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Software Studies Workshop videos available

Submitted by lirani on October 24, 2008 - 4:19am.
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Last May, UC San Diego put on softwhere 2008, the <a href="http://workshop.softwarestudies.com/">second annual Software Studies Workshop</a>. Speakers included folks like Geof Bowker, Warren Sack, Ian Bogost, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, and Phoebe Sengers. For most of us who couldn't be there, each participant's 7-minute talk are available on the site like little bite sized abstracts of fascinating ideas to follow up on in the world. <a href="http://workshop.softwarestudies.com/">See the vidoes</a>

The Future of Writing - 2 day workshop at UC Irvine

Submitted by lirani on October 7, 2008 - 5:33pm.
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The Future of Writing, a 2 day workshop at UC Irvine, explores what it means to inscribe, author, utter, and collaborate with changing technologies of production, distribution and reading. And all this in a world of transnational flows! Speakers include David Theo Goldberg, Tara McPherson, Liz Losh, and Antoinette LaFarge. The workshop is free and open to the public.