One thing a friend of mine ([email protected], another co-founder of SFC Cornell) noticed on Diaspora is that if you edit your aspects' settings, you can let members of that aspect see other members, which would help in friend discovery, especially among a community like ours.
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Kevin Driscoll <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:31 AM, sarv?daya < > [email protected] > > > >> Post your info and any thoughts on the conference! > > Hiyo! > > I'm Kevin Driscoll, a PhD student in Communication at U. of Southern > California. > > I'm most chatty on twitter: > http://twitter.com/desconcentrado > > And am seeking more SFC friends on diaspora: > [email protected] > > Free culture issues regularly surface in my research and I'm always > looking to collaborate or toss around ideas so I'll tell you a little > about my scholarly work: > > I'm part of a research group at USC called Civic Paths that studies > popular/participatory cultures and civic engagement. Last year, I > wrote about a group of rock musicians (Living Room Rock Gods) who > organized a campaign called "Tribute is not theft" after dozens and > dozens of their videos were removed from YouTube: > > http://sites.google.com/site/participatorydemocracyproject/case-studies/tribute-is-not-theft > > You can read more about the work of my Civic Paths colleagues on our blog: > http://civicpaths.net/groupblog > > In 2009, I wrote a Master's thesis called "Stepping your game up: > Technical innovation among young people of color in hip-hop" that > looks at hip-hop as an approach to producing free and participatory > culture: > http://cms.mit.edu/research/theses/KevinDriscoll2009.pdf > > Three areas of research I'm working in now that relate to SFC are.... > * Studying 1970s hobbyist microcomputer clubs through their > newsletters (They were talking about the problems of "owning" software > as early as 1975!) > * Looking to amateur radio, early cable/satellite TV, and BBSes as > models for building new internet infrastructure (including open mesh, > natch!) > * Encouraging social science and humanities scholars who study online > phenomena to learn to read & write code. Lana Swartz (from the fashion > panel), Joshua McVeigh-Schultz (also from USC), and I are going to be > running a related workshop called "DIY Data-mining" next month at the > DML conference in Long Beach. (BTW - Asheesh's 2009 lecture about web > scraping was a big inspiration for this work!) > > If you're into similar stuff, please don't hesitate to get in touch. > > Thanks for starting this thread, Danny. I'm looking forward to reading > more of these introduction emails! > > Kevin > http://kevindriscoll.info > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > -- Alec Story Cornell University Biological Sciences, Computer Science 2012
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