http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/lievrouw Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:30:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At least this one is, the one we can see from the little terrace of the micro-apartment DD and I are occupying during my sabbatical here in Salzburg...Kapuzinerberg, named after those Capuchins (doubtless swilling capuccino all the way). We can't see their craggy outpost from here -- a bit to ... http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/lievrouw/?p=32 How good is this. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, aka the Oscar Hut, gave that well-deserved 'best song' Oscar tonight to Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová for "Falling Slowly," the lead song from that lovely little movie Once. And for the first time I can remember they ... http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/lievrouw/?p=30 Well it's a new year, and it took some technical tweaking and my usual long learning curve, but here finally is a link to the slides I put together of the work of the Amsterdam grafitti artist Laser 3.14...whew! [Click here for Laser slides] p.s. for best (quicker) download use a ... http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/lievrouw/?p=29 Well folks, while we're waiting for that slide show to load...(right)...Yesterday in a local literary-minded bookshop I was browsing around. Nearby, checking out the fiction shelves, were a fortyish dad and his son, who was maybe 11 or 12. They seemed to be picking out a novel for someone. The ... http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/lievrouw/?p=28 [in which your correspondent demonstrates that if she had to write to deadline to make a living, herself would have starved by now] Decided today that it was time to tidy up the ol' bloggish sitting room, it's a bit dusty in here... and after looking at my last post [August, ... http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/lievrouw/?p=27 In the spirit of trickle-not-surge...some August-type thoughts on a cultural favorite of late, graffitti artist in Amsterdam, nom de spraycan Laser 3.14. Story for me goes back about four years, to Sept 2003...was in A'dam for an academic conference, traipsing around the P.C. Hoofstraat area one afternoon, didn't know much about ... http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/lievrouw/?p=26 Greetings from Amsterdam, where Geert Lovink and his associates are running the New Network Theory conference and we conferees are now embarked on a day-long plenary session of talks by all and sundry worthies in the net culture landscape, au courant...(I realize I did a lecture for a big undergraduate ... http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/lievrouw/?p=23 Just saw a report on the BBC about the massive denial of service attack being waged by the Russians against Estonia, which has done the most of any Eastern European state to actually shed authoritarianism and enter the 21st century with the rest of us, mainly through canny development of ... http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/lievrouw/?p=22 OK. OK. I don't have the blog 'habit.' some of us will just come to it slowly, what can I say. But trust ol' Bill Moyers (the Jiminy Cricket of journalist ethics) to cut to the heart of the spectre that's been haunting free speech, and get me back on the ... http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/lievrouw/?p=21 I am fated to play intellectual catch-up...but been carrying around this clip for a month-plus. From the Times Literary Supplement of 1 December 2006. Well it's a review in an outlet we pointy-heads lust after, but it could make one wonder how that shiv slid in there without one noticing. ... http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/lievrouw/?p=20