- hivemedia.ca is the research site of Neal Thomas. Based in Toronto, I am a recently defended PhD who studied at McGill University in Montreal, in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies. My interests lie at the intersection of social computing and social theory. You can reach me at neal (at) hivemedia (dot) ca.
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Andrew Feenberg’s Questioning Technology, available ‘en français’
Philosopher of technology Andrew Feenberg‘s book Questioning Technology has been highly influential on my thinking over the past few years, so I was recently pleased to learn that his 1999 book was actually translated into French in 2004. Better still, … Continue reading
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Abstract for the Marxism and New Media conference
Managed to get an abstract together for this upcoming conference at Duke. Would be great to hear what Alexander Galloway is up to these days, he’s doing the keynote. Social computing and the exchange-relation This paper argues that real-time social … Continue reading
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Defense complete!
Well, it’s official. The PhD defense is over and I made it through the wilderness. Just a few changes to make, principally to do with how I get the historical connection between structured data and logical positivism wrong in a … Continue reading
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Digital Humanities conference @ Guelph
This looks interesting, will be sure to put in an abstract. UPDATE: Cancelled! Quel dommage. CFP: Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference 3rd Future Theory Conference: Future Theory, Present Praxis: Humanities as Digital Discipline University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada November, 2011 Hosted … Continue reading
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Poster for The Indiscernible
This one is a bit long in the tooth by now, but I was proud of how it turned out. It was a one-day interdisciplinary conference put on by the AHCS Graduate Student Association; Brian Massumi keynoted.
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Twenty minutes you’ll wish you could get back.
Towards a discursive informatics from Neal Thomas on Vimeo. So back in late 2008 or early 2009, there was a competition circulating for students to envision the future of social computing. Given that I was knee-deep in a bunch of … Continue reading
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Differences in social computing
The 5th Annual SIG Social Informatics Research Symposium took place in Vancouver, BC back in 2009. It was a first chance for me to try out some of the dissertation research in public, and went okay given the usual disciplinary … Continue reading
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Imagining Citizenship: The Digital Literacies Symposium
Back in 2009 I had the pleasure of serving on a working group with Prof. Stuart Poyntz, in preparation for the SFU-sponsored Imagining Citizenship: The Digital Literacies Symposium. Our workshop was an overview of the relationship between youth media production, … Continue reading
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