Posts tagged internet

Revenge Pornography

I suppose Revenge Pornography is truly a sign of our wired times. For those of you who have drunkenly or privately shared photos and those images of your naughty bits and those pictures have shown up on the web, ‘implied confidentiality’ might be a legal defense for you.

America's H.R. 1981 A Turd Wrapped in Cotton Candy

“Background: H.R. 1981, the nefariously entitled ‘Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act,’ is actually a wide-ranging Internet surveillance bill that has no place in the United States of America. (Why not call it the Protecting Kittens From Harm Act? Or the American Prosperity Guarantee Act — just a B.S. name so that politicians in the House and Senate are strong-armed into voting for it, even though it contains utterly insane 1984-style Big Brother surveillance provisions. WebProNews recently called H.R. 1981 a ‘turd wrapped in cotton candy,’ actually one of the more diplomatic assessments of the bill.)” Videocast explaining H.R. 1981 in-depth at Business Insider.

'Net Neutrality' Scholar Fears a Corporate Takeover of The Web

Tim Wu is opinionated, tattooed, and likes to dress up as a bear. Now the godfather of Net neutrality is attempting life as a Washington bureaucrat…

Brad Troemel’s From Clubs to Affinity: The Decentralization of Art on the Internet (with difficulties) - “Just as society’s notion of a single public sphere has transformed into dispersed networks of like-minded affinity, so too has the reception and production of internet art become increasingly decentralized. I will use Juergen Habermas’ 1962 essay The Structural Transformation of The Public Sphere as a model to understand what formative shifts have occurred in the past two decades of the internet’s existence and the art that has been displayed through it. The first portion of this writing is an attempt to historically situate the internet’s role in providing a public sphere for artists. Later, I draw a parallel between post-Y2K social platforms like Facebook and the networked distributional channels many internet artists have been using since the emergence of surf clubs”

Brad Troemel’s From Clubs to Affinity: The Decentralization of Art on the Internet (with difficulties) - “Just as society’s notion of a single public sphere has transformed into dispersed networks of like-minded affinity, so too has the reception and production of internet art become increasingly decentralized. I will use Juergen Habermas’ 1962 essay The Structural Transformation of The Public Sphere as a model to understand what formative shifts have occurred in the past two decades of the internet’s existence and the art that has been displayed through it. The first portion of this writing is an attempt to historically situate the internet’s role in providing a public sphere for artists. Later, I draw a parallel between post-Y2K social platforms like Facebook and the networked distributional channels many internet artists have been using since the emergence of surf clubs”

Art Fag City responds to Brad Troemel’s article with The Decentralization of Art on The Internet: An Imagined History. Paddy Johnson fact checks: “I did go to the trouble of annotating the historical timeline adeptly identified by Manning as a ‘90’s utopia disrupted by a web 2.0 capitalist regime, which paved the way for a group of elitist artists seeking institutional recognition via surf clubs, and which was finally brought down by the populist Tumblr using Internet artist’”.*Eddo Stern, Installation view, 2007, Postmasters

Art Fag City responds to Brad Troemel’s article with The Decentralization of Art on The Internet: An Imagined History. Paddy Johnson fact checks: “I did go to the trouble of annotating the historical timeline adeptly identified by Manning as a ‘90’s utopia disrupted by a web 2.0 capitalist regime, which paved the way for a group of elitist artists seeking institutional recognition via surf clubs, and which was finally brought down by the populist Tumblr using Internet artist’”.

*Eddo Stern, Installation view, 2007, Postmasters

One More Time With Feeling: The INTERNET is EVIL!

The Atlantic turned its first profit in at least a decade, largely thanks to embracing the Internet. The owner of longtime rival magazine Harpers—who hates the Internet with burning fire of 10,000 suns and is, thus, not at all likely to be biased in his assessment of Internet-based business plans—reportedly told his staffers that he thinks The Atlantic is lying. via BB.

Court Says Internet Filtering in Public Libraries Not Censorship

“Treating the Internet as if it were a part of the printed collection does indeed have a draconian feel to it, as it disregards the general real-time nature of information in modern society. Though the ruling decides that the filtering does not constitute a form of prior restraint, it acknowledges that filter removal can, at times, take until the next day if not longer. While this may seem reasonable, should one person have less access to information than another, simply because they rely on the public library as a point of information rather than purchasing it on their own?”