Skip to content
MediaWerks
  • ( i )
  • Notebook
    • Critical Fieldnotes
  • Projects
    • Sounds

Notebook

  • Home
  • Notebook
Omniloft 2020
Posted inFeatured Notebook

Omniloft 2020

Read my short story in a genre I call Academic Fiction, or Speculative Ethnography. Here is the opening: On Friday, November 13 2020, a large group of Omniloft employees got…
Read More
November 30, 2022Posted inFeatured, NotebookTags: academic fiction, short story, speculative ethnography, substack
Beyond Engagement
Posted inCritical Fieldnotes Featured

Beyond Engagement

A bubbly and cheerful presenter, Dr. Bonk describes the instructor as entertainer and learning as audience-centered reception activity. This view, however, conceals the complexity of the interaction between the “keeper”…
Read More
November 24, 2022Posted inCritical Fieldnotes, FeaturedTags: attention economy, conference notes, edtech, education, engagement, influence, online learning
Quebec’s creative industries and the pandemic
Posted inFeatured Notebook

Quebec’s creative industries and the pandemic

The key takeaway of this survey is that the vast majority of participants expressed curiously dissonant combinations of hope and uncertainty, wavering between optimism and sombre expectations for the impending “new normal.”
Read More
June 11, 2020Posted inFeatured, NotebookTags: creative industries, media industries, qualitative
Parasitic knowledges
Posted inCritical Fieldnotes Notebook

Parasitic knowledges

A kind of manifesto The parasitic knowledge producer aims for dissidence. There is no time to entertain the musings of established fellow intellectuals who can afford to stretch out into…
Read More
April 24, 2020Posted inCritical Fieldnotes, NotebookTags: parasitic knowledges
From Film Practice to Data Process – Book Review
Posted inNotebook

From Film Practice to Data Process – Book Review

The official book review published [here] Atkinson, Sarah. From Film Practice to Data Process: Production Aesthetics and Representational Practices of a Film Industry in Transition. Edinburgh Univiversity Press, 2018. Reviewed…
Read More
April 20, 2020Posted inNotebookTags: book review
The Life of Numbers
Posted inNotebook

The Life of Numbers

What kind of information can be gleaned from entertainment industry statistics? How do they influence our understanding of film, or television, or videogames as more than just pastimes? What more…
Read More
April 13, 2020Posted inNotebookTags: data, The Life of Numbers
Restoration as performance: live dubbing for the silver screen
Posted inFeatured Notebook Projects

Restoration as performance: live dubbing for the silver screen

Update: re-recording classic soundtracks of the Burmese screen has been temporarily put on ice due to the political instability of the region. It is, however, critical to recognize that the…
Read More
February 25, 2019Posted inFeatured, Notebook, ProjectsTags: Burmese cinema, film history, ideas, Myanmar, research
Murakami Takashi
Posted inCritical Fieldnotes

End of History / Endless Summer: Akira Mizuta Lippit

Filednotes: Toward an Ecology of the Super Flatline: Murakami Takashi at the End of HistoryAkira Mizuta Lippit (USC)Workshop on Media Ecologies | Keynote Tan Tan Bo – In Communication, 2014…
Read More
February 25, 2018Posted inCritical FieldnotesTags: conference notes
Urban Sounds: Acoustic Transformations in the 21st Century City
Posted inCritical Fieldnotes

Urban Sounds: Acoustic Transformations in the 21st Century City

A recent conference at Goethe Institut, Montreal, entitled “Urban Sounds: Acoustic Transformations in the 21st Century City” featured a conversation with sound artists Sam Auinger (DE/AT) and Carsten Stabenow (DE).…
Read More
February 25, 2017Posted inCritical FieldnotesTags: conference notes, field notes, sound studies, soundscape
The Fog of War: Yuriko Furuhata
Posted inCritical Fieldnotes

The Fog of War: Yuriko Furuhata

The fog of war is the uncertainty in situational awareness experienced by participants in military operations. It is a psychological condition directly contingent on the availability of information and the…
Read More
February 25, 2017Posted inCritical FieldnotesTags: conference notes, military art

Posts pagination

1 2 Next page
MediaWerks © 2025
Scroll to Top