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• 17:18, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Henry Jenkins (Created page with "===Biography=== Henry Jenkins III (b. 4 June 1958) is an American media scholar, Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California. He previously spent two decades at MIT, where he was Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities and founding director of the Comparative Media Studies programme. His work is distinguished by an early and sustained refusal to treat audiences as passive, and by taking fan practi...")
• 17:18, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Gulf of Execution (Created page with "===Definition=== The gulf of execution is the gap between what a person intends to do and the actions a system makes available to them. It is one half of a pair introduced by Donald Norman — the other being the '''gulf of evaluation''', the gap between the state a system is in and what the person can determine about that state from what the system shows. The formulation appears in Norman's work with Stephen Draper in ''User Centered System Design'' (198...")
• 17:17, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Gilles Deluze (Created page with "===Biography=== Gilles Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher, one of the most influential of the postwar period. He taught at Lyon and, from 1969 until his retirement in 1987, at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes), where his seminars were open to anyone. He wrote monographs on Hume, Nietzsche, Kant, Bergson, Spinoza, Proust, Kafka, Francis Bacon and cinema, and — with the psychoanalyst and activist Félix Guattari — the two volu...")
• 17:16, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Extended Self (Created page with "===Definition=== The extended self is the proposition that a person's self is not bounded by their skin — that possessions, tools, records, places and other people are, under some descriptions, genuinely parts of the self rather than merely things the self owns or uses. Two largely separate literatures use the term, discussed below: ===Consumer-Research=== Russell Belk's "Possessions and the Extended Self" (''Journal of Consumer Research'', 1988) is the founding pap...")
• 17:15, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Existentialism (Created page with "===Definition=== Existentialism is a philosophical movement, chiefly European and chiefly twentieth-century, organised around the claim that human beings have no given essence or predetermined nature, and are therefore responsible for making themselves through their choices. Jean-Paul Sartre's formula — '''"existence precedes essence"''' — states the position. A paper-knife has an essence before it exists: a maker conceived its purpose and then produced it. A human...")
• 17:14, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing (Created page with "===Author=== Adam Greenfield, American writer and urbanist. He has worked as an information architect in Tokyo, as head of design direction for user interface and service design at Nokia, and as founder of the urban systems practice Urbanscale; he has taught at NYU and the Bartlett. His later books are ''Against the Smart City'' (2013) and ''Radical Technologies'' (2017). ===Publication Details=== ''Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing''. Berkeley: New Rid...")
• 17:14, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Envisioning the Ubquitious City (Created page with "''The author and publication venue for this title could not be confirmed. The entry below describes the subject the title names, with sourced material on the u-city programme; the citation should be completed by anyone who knows the original.'' ===Subject=== The ubiquitous city, or '''u-city''', is the South Korean planning programme of the 2000s that set out to build cities with computation embedded in their infrastructure from the ground up, rather than retrofitted on...")
• 17:14, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Ease (Created page with "===Definition=== Ease is the quality of requiring little effort — in interaction design, the property of a system that lets a person accomplish what they came to do without expending attention, learning or patience on the system itself. It is the direct inverse of the frictional interface, and the two are best understood as a single scale. ===Kinds of Ease=== The word covers several distinct properties that trade against one another, and much...")
• 17:13, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Doug Englebart (Created page with "===Biography=== Douglas Carl Engelbart (30 January 1925 – 2 July 2013) was an American engineer and inventor whose research group produced, in a single decade, most of the components of modern interactive computing. Trained in electrical engineering at Oregon State, he served as a radar technician in the Philippines during the Second World War, where he read Vannevar Bush's essay "As We May Think" (1945) — the encounter he described as decisive. He took a doctorate...")
• 17:12, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Discipline and Punish (Created page with "===Author=== Michel Foucault (1926–1984), French philosopher and historian of systems of thought, professor at the Collège de France from 1970. ===Publication Details=== ''Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison''. Paris: Gallimard, 1975. English translation by Alan Sheridan, ''Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison''. New York: Pantheon, 1977. 333 pp. The French title is closer to "to watch over and punish," and the loss of ''surveiller'' in translation...")
• 17:12, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Digitally Mediated Urban Space (Created page with "''The author and publication venue for this title could not be confirmed. The entry below describes the subject the title names and the literature it belongs to; the citation should be completed by anyone who knows the original.'' ===Subject=== Digitally mediated urban space refers to city space as it is experienced through and structured by digital systems — a condition in which movement, encounter, commerce and perception in a city are routed through software layers...")
• 17:12, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Digital Anthropology (Created page with "===Definition=== Digital anthropology is the anthropological study of the relationship between humans and digital technology — the ethnographic study of how people actually live with, through and around digital media, and of what that reveals about culture generally. ===Founding Position=== The field's programmatic statement is the introduction to ''Digital Anthropology'' (Berg, 2012), edited by Heather Horst and Daniel Miller.<ref>Horst, Heather A., and Daniel Mi...")
