Assistant Professor job in Media Studies and Digital Humanities
https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000AP3P
Assistant Professor job in Media Studies and Digital Humanities
https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000AP3P
Born on this day. Otto Dix, 2 December 1891, one of the most important painters of Expressionism and New Objectivity in Germany during and after the Weimar Republic.
The question to ask is, if he was around today would he be happy for his work to be used in genart training sets? Would he be using DALLE 3? If he was a musician, would he put his tracks on Spotify? Do you think his searing scorched earth anti war anti corruption anti fascism messages would go across well on those platforms? Do you think he'd tweet some of his paintings? Would he have a big following on Instagram?
Does the communication medium impact the quality of the message? Do we trivialise everything through the extractive capitalism of our digital platforms?
#politics #art #platformsociety #digitalsociety #capitalism #arthistory
(new blogpost) A time will shortly be upon us when we must decide, make a choice about how we might want our interweb to look and be in the near future and beyond. I think it boils down to a single catch-all choice: who owns the content and interactions of the Internet. ...
#fediverse #platformsociety #datasociety #socialmedia
https://penworks.net/blog/billionaire-platform-society-and-you