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Conceptualizing The Weblog: Understanding What It Is In Order To Imagine What It Can Be By Andrew Ó Baoill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Febuary 8, 2005	Abstract	Full Text
Infostructures, the Internet and Urban Planning By Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago	June 15, 2004	Abstract	Full Text
Foreigners On The Inside: The Cyborg as Loss and Violence By Patricia KL Goon, Monash University Malaysia	June 15, 2004	Abstract	Full Text

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Conceptualizing The Weblog: Understanding What It Is In Order To Imagine What It Can Be
By Andrew Ó Baoill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstract: This article provides a model for defining the weblog and differentiating between its manifestations. First we have the definition of the weblog based on the basic format - websites with posts in reverse-chronological order. Second we have audience, the division between those weblogs that deal with personal issues and expect an audience known to the author, and those that place themselves in the public sphere, addressing a more general audience. Within those weblogs operating in the public sphere we can make a further delineation in terms of the domain of issues covered. Third, and finally, we have the organization of the weblog, either as a hobby, an income generating operation, or a professional operation.
Keywords: weblog, structure, blogosphere, definition, participatory media         [Full Text]

Infostructures, the Internet and Urban Planning
By Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago
Abstract: This article makes links between the development of the internet and online community to urban planning and zoning. It explores the common threads and themes pertaining to the evolutionary tendencies in community development, online and offline, to theorize about the internet's future as a medium for social interaction. While planning, development and zoning seem on the surface to concern real estate, it is noted that post-World War II planning took into consideration communication and made clear the shift away from planning concerning property toward planning of social spaces. That shift, it is argued, is also evident in the evolution of the internet.
Keywords: internet, community, urban planning, cities, development        [Full Text]

Foreigners On The Inside: The Cyborg as Loss and Violence
By Patricia KL Goon, Monash University Malaysia
Abstract: This paper examines the element central to the notion of the cyborg as a figure of postmodern resistance – the cyborg's celebrated politics of irony, ambiguity, hybridity and effacement. The paper contends that actual constructions of cyborgism in social practice today are emerging in forms which offer far less empowerment than postmodern narratives might hope for. In the examples looked at, the enactment of cyborg space requires a continuous return to colonial or Enlightenment frameworks in order to claim appearances of 'resistance'. This constructs the cyborg as a constant and perpetual other as well as marks it through depletion and non-status. The discussion suggests that a more vigorous cyborg constitution might be generated by re-working the concept of its returns as 'emergent properties' or 'niche mappings' within the cyborg ecologies that epitomise twenty-first century practice.
Keywords: cyborg, loss, other, violence, paradox, colonial return, actant, ecology      [Full Text]