[Air-L] article for list submission

Alan Sondheim sondheim at panix.com
Tue Apr 12 23:22:02 PDT 2011



Hi, two comments: First, a superpower acts more or less in concert; Fb is 
more of a collocation, much like a phone network. Second, it might be my 
bias, but I think the 'Arab Spring' etc. would have been pretty much the 
same without Fb and indeed without the net; we tend far too much to create 
a kind of technological functionalism as explanatory. Reaganism credited 
the US for the collapse of the Soviet Union; to me, there's a relation. As 
you point out (denigration of Afghans), Fb is more a network of networks 
(much like the older description of the net itself); it doesn't act in 
unity, and it's very often not on the ground in terms of geopolitics. I'd 
think a fruitful direction would be to consider the locus of Fb's 
political power in the interface itself, which is more or less the same 
for everyone; is there a good, perhaps psychoanalytical analysis of 
'friendship' in relation to the software for example?

Thanks, Alan (over my head here)


On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Carmela Baranowska wrote:

> hi,
>
> Please find a recent article I wrote on 'Facebook is the New Superpower' for The Conversation:
>
> http://theconversation.edu.au/articles/facebook-is-the-new-superpower-894
>
> I would like to submit it to the list. Comments and disagreements welcome and appreciated!
>
> all the best,
> Carmela Baranowska
> Lecturer in Media
> Australian Catholic University
> Carmela.Baranowska at acu.edu.au
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> For the third year, we are opening applications for the *Master degree
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> students from the fields of sciences, design, humanities to perform
> interdisciplinary studies/researches on the Web and Internet, from
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> This master degree, "Interdisciplinary Approaches of the Web" (in french
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> Hello, I'm putting together a course on representations of the internet in
> popular culture and I was wondering if anyone on this list may have any
> suggestions for journal articles or book chapters focusing on the
> portrayal of the internet (or of computer networking) in science fiction
> movies and novels. Please email me off-list at dddumitr at ucalgary.ca
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> Thank you.
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> Delia Dumitrica
> PhD Student & Sessional Instructor
> Department of Communication and Culture
> University of Calgary
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