Jeg har funnet ut hvordan jeg kan få Mac-en til å slutte å rette liten ‘i’ til stor ‘I’. En gang i tiden var Mac enklere å bruke en Windows. Den forskjellen er i ferd med å forsvinne, særlig fordi Apple stadig oftere gjør slik Microsoft gjorde, og gjemmer nyttige funksjoner på ulogiske steder. Les videre
ECREA 2014: Databases and covert conclusions
Thursday 13 November, I gave a talk at ECREA 2014.
If you would like to read the full paper, you may download it from this page. Comments are very welcome!
My slides are here:
Software studies på faglig-pedagogisk dag
I dag snakket jeg til skolelærere på Universitetet i Oslos «Faglig-pedagogisk dag». Tittelen på forelesningen var «Medier som software: Hva kan medievitenskapen lære av Software Studies» Les videre
How to make inline headings in Word
In the APA style, the level three headings should be inline, that is, the next sentence begins just after the heading, not on a new line. Les videre
Review of Blue Velvet in Vectors
Goldberg, David Theo and Stefka Hristova. «Blue Velvet: Re-dressing New Orleans in Katrina’s Wake» Vectors 3.1 (2007) <http://vectors.usc.edu/projects/index.php?project=82>
Blue Velvet is a linear article arguing that the disaster in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina was a socially produce one, as the affected area was designated for poor black people and had been neglected for over a century, a development made even worse by neoliberalism and the Iraq war. Les videre
Review of «Wegzeit»
Offenhuber, Dietmar. «Wegzeit: The geometry of relative distance». Vectors 1.2 (2006) <http://vectors.usc.edu/projects/index.php?project=64>
Regular maps show objective distances and spatial relations. But we also experience spaces in relative measures, such as the time it will take you to get somewhere. «Wegzeit» is a short presentation of six different experimental maps of Los Angeles. Les videre
Review of «Objects of Media Studies»
Hastie, Amelie (curator). «Objects of Media Studies». Vectors 2.1 (2006). <http://vectors.usc.edu/projects/index.php?project=65> 28 July, 2014.
This is a curated collection of texts by eight writers exploring the materiality of one object each. The nodes can be read in three ways: By author, by curator’s narrative, or free browsing. Les videre
Review of «Public Secrets»
Daniel, Sharon. «Public Secrets». Vectors 2.2 (2007). <http://vectors.usc.edu/projects/index.php?project=57>
«Public Secrets» is a collection (what Manovich would call a ‘database’) of bits of sound recordings of interviews with inmates in a California women’s prison. The bits are linked together by various means, but the main listening experience is one of random browsing, assembling a mosaique out of sound bites ranging from 45 seconds to 3 minutes. The piece was recognized as an Official Honoree in the Activism category by the 11th Webby awards. Les videre
How a young researcher can be visible on the web
These are a few thoughts presented to the Annual Seminar of the Graduate School of Human Interaction and Growth, University of Bergen, 6. June 2014. Les videre
ISMI 2014 paper
Today, I am presenting a paper on my Church Music in Rome project at the International Symposium on Media Innovations. You can download the paper I submitted to the conference.
This paper will be updated with new results, and future versions will be linked from this page.
Update: The paper was published in The journal of media innovations 2.1 (2015).