• 17:11, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page David Merrill (Created page with "===Biography=== David Merrill is an American technologist and entrepreneur working on tangible interfaces. He took his doctorate at the MIT Media Lab in the Fluid Interfaces group under Pattie Maes, with earlier degrees from Stanford, and co-founded Sifteo with Jeevan Kalanithi in 2009 to commercialise the research.<ref>[https://www.ted.com/speakers/david_merrill David Merrill], TED speaker profile.</ref> ===Siftables=== Merrill's doctoral work produced '''Siftables''':...")
• 17:11, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page DAO (Created page with "===Definition=== A DAO — decentralised autonomous organisation — is an organisation whose rules of governance are encoded as software running on a blockchain, so that decisions are made by token-weighted vote and executed automatically, without a board, a registered office or a legal person in the conventional sense. ===The Idea=== The proposition is that the coordination functions of a firm — deciding, allocating funds, enforcing agreements — can be performed b...")
• 17:11, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Cyborg (Created page with "===Definition=== A cyborg is a cybernetic organism: a being whose functioning depends on an integrated system of organic and technological components, where the technological part participates in the organism's self-regulation rather than merely serving it. ===Origin=== The word was coined by Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline in "Cyborgs and Space," published in ''Astronautics'' in September 1960.<ref>Clynes, Manfred E., and Nathan S. Kline. "Cyborgs and Space." ''Astrona...")
• 17:09, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Cyborg Citizen (Created page with "===Author=== Chris Gray (b. 1953), American political scientist and historian of science and technology, and editor of ''The Cyborg Handbook'' (1995). He took his doctorate under Donna Haraway in the History of Consciousness programme at UC Santa Cruz. ===Publication Details=== ''Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age''. New York: Routledge, 2001. 246 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-91978-4.<ref>Reviewed in ''Culture Machine''; see [https://culturemachine.net/reviews/habl...")
• 17:09, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Culture and Consumption II (Created page with "===Author=== Grant McCracken (b. 1951), Canadian anthropologist of consumption. The volume is the sequel to ''Culture and Consumption'' (1988), written after fifteen years of consulting work with corporations. ===Publication Details=== ''Culture and Consumption II: Markets, Meaning, and Brand Management''. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. 240 pp. ISBN 978-0...")
• 17:09, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Convergence Culture (Created page with "===Author=== Henry Jenkins (b. 1958), American media scholar, then at MIT as founding director of Comparative Media Studies, now Provost Professor at the University of Southern California. ===Publication Details=== ''Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide''. New York: New York University Press, 2006. 308 pp. ISBN 978-0-8147-4295-2. ===Description=== Jenkins's argument begins by rejecting the version of convergence that was conventional wisdom when he...")
• 17:07, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page The Coming of Age in Second Life (Created page with "===Author=== Tom Boellstorff (b. 1969), American anthropologist, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He previously did long-term fieldwork in Indonesia on sexuality and nation, published as ''The Gay Archipelago'' (2005), and edited ''American Anthropologist'' from 2007 to 2012. ===Publication Details=== ''Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human''. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. 316 pp. IS...")
• 17:07, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Chatbot (Created page with "===Definition=== A chatbot is a program that conducts a conversation with a person in natural language, through text or speech. ===History=== '''ELIZA''' (1966), written by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT, is the origin point. Its best-known script, DOCTOR, imitated a Rogerian psychotherapist by reflecting the user's statements back as questions, using pattern matching on keywords and almost no model of meaning. Weizenbaum was disturbed rather than pleased by the result: peopl...")
• 17:06, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Cellular Automata (Created page with "===Definition=== A cellular automaton is a computational system consisting of a regular grid of cells, each in one of a finite number of states, which all update simultaneously at discrete time steps according to a fixed rule that depends only on a cell's own state and the states of its neighbours. Everything interesting about cellular automata follows from that last clause: the rule is local, identical everywhere, and contains no reference to the pattern as a whole. Wh...")
• 17:06, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World (Created page with "===Author=== Trevor Paglen (b. 1974), American artist and experimental geographer. He took a doctorate in geography at the University of California, Berkeley, and works across photography, sculpture, investigative research and writing. His projects include ''The Last Pictures'' (a disc of images attached to a geostationary satellite), work on undersea internet cables, and the ''Limit Telephotography'' series. ===Publication Details=== ''Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark...")
