Locating The Internet
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Locating the INTERNET Trond Arne Undheim, NTNU SKIKT Researchers Conference 8th April 2002, Oslo, Norway
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Because it is always slipping away, the Internet is a frustrating research topic. Once you think you have a theory, something changes and you have to revise it. I presented this at the University of Oslo, Norway in 2002. I believe those in the room will remember I threw a chair into the audience...to illustrate that we must be prepared for change...
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Locating the INTERNET
Trond Arne Undheim, NTNU SKIKT Researchers Conference
8th April 2002, Oslo, Norway
GET
THE
ATTENTION
ALWAYS
FULL STOP[ exit technology]
Seinfeld philosophy
[breath]
”The Internet is slipping away”
fight the noisesilence critics
lead the conversation
fight the noise
knowledge worksocial encounters
motivationpersistance
[sound, voices, traffic, people]hybrid spaces interfering
The battle over the Internet experience
is over
”The Internet is slipping away”
Online/offline spacemaking
The culture of Real VirtualityA Manuel Castells (1996) invention (with
copyright). But what does it mean? May we speculate?
There seems to be an empirical preference for
physical orderings
”The Internet is slipping away”[empirical statement]
”THE Internet is slipping away” [or so say the hackers]
”The INTERNET is slipping away” [worries Al Gore]
”The Internet IS slipping away”[next SKIKT program proposal]
”The Internet is SLIPPING AWAY” [with descriptive touch]
”This is the end” [we see Wim Wenders’ images with Jim Morrison playing in
the background]
now what? [silence]
