March 2010
2 posts
[NetCult] Jonathan Sterne — MP3 as Cultural...
Chatting today about this great Jonathan Sterne article on the MP3 format as a container technology with a rich cultural presence, capable of study as an artifact in its own right. Super smart mode of media history—download it here [PDF].
I wrote this summary a few months ago:
The MP3 as Cultural Artifact Jonathan Sterne. New Media & Society 8:5 (2006). Because the mp3 encoding format has...
[NetCult] New Thomas Levin Podcast
Forwarding this wonderful new Radio Open Source Thomas Levin podcast [tnx Greg Laynor!]. Lots of interesting points in there. To follow up: big batch of articles on JSTOR to find, Mass Ornament is essential, &I wish this book were still in print. [Catalog for the phenomenal show available online.] A great thinker of some of the issues NetCult has been following this week—locative media,...