speaking of bridging the personal and professional, i just submitted a paper on gay chat to danah, michele, and liz’s digital identity workshop at cscw 2004 in chicago. as some of my readers know, i came out online before i…

speaking of bridging the personal and professional, i just submitted a “>paper on gay chat to danah, michele, and liz’s digital identity workshop at cscw 2004 in chicago. as some of my readers know, i came out online before i…

When Blobjects Rule the Earth: Bruce Sterling’s SIGGRAPH keynote Re-Assertion of Bodily Presence: “The magnets have the ability to erase data contained in many memory devices. The wearer creates thus a data-free zone around him/her…” CFP: Representa…

The guest bloggers at feministe this week posted three powerful pieces in a row: one on survivors of sexual violence No Pity. No Shame. No Silence., another on modesty The Sweet Smell of Flowers and a third one titled Sex…

Some examples:
- Photo-mediated (Why do you prefer one picture of yourself over another one?)
- Display-mediated (Will the picture of your niece at the park end up framed and in your living room, held by a magnet on the fridge door, or in a shoe box?)
- Story/album-mediated (Is your vacation album as likely to include the group shot of seconds spent in front of an erupting Old Faithful, as much as the half-day spent dealing with the broken car on your way home?)

At Computer Supported Cooperative Work this year, Danah Boyd will be teaming up with Michele Chang and Liz Goodman to organize a workshop called “Representations of Digital Identity”, to work on how people represent and manage identity in a digital…

At Computer Supported Cooperative Work this year, Danah Boyd will be teaming up with Michele Chang and Liz Goodman to organize a workshop called “Representations of Digital Identity”, to work on how people represent and manage identity in a digital…

with lyre and
rhythem
poets yell into a
sea of heads
bobbing across
concrete
below the
shadow of the
all seeing buildings

armed with poems poets lurk
inside large rooms
conventions and stalk
political
armed with poems
words as pierceing
bits of glass
upon the skin
of knowing

the redhead persona of
steping into a parade
as man
as women
as machine

hidden behind words
poets lurk until
the command of passion
and sapphic singing
lures to sleep
hidden words that hurt
biting into a self not
seen within a mirror
of reflections turned to words
knowing

that poets are armed with words…

http://www.stefanospantagis.net/journal/

stef

When Blobjects Rule the Earth: Bruce Sterling’s SIGGRAPH keynote Re-Assertion of Bodily Presence: “The magnets have the ability to erase data contained in many memory devices. The wearer creates thus a data-free zone around him/her…” CFP: Representa…