By: Vidya Gopal An Instagram Timeline Keywords: Instagram; platform design; history; monetisation; attention Project Statement Instagram has been around for 12 years, and in these years, it has changed considerably in its features, target audience and focus. Last June, company head Adam Mosseri said Instagram was no longer ‘just a photo sharing app’, and they …
By Nicky Broekhuysen & Mine Kaplangi When the Dust Settles An unsettled experimentation on a 2016 exhibition The Digital Archaeologist Keywords: media archaeology; binary code; collaboration; digital archive; experimentation I have realised that there is no final ‘ordered end point’ rather there is just the space through which one passes on the journey to discovering …
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By: Katherine Mitchell Computational Constructions of Time and Deep Futures in John F. Simon’s Every Icon (1997) A media philosophy of (deep) time Keywords: temporality; computation; obsolescence; internet; aesthetics In an age of rapid technological obsolescence and pervasive discourse on communication technologies’ phenomenological annihilation of time and space stands a body of media theory preoccupied …
By: Leah Packard Grams Killing Time: Reading Ancient Text-Artifacts in the Digital Realm Keywords: papyrology; digital humanities; digitisation; accessibility, time Introduction The field of papyrology appeals to many scholars because these ancient papyri (most of which have been excavated from Egypt) preserve texts in the very handwriting of the people who wrote them. The handwritten …
