Links tagged with “cyberculture”
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In Oracle v. Google, a Nerd Subculture Is on Trial | Motherboard
I love this collision between tech culture and a court made up of “normals”, as the author describes them. (Odd that the article doesn’t say what the trial’s about until the final sentence though.)
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Overshare: the links.net story
I’ve only watched half of this, Justin Hall’s new film, so far and it’s already resulted in me spending way too much time re-reading old emails, poking at web.archive.org, and being far too nostalgic for the old days.
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How Chan-Style Anonymous Culture Shapes #gamergate (with images, tweets) · a_man_in_black · Storify
Really good on the clash of cultures between 4channers/GamerGaters and, well, normal people on Twitter. Other thoughts: Could this break out into media beyond Twitter? In what form? How would that affect society? (via @D_Nye_Griffiths)
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the californian ideology - the hypermedia research centre - University of Westminster
I re-read that. It all seems true still except, perhaps, the optimistic hope that Europe could be different.
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Backspace
Lovely blast from the past, the website of Backspace (a cybercafe on Clink Street, now a Starbucks) is still (or once again?) online, from 1997 by the looks of it. (via @cakemix)
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The Eternal Shame of Your First Online Handle - Technology - GOOD
Kids today are going to go through so many handles, unless they’re all just using their names. Which is what I do these days. I’m just me now. (via Kottke)
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YouTube - The Netizen
Finally able to transfer my previously Google Video-hosted copy of the 1996/7 Wired TV pilot programme to YouTube. Whatever happened to cyber-rights?
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The Participant Observer » Blog Archive » Cyborganic and the Birth of Networked Social Media (It’s here!)
PhD thesis from a couple of years ago, on Cyborganic and other things (like Wired/Hotwired) that its members were involved in.
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On Danny O’Brien on Shift Run Stop « Enemy of Chaos
Leila’s reflections on Danny and NTK and geek culture and everything, plus a fascinating exchange between them over the past couple of days in the comments.