As the future approaches, equally digital and messy, it appears that there is considerable need for a thorough re-thinking of the postwar period which to a large extent determined the course of the current conditions. Such a broadly-conceived Foucauldian ‘history of the present’ attempts to shed new light on contemporary phenomena by rethinking their genealogy […]
Mobile communication via mobile and wireless devices not only dominates social communication in terms of everyday media but has already replaced the paradigm of the computer as the medium of convergence for information and communication technologies. The development of smart phones has far-ranging impacts on the consumption of previously disconnected individual media and has laid […]
The Spring 2014 issue of NECSUS will feature a special section dedicated to the broad concept of ‘Traces’. On a meta level the ‘trace’ can be related to the idea of the (photographic) image as an index of an independently existing reality. The digital seems to have changed this footprinting-idea of the relation between image […]
It is fairly common knowledge that all sorts of everyday interactions and engagements with media are captured as byproduct data.[1] It is probably also fairly well-known that such data is routinely harvested by capitalist organisations which then use it in an attempt to predict things about us.[2] However, the ways in which this byproduct data […]
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Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Malte Hagener
Philipps-University Marburg
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Francesco Pitassio
University of Udine
Belén Vidal
King’s College London