Category: Interactivism

• May 13, 2020

  A Message to all Parents in the Age of COVID-19
• April 5, 2018

  Social Media and Democracy: What Can Be Done? A Response…

  Last night I attended an excellent event put on by the Public Policy Forum called Social Media and Democracy: What Can Be Done? at which no less than 5 smart and highly informed guest speakers from journalism, government, academia, civil society and the tech sector discussed the state of the internet and the threat of ‘surveillance…
• November 11, 2015

  On Audiences and Meaning in the 21st Century

  I read with interest this thoughtful article by Diane Ragsdale about the challenges posed by digital tools to arts audiences, as well as the many excellent comments that followed. I added my own comment, which I will post here as it was fairly substantial: This is a fascinating topic, but I would argue that our…
• August 21, 2014

  Outlaw Instagrammers and Interactivism

  I believe that the most potent social practice in the 21st century is interactivism, i.e. the intentional design and implementation of narrative feedback loops between the material and virtual worlds. I have written about several such feedback loops in previous posts on this blog, including: Array of Words and the Manilla Street Kid Digital Gift…
• September 1, 2011

  Gifts and Books, Books and Gifts

  So I’ve finished writing my masterpiece, my new book, You Are Your Media. What do I do now? I’ve thought a lot about this lately. Not just because it is of direct personal relevance to me but because the future of literate culture – or OS2 culture, as I call it – is one of…
• August 31, 2011

  Happy Birth Day!

  Today is my birthday and I am feeling good. Not just because I can be thankful for another year of relatively good health, a loving family and a peaceful, prosperous homeland, but also because with this blog post I am kicking off an exciting new phase of my professional life. Giving birth, if you will,…