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Leading scholars as featured speakers in Toronto

Professors Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Richard Grusin and Warren Sack are among the speakers confirmed for the October Toronto event.

Veronica Barassi responds to Greg Elmer's position paper

Veronica Barassi has continued the discussion on methods of internet-based research of network politics, time, temporality and ethnography in her response to Greg Elmer's original position paper. Please read Veronica's continuation to our RFC-section, and continue the discussion!

New Call For Papers

A call for papers has been released for the next event in the 'Exploring New Configurations of  Network Politics project'. This will be a syposium at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada in partnership with the Infoscape Research Lab
22 & 23 October, 2010, Ryerson University, Toronto Canada
'Network Politics: Objects, Subjects and New Political Affects'
 

Shintaro Miyazaki continues on Alex Galloway's position paper

Shintaro Miyazaki has added his
RFC response to Alex Galloway's original position
paper which focused on the protocol and the event of networks. In his response, Miyazaki expands these ideas towards what he calls algorhythmics of network -- a methodology close to media archaeology.

Seb Franklin's RFC response to Tiziana Terranova's position paper

Seb Franklin has written an RFC response to Tiziana Terranova's original position paper on "what is network politics." Franklin focuses on reflecting "more broadly on the crucial notions of participation and science—and the more fundamental ideas of the social and the technical that they encapsulate—as crucial

Tony D. Sampson's RFC response to Eugene Thacker's position paper

Tony D. Sampson (UEL) has written an RFC response to Eugene Thacker's original position paper on microbes and contagion. Sampson continues on the theme of contagion theory, drawing especially on Gabriel Tarde's social theory of contagion. Please have a look at the very exciting ideas Sampson introduces and continue the discussions!

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RT @katecrawford Affect mapping: Twitter being used to track emotional states across the US. http://is.gd/dAEIG (via @LawandLit) 21/07/10
Grusin's topic will be: "Affect, Anticipation, and the Politics of Social Media" #netpol1010 21/07/10
Richard Grusin the most recent confirmed speaker for our October Networkpolitics event! http://www.networkpolitics.org 21/07/10
Things to read: Jodi Dean's Blog Theory: http://tinyurl.com/2vgpynw 19/07/10
CFP for the Toronto October Networkpolitics-event, http://tinyurl.com/3xorbje Speakers include Wendy Chun and Warren Sack! please RT 19/07/10
RT @mattermorph Contagion and Repetition: On the Viral Logic of Network Culture http://bit.ly/d2giWZ by @juspar (ephemera pdf) 19/07/10
The Dark Face of Google, by the Ippolita collective: http://www.ippolita.net/google 17/07/10
Udi Edelmann was talking about this project at our first event in March, in Cambridge, #netpol10 05/07/10
Political Lexicon project (Udi Edelmann and others), first issue online: http://mafteakh.tau.ac.il/en/ 05/07/10
RT @PiratePartyUK Finland declares broadband a legal right. http://bit.ly/c5B14Q 01/07/10
Tentative news...Tiziana Terranova going to be a keynote for our network's final event late April 2011 in Cambridge...! #netpol2011 29/06/10
The future of Digital Capitalism - three takes: http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=657 #ctheory 25/06/10
Warren Sack and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun confirmed as key speakers for the Toronto event! http://www.networkpolitics.org #netpol1010 25/06/10
More on network politics: Barassi's response Internet-Time, Hyper-Immediation and Online Ethnography http://tinyurl.com/32yqaoz @greg_elmer 17/06/10
CFP now viewable for October symposium - Network Politics: Objects, Subjects and Political Affects at Ryerson, Toronto http://tiny.cc/eansl 15/06/10
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is one of our keynotes for the October Toronto event! CFP coming soon! #netpol1010 15/06/10
Tentative title of the event: Network Politics: Objects, Subjects and new political affects #netpol1010 #toronto #ryerson "#infoscapelab 14/06/10
We are going to soon release the CFP for the next Networkpolitics-event, organized in Toronto in October with Infoscape Lab folks. 14/06/10
RT @timoreilly nice. European Union starts project about economic effects of open government data http://oreil.ly/9tyMb1 #gov2 13/06/10
RT @intima Politics of Internet Culture / Interview: Geert Lovink (Contemporary Visual Art + Culture 2010) – PDF; http://bit.ly/a8UUQy 09/06/10