original post by mtt3e