- 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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