• 17:05, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Beyond Locative Media (Created page with "===Authors=== Marc Tuters, media theorist, now at the University of Amsterdam, and Kazys Varnelis, architectural historian and then director of the Network Architecture Lab at Columbia University. ===Citation=== Tuters, Marc, and Kazys Varnelis. "Beyond Locative Media: Giving Shape to the Internet of Things." ''Leonardo'' 39, no. 4 (2006): 357–363.<ref>[https://direct.mit.edu/leon/article/39/4/357/44876/ Beyond Locative Media: Giving Shape to the Internet of Things],...")
• 17:05, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Belonging (Created page with "===Definition=== Belonging is the experience of being an accepted member of a group — of mattering to others and being recognised as one of them. It is distinguished from mere social contact by its reciprocity and its stability: belonging requires that the relationship persist and that the person believe it will. ===The Need to Belong=== Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary's 1995 review established the standard formulation, arguing that the need to belong is a '''fundamenta...")
• 17:04, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Awe (Created page with "===Definition=== Awe is the emotion arising from an encounter with something vast enough to exceed a person's existing frame of reference, and which therefore requires that frame to be revised. Dacher Keltner and Jonathan Haidt identify two necessary features: '''perceived vastness''' — physical, conceptual, social or temporal — and a '''need for accommodation''', the requirement that existing mental structures be adjusted to take in what has been encountered.<ref>K...")
• 16:30, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Ars Memorativa in the Interactive City: Private Layers, Sublime Technologies in Public Spaces (Created page with "===Author=== Tapio Mäkelä, Finnish media artist, curator and researcher, a founder of m-cult (the Helsinki centre for new media culture) and a long-standing figure in the Nordic locative media scene. ===Citation=== Mäkelä, Tapio. "Ars Memorativa in the Interactive City: Private Layers, Sublime Technologies in Public Spaces." Presented at ISEA2006, the 13th International Symposium on Electronic Art, San Jose, 2006, in the Interactive City domain.<ref>[https://isea-ar...")
• 16:29, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page An Atlas of Radical Cartography (Created page with "===Editors=== Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat. Mogel is an artist working with cartography and public space; Bhagat is a writer and curator. ===Publication Details=== ''An Atlas of Radical Cartography''. Los Angeles: Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9791377-2-3.<ref>[https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/22930/ An Atlas of Radical Cartography], Printed Matter.</ref> The physical object is part of the argument: the book consists of ten folded maps...")
• 16:28, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Algorithmic Identity (Created page with "===Definition=== Algorithmic identity is the identity assigned to a person by an automated system on the basis of their data traces — the model of who they are that a platform, advertiser, insurer or state builds and acts on, independently of who they take themselves to be. The term is most closely associated with John Cheney-Lippold's 2011 article "A New Algorithmic Identity: Soft Biopolitics and the Modulation of Control," and developed at length in his book ''We Ar...")
• 16:28, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Affordance (Created page with "===Definition=== An affordance is an action possibility offered by an environment or object to an organism — what a thing lets you do. ===Origin=== The term was coined by the perceptual psychologist James J. Gibson, first in the 1960s and fully developed in ''The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception'' (1979). Gibson's claim is radical and frequently softened in retelling: affordances are properties of the '''animal–environment system''', not of the object alone...")
• 16:28, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Acoustic Space (Created page with "===Publication=== ''Acoustic Space'' is a peer-reviewed journal published by RIXC, the Center for New Media Culture in Riga, Latvia, since 1998. Each issue is themed and functions as both a journal and an exhibition catalogue for the associated festival. ''Trans Cultural Mapping'' is one of the issues in the series, produced during the period when RIXC's programme was organised around mapping, networks and locative practice.<ref>[https://rixc.org/en/center/ RIXC Center f...")
• 16:27, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Absence in Common (Created page with "===Author=== Kevin Hamilton, American artist and scholar, of the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is also affiliated with the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. His work concerns images, infrastructure and collective experience. ===Citation=== Hamilton, Kevin. "Absence in Common: An Operator for the Inoperative Community." ''Intelligent Agent'' 6, no. 2 (...")
• 16:27, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page A Timeless Way of Building (Created page with "===Author=== Christopher Alexander (1936–2022), Austrian-born British-American architect and design theorist, Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and founder of the Center for Environmental Structure. ===Publication Details=== ''The Timeless Way of Building''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. 552 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-502402-9. It is the first volume of a trilogy, though written after the second: ''A Pattern Language'' (1977)...")
• 16:26, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page A Thousand Plateaus (Created page with "===Authors=== Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), French philosopher, and Félix Guattari (1930–1992), French psychoanalyst, militant and director of the experimental La Borde clinic. ===Publication Details=== ''Mille plateaux: Capitalisme et schizophrénie 2''. Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1980. English translation by Brian Massumi, ''A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia''. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. 610 pp. It is the second volume o...")
