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Tag Archives: infosphere
Bookish Identities: How the Online Reading Community Empowers the Self
***Leah Perry considers the intersections of identity and authorship in the context of infosphere by drawing on examples of online reading communities. Leah is on Twitter @leahplis*** Introduction The pervasiveness and increasing usage of digital technologies and information communication technologies … Continue reading
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Tagged #INM380, #SocialMedia, authorship, identity, infosphere
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Student Perspectives: Lockdown, and What the Digital World Cannot yet Replace
The Student Perspectives category collects posts written by current CityLIS students. In this post, Nina Byrom considers how Floridi’s theory of digital proxies has become a reality in the context of Covid-19 but also looks at how lockdown has revealed … Continue reading
Modern forms of publishing include writing blogs and posting diverse content on social media. In this context, how do library and/or information services relate to questions of identity in the twenty-first century?
***Elle Moyse considers how Web 2.0 reconfigures our sense of identity when it is presented as media. These ideas are discussed with reference to online journalism, blogging and social media. Elle is on Twitter @ElleMoyse. It is reproduced here with … Continue reading
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Tagged identity, infosphere, journalism, Libraries and Publishing, social media, Web 2.0
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Authorship in the Age of the Infosphere
***This essay was written by CityLIS student Anna Gialdini in April 2019. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission as part of our CityLIS Writes initiative.*** The infosphere – and one of its predominant media, the internet – have … Continue reading
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Tagged authorship, infosphere, Libraries and Publishing, open access, oral culture, post-truth
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Trans-Participation in the Infosphere
This is the full version of the paper Joseph Dunne-Howrie gave at the DocPerform 3: Postdigital Symposium on May 16th 2019 *** I recently gave a paper where I criticized those immersive performances that denude participants of their critical agency … Continue reading
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Tagged #DocPerform #Postdigital #conference #immersivetheatre #participation, infosphere
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