Beyoncé (feat. Jay-Z) “Drunk in Love” Unofficial Emoji Video from JESSE HILL on Vimeo. BY JEFF SCHEIBLEAssistant professor of cinema studies at Purchase College, State University of New York Last year, Austin-based video producer Jesse Hill made a video to impress his girlfriend for Beyoncé and Jay Z’s “Drunk in Love” that transcribes the entire … More What do ellipses do for us?
BY PAUL STEPHENS In early 2012 I thought I had discovered the perfect title for my new project, which was to be a diary of my information habits. I wrote up several pages of notes under the title “Confessions of an Infomaniac.” Several weeks later I Googled the phrase, and to my chagrin found the … More Meditations of an Infomaniac, Part 2 of 2
BY PAUL STEPHENS My iPhone slips from my hand and lands on the subway tracks. I glance down the tunnel and don’t see a train. I’m carrying a heavy bag containing a Macbook Pro, an iPad and a dozen or so books. The digital signboard says the next Manhattan-bound train will arrive in one minute. … More Meditations of an Infomaniac, Part 1 of 2
BY JUSSI PARIKKAWinchester School of Art, University of Southampton Fracking is a controversial process of forcing the ground open in order to extract gas and oil. The process has had its deserved amount of critique because of the environmental hazards it poses and how such rather desperate means of fossil energy extraction are continuing the … More Fractured Media Materialities: On Geology of Media
Image copyright of Sylvie Reuter BY ADRIENNE SHAWAssistant professor of media studies and production at Temple University After years of trying to explain my book, Gaming at the Edge, in a sound byte, I eventually boiled it down to the following: 1) players don’t care that much about representation in games, and 2) that’s a … More #INeedDiverseGames and why representation in games matters
BY LORI EMERSONAssistant professor of English, as well as the founder and director of the Media Archaeology Lab, at the University of Colorado at Boulder — #MALcasestudies is a weekly blog series featuring treasures that exist in the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Media Archaeology Lab. See links to previous posts below.— It’s been a privilege … More Case study #5 (and final) from the Media Archaeology Lab: On OTHER NETWORKS and "the internet."
From #MALcasestudies series author Lori Emerson: This week’s post features Matthew Kirschenbaum, a scholar whose work in digital forensics and media archaeology as well as his role in running the collection of vintage computers at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) has long been a model for my own work. Kirschenbaum’s post … More Case Study #4 | "It Is Known": George R. R. Martin, WordStar, and Media Archaeology in the Media
The Vectrex gaming console of 1982, which is housed in the Media ArchaeologyLab and was produced for only two years, was remarkable for its lightpenand its portability, among other features. BY LORI EMERSONAssistant professor of English, as well as the founder and director of the Media Archaeology Lab, at the University of Colorado at Boulder … More Case study #3 from the Media Archaeology Lab: The Vectrex Gaming Console from 1982
This still-functioning Altair 8800b from 1976 is housed in the MediaArchaeology Lab (MAL) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. BY LORI EMERSONAssistant professor of English, as well as the founder and director of the Media Archaeology Lab, at the University of Colorado at Boulder — #MALcasestudies is a weekly blog series featuring treasures that … More Case study #2 from the Media Archaeology Lab: The Altair 8800b from 1976
The Media Archaeology Lab, hosted at the University of Colorado at Boulder and founded by Lori Emerson, is a space for cross-disciplinary experimental research using still-functioning but obsolete tools from the past. Visit it here. BY LORI EMERSONAssistant professor of English, as well as the founder and director of the Media Archaeology Lab, at the … More New weekly series: Case studies from the Media Archaeology Lab
