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Pictures http://www.thomaslevine.com/Shenanigans/SFCNYC2011 http://www.facebook.com/perluette http://twitter.com/thomaslevine Tom 2011/2/21 Alec Story <[email protected]>: > One thing a friend of mine ([email protected], another co-founder of SFC > Cornell) noticed on Diaspora is that if you edit your aspects' settings, you > can let members of that aspect see other members, which would help in friend > discovery, especially among a community like ours. > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Kevin Driscoll <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:31 AM, sarv?daya >> <[email protected] >> > >> >> Post your info and any thoughts on the conference! >> >> Hiyo! >> >> I'm Kevin Driscoll, a PhD student in Communication at U. of Southern >> California. >> >> I'm most chatty on twitter: >> http://twitter.com/desconcentrado >> >> And am seeking more SFC friends on diaspora: >> [email protected] >> >> Free culture issues regularly surface in my research and I'm always >> looking to collaborate or toss around ideas so I'll tell you a little >> about my scholarly work: >> >> I'm part of a research group at USC called Civic Paths that studies >> popular/participatory cultures and civic engagement. Last year, I >> wrote about a group of rock musicians (Living Room Rock Gods) who >> organized a campaign called "Tribute is not theft" after dozens and >> dozens of their videos were removed from YouTube: >> >> http://sites.google.com/site/participatorydemocracyproject/case-studies/tribute-is-not-theft >> >> You can read more about the work of my Civic Paths colleagues on our blog: >> http://civicpaths.net/groupblog >> >> In 2009, I wrote a Master's thesis called "Stepping your game up: >> Technical innovation among young people of color in hip-hop" that >> looks at hip-hop as an approach to producing free and participatory >> culture: >> http://cms.mit.edu/research/theses/KevinDriscoll2009.pdf >> >> Three areas of research I'm working in now that relate to SFC are.... >> * Studying 1970s hobbyist microcomputer clubs through their >> newsletters (They were talking about the problems of "owning" software >> as early as 1975!) >> * Looking to amateur radio, early cable/satellite TV, and BBSes as >> models for building new internet infrastructure (including open mesh, >> natch!) >> * Encouraging social science and humanities scholars who study online >> phenomena to learn to read & write code. Lana Swartz (from the fashion >> panel), Joshua McVeigh-Schultz (also from USC), and I are going to be >> running a related workshop called "DIY Data-mining" next month at the >> DML conference in Long Beach. (BTW - Asheesh's 2009 lecture about web >> scraping was a big inspiration for this work!) >> >> If you're into similar stuff, please don't hesitate to get in touch. >> >> Thanks for starting this thread, Danny. I'm looking forward to reading >> more of these introduction emails! >> >> Kevin >> http://kevindriscoll.info >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > > > -- > Alec Story > Cornell University > Biological Sciences, Computer Science 2012 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