• 16:26, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page A framework for spatial interaction in locative media (Created page with "===Authors=== Atau Tanaka, composer, performer and researcher in music technology, now Professor of Media Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London; and Petra Gemeinboeck, media artist and researcher working on interactive installation and machine embodiment. Both were at Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris and associated institutions at the time of writing. ===Citation=== Tanaka, Atau, and Petra Gemeinboeck. "A Framework for Spatial Interaction in Locative Media...")
• 15:40, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page File:Ward-Cunningham.jpg (Ward Cunningham speaking at Amber Case's CyborgCamp Portland, 2008.)
• 15:40, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs uploaded File:Ward-Cunningham.jpg (Ward Cunningham speaking at Amber Case's CyborgCamp Portland, 2008.)
• 14:01, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Thorstein Velben (Created page with "===Biography=== Thorstein Bunde Veblen (30 July 1857 – 3 August 1929) was an American economist and sociologist, and the founder of institutional economics. Born in Wisconsin to Norwegian immigrant farmers, he grew up in a Norwegian-speaking community in Minnesota, took his doctorate in philosophy at Yale in 1884, and then failed to find academic work for seven years, returning to the family farm. He eventually taught at the University of Chicago, Stanford, the Univers...")
• 13:19, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page The Social Logic of Space (Created page with "===Authors=== Bill Hillier (1937–2019) and Julienne Hanson, of the Bartlett School, University College London. Hillier went on to found the Space Syntax Laboratory and to develop the method the book introduces into a research programme with a biennial international symposium and a consultancy arm. ===Publication Details=== ''The Social Logic of Space''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984; paperback edition 1988. Available in the Cambridge Core digital edi...")
• 13:19, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Cyborg Animals (Created page with "===Definition=== Cyborg animals are non-human animals whose capacities have been altered, extended, monitored or directed by an integrated technical system. The category runs from the microchipped house cat to the beetle flown by radio, and the distance between those two cases is where all the interesting questions are. ===The First Cyborg Was a Rat=== The word "cyborg" was coined by Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline in "Cyborgs and Space," published in ''Astronautics'' i...")
• 13:18, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Noosphere (Created page with "===Definition=== The noosphere is the sphere of human thought, conceived as a planetary layer in the same sense that the lithosphere is the layer of rock, the hydrosphere the layer of water, and the biosphere the layer of life. The word is built from the Greek ''nous'' (mind, reason) and ''sphaira'' (sphere), on the model of "biosphere." The claim embedded in the word is that thought, once it reaches sufficient volume and interconnection, stops being a property of indiv...") Tag: Recreated
• 13:18, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Category:Computing History (Created page with "Topics in Computing History")
• 13:18, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Category:Future Culture (Created page with "Future Culture Topics")
• 13:18, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Category:Cyberspace (Created page with "Cyberspace topics.")
• 13:17, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Category:Digital Anthropology (Created page with "Digital Topics information.")
• 13:17, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Category:Mobile Computing (Created page with "Mobile topics.")
• 13:11, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Pierre Levy (Created page with "===Biography=== Pierre Lévy (b. 2 July 1956, Tunis) is a French philosopher and media theorist, one of the principal European thinkers of networked culture. He studied history of science with Michel Serres and sociology of information with Cornelius Castoriadis. He taught at the University of Paris VIII from 1993 to 1998, and from 2002 to 2019 was professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Ottawa, where he held the Canada Research Chair in Collect...")
• 13:08, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Neurological Computing (Created page with "===Definition=== Neurological computing is a loose term covering the several ways computation and the nervous system have been brought into direct relation. Three distinct programmes travel under similar names, and separating them prevents a good deal of confusion: * '''Computational neuroscience''' — using computation to model how nervous systems work. * '''Neuromorphic computing''' — building computers whose architecture imitates nervous systems. * '''Brain–comp...")
• 13:08, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Mobile Technologies (Created page with "===Definition=== Mobile technologies are computing and communication systems designed to be carried and used while their user is in motion, rather than operated from a fixed position. The category includes the mobile phone and its descendants, wearable devices, portable navigation, mobile networks and the infrastructures — batteries, radio spectrum, satellite positioning, cell siting — that make them possible. ===What "Mobile" Actually Changes=== The word is often t...")
• 13:07, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page Matt Gorbet (Created page with "===Biography=== Matt Gorbet is a Canadian interdisciplinary technologist, researcher and artist working on physically interactive technology. He holds a Bachelor of Science in architecture from MIT and a Master of Science from the MIT Media Lab, and is pursuing a Doctorate of Design at Florida International University's College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts, where his research concerns control strategies for interactive objects and environments.<ref>[https://...")
• 10:55, 25 August 2026 Caseorganic talk contribs created page File:Will-self.webp