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This is a reflection on Leander and McKim’s “Tracing the Everyday ‘Sitings’ of Adolescents on the Internet: a strategic adaptation of ethnography across online and offline spaces”. You can find the article here.
I liked the article, although their description of methodologies was, as they put it, “imaginative”, or as I put it, “vague, but very interesting”. Also, I wonder about their theory of metaphor, and whether or not it jibes with Lakoff et. al.. Not that it has too, of course.
So my reflection on L+M’s take on ‘net-walking’ has to be a posting of the following video. It just has to. The video is mine. I haven’t spent much time publicly analyzing this video, but I’ll partially do so now, just in terms of specifying a few themes, and by the simple act of placing it next to Leander and McKim’s article.
The video originated from an essay about Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ and Walter Benjamin’s “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” for my class with Frank Moretti and Ruth Palmer in the spring. Some of the themes are Persuasion, Net-walking (in a non-binary light a la and not-a-la Leander + McKim), Recording and Editing, Programming, Surveillance, Mimicry, Future Art and Recapitulation.
Attend, Attend! This is not a Fail Video, nor is meant to trap your attention via music or cartoon characters! We simply must concentrate! Although…
Bloogleday
(If you happen to have flashblock as a firefox plugin, if you happen to use firefox, you must disable it. Even if you tell flashblock it’s ok, it still won’t play. It’s weird. So either disable flashblock and restart FF, or go to the link on Vimeo.
What happens when the net is the world and the world is the net (simplistic I know) and we allow ourselves to amble, like Benjamin, but aided by powerful, networked, programmed recording and editing devices? And specifically with regard to Leander and McKim, what metaphors are at work here? If you’ve watched carefully, or even looked carefully at the title, one can see that there are pretty deep connections to Joyce’s Ulysses (no I’m not claiming genius, I’ve just made some connections). My current L+M-based question, I guess, is, “In what ways is metaphor functioning in the net-walking that is the video, and how would a Leander +McKim-influenced ethnography account for it?”.
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superflat-monogram-takashi-murakami
This is a reflection on Leander and McKim’s “Tracing the Everyday ‘Sitings’ of Adolescents on the Internet: a strategic adaptation of ethnography across online and offline spaces”. You can find the article here.
I liked the article, although their description of methodologies was, as they put it, “imaginative”, or as I put it, “vague, but very interesting”. Also, I wonder about their theory of metaphor, and whether or not it jibes with Lakoff et. al.. Not that it has too, of course.
So my reflection on L+M’s take on ‘net-walking’ has to be a posting of the following video. It just has to. The video is mine. I haven’t spent much time publicly analyzing this video, but I’ll partially do so now, just in terms of specifying a few themes, and by the simple act of placing it next to Leander and McKim’s article.
The video originated from an essay about Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ and Walter Benjamin’s “Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” for my class with Frank Moretti and Ruth Palmer in the spring. Some of the themes are Persuasion, Net-walking (in a non-binary light a la and not-a-la Leander + McKim), Recording and Editing, Programming, Surveillance, Mimicry, Future Art and Recapitulation.
Attend, Attend! This is not a Fail Video, nor is meant to trap your attention via music or cartoon characters! We simply must concentrate! Although…
Bloogleday
(If you happen to have flashblock as a firefox plugin, if you happen to use firefox, you must disable it. Even if you tell flashblock it’s ok, it still won’t play. It’s weird. So either disable flashblock and restart FF, or go to the link on Vimeo.
What happens when the net is the world and the world is the net (simplistic I know) and we allow ourselves to amble, like Benjamin, but aided by powerful, networked, programmed recording and editing devices? And specifically with regard to Leander and McKim, what metaphors are at work here? If you’ve watched carefully, or even looked carefully at the title, one can see that there are pretty deep connections to Joyce’s Ulysses (no I’m not claiming genius, I’ve just made some connections). My current L+M-based question, I guess, is, “In what ways is metaphor functioning in the net-walking that is the video, and how would a Leander +McKim-influenced ethnography account for it?”.