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Comment on First look at Facebook’s new Timeline features by dustin o'hara

dustin o'hara — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:19:56 +0000

Hi Joshua,
It seems to me that the timeline introduces a concept of storytelling to the identity performance that fb has always required of its users. I think you can situate the timeline within a larger trend of narrative computing. Are you familiar with http://www.qwiki.com/q/Qwiki ? They say they’re planning on allowing people to connect qwiki to their facebook and linkin profiles to create short narrative presentation about themselves. I agree that initially it seems to be at odds with the “ephemerality ” of fb, but as you say it’s a false sense to begin with. It’s interesting that for sometime now many artists have framed their work within the context personal narrative, often blurring the distinction between the ‘work’ and the story or the ‘process’. I often view my own creative efforts in this way. It seems to be a strategie that is becoming quite common… I suspect it should be discussed in terms of social capital. Anyways, I’m definitely enjoying your posts, especially the next post where you highlight the various options facebook offers. Whenever I have one too many drinks at a party, I start to dive into a rant about how facebook’s formal-technical definitions of friendship are reshaping our very notion of friendship. I imagine you might already come across it, but if not I’ve really enjoyed the software studies book http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262062747intro1.pdf Warren Sack has an essay in it, I’m not sure if you studied with Warren during your time at DANM but while I was there he held a software studies seminar that was great fun, I think the seminar website is still online with some interesting essays that might be good readings for the critique you’re building. Cheers -D

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Comment on spectacles, objects, and baby daddies by jody

jody — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:41:40 +0000

fascinating, I never really thought about why I love watching instant replays so much, but it’s true that I always take a firm stance one way or the other and I want to see if I’m right (or others I’m watching with or the announcers are right). And after seeing the replay if the official still makes a bad call it’s sooo much more infuriating, because the right call feels so cemented as fact.