Network materiality and temporality: Things flow 'non-continuously' in network culture
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- 1. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU NETWORK MATERIALITY AND TEMPORALITY: THINGS FLOW “NON-CONTINUOUSLY” IN NETWORK CULTURE 5 NOV, 2015 @ THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net School of Communication and Culture The Center for Participatory IT
- 2. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU www.siusoon.net Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net School of Communication and Culture The Center for Participatory IT
- 4. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU Computing as Material Practice
- 5. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU [materialist approaches] embrace both the material substrates and abstract of programming languages required for data storage, processing and exchange: code, hardware devices, operating systems, software, applications, platforms, interfaces, documents, file formats as well as networking protocols and infrastructure. (Casemajor, 2015, p. 5) Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net School of Communication and Culture The Center for Participatory IT
- 6. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU ABOUT ME www.siusoon.net/nonsense/ Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net School of Communication and Culture The Center for Participatory IT Nonsense (2015)
- 7. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU MATERIALIST FRAMEWORK Actor Network Theory (Latour, 1987, 1992, 1999, 2005; Callon, 1991; Law, 1992) ”Things-in-phenomena” (Barad, 2007) Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net School of Communication and Culture The Center for Participatory IT
- 8. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU If we limit critical discussions of digital culture to the notions of “open access”, “cyber”, “digital”, “Internet,” “networks,” “new media”, or “social media,” we will never be able to get to what is behind new representational and communication media and to understand what it really is and what it does. If we don’t address software itself, we are in danger of always dealing only with its effects rather than the causes: the output that appears on a computer screen rather than the programs and social cultures that produce these outputs. (Manovich, 2011) Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net School of Communication and Culture The Center for Participatory IT
- 9. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net School of Communication and Culture The Center for Participatory IT
- 10. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU CONTINUITY / FLOW / STREAM Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net School of Communication and Culture The Center for Participatory IT
- 11. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU Raymond Williams invokes the concept of 'flow' as a way of explaining the effect of immediacy and presence the experience of television gives. The defining characteristic of broadcasting, both as technology and as cultural form, Williams argues, is one of sequence or flow. (Feuer, p. 15, 1983) Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net School of Communication and Culture The Center for Participatory IT
- 12. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU I want to suggest that in social media, as it developed until now (2004-2012), database no longer rules. Instead, social media brings forward a new form: a data stream. Instead of browsing or searching a collection of objects, a user experiences the continuous flow of events. (Manovich, n.p, 2012) Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net School of Communication and Culture The Center for Participatory IT
- 13. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU In network time, things flow non-continuously. The NOW constantly punctures time, as the new quickly becomes old, and the old becomes forwarded once more as new(ish). (Chun, forthcoming) Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net School of Communication and Culture The Center for Participatory IT
- 14. http://siusoon.net/home/?p=1155 How to get the Mao experience through Internet… (2014)
- 15. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU THROBBER Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net School of Communication and Culture The Center for Participatory IT
- 16. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU PROGRESS BAR Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net School of Communication and Culture The Center for Participatory IT
- 17. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU DATA PACKET Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net School of Communication and Culture The Center for Participatory IT
- 18. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU TEMPORAL THINGS Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net School of Communication and Culture The Center for Participatory IT temporal things (2015) http://networkedthing.orgfree.com/
- 19. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU The network structure of today’s communication channels and of their information stream is often understood as providing a direct connection between users and services or between two communication partners, even though there cannot be any direct connections on digital networks. The metaphor of the flow conceals the fact that, technically, what is taking place is quite the opposite. There is no stream in digital networks. (Sprenger, 2015, pp. 88-89, my emphasis) Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net School of Communication and Culture The Center for Participatory IT
- 20. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU DISCONTINUOUS TEMPORALITY Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net School of Communication and Culture The Center for Participatory IT
- 22. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU The Pirate Cinema by Nico http://thepiratecinema.com/
- 23. AARHUS UNIVERSITETAU Winnie SOON | Ph.D Fellow | www.siusoon.net School of Communication and Culture The Center for Participatory IT Thank You