Masters of Media

It’s always a pleasure to hear publishers hash out their anxieties about the future. You get passionate, articulate types – it takes fanatic bibliophilia to enter into the business to begin with – who pounce on the issue with impressively granular exposition. In other words, gather a bunch of publishers and writers to rant about the Internet, and you get…

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Starting from today, I will publish my thesis From Metaphysics to Metadata. Aesthetics and Politics of Interface on this blog. Since nobody wants to read some 70 pages in blog format,  I’m attaching it in four separate PDFs introduced by as many short abstracts. So here it goes, I hope to receive some feedback.

INTRODUCTION – ABSTRACT [Download full PDF: NicolaBozzi_MP2MD_Introduction]

This work is…

Hereby I post my MA thesis ‘The Politics of Social Media. Facebook: Control and Resistance’ for anyone who is interested in the political dimension of social media. A link to the full PDF can be found below.

Abstract
This thesis examines the governance of contemporary social media and the potential of resistance. In particular, it sheds light on several cases in which…

In their book Remediation Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin argue that new visual media achieve cultural significance by refashioning earlier media. New media define themselves in relationship to older media. Remediation operates in two directions: older media tries to appropriate and refashion digital media and digital media tries to refashion older media. Their claim is: “remediation is a defining characteristic…

In “Immersion vs. Interactivity: Virtual Reality and Literary Theory” Marie-Laure Ryan explores the problematics of Virtual literature. Marie-Laure Ryan is a literary scholar and critic. She has written several books and articles concerning narratology, fiction and cyberculture, and she has been awarded several times for her work. Ryan has a diverse background. She has studied literature, linguistics, German, French and…

My master thesis is finished! I’ve made it available for download here for everyone interested in hybrid folksonomy/ontology Web organization.

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Automated Ontology Structure in Folksonomy (.pdf,  3100 kb)

Abstract
The purpose of this research is to evaluate automated folksonomy refinement through algorithms, which constitutes a hybrid folksonomy/ontology Web organization. While in most contemporary literature folksonomy and classic taxonomic organization are opposed, this study attempts…

This is the second part of my thesis From Metaphysics to Metadata. Aesthetics and Politics of Interface. Here’s the first part.

ABSTRACT [Or download full PDF: NicolaBozzi_MP2MD_Channels]

Starting from the example of urban simulacra (in form of virtual environments, mapping applications, or augmented reality renderings), in this chapter I introduce how a virtual infrastructure actualizes into an interface by means of metadata.…

Sandbox Berlin (2007) Aram Bartholl

The past few months I have been working on my master thesis. The aim of this thesis was to research human perception of space and of time, as well as of the body, and how digital new media have an influence on it. I believe that digital new media are changing our relational modalities toward space…

Here’s my thesis, relevant for any fan of cyborg studies: Fellow Sorcerers PDF

Abstract

Beginning in the industrial revolution and possibly before, the balance of animal life has tipped away from a state of autonomy to a state of subjection and suffering under the influence of the human. The ‘Anthropocene,’ a geological era characterized by the complete dominance of mankind, is…

This is the third part of my thesis From Metaphysics to Metadata. Aesthetics and Politics of Interface. Check back to read the first part and the second part.

ABSTRACT [Or download the full PDF: NicolaBozzi_MP2MD_Figures]

In this chapter I define four main types of metadata and four stereotypical figures to exemplify each of them respectively: structural metadata (the Nerd), textural metadata (the Hipster), body metadata (the…

Here’s the final version of my thesis which covers the nature and implications of (participatory) surveillance in the field of social media, and specifically in life-streaming services like Twitter and Facebook. (PDF can be downloaded here).
Introduction:

In this thesis, I will investigate the use and organization of so-called ‘life-streams’, a term that is described by blogger John Borthwick as “real time,…

This is the conclusion of my thesis From Metaphysics to Metadata. Aesthetics and Politics of Interface. Click to read the first, second, and third part.

ABSTRACT [Or download the full PDF: NicolaBozzi_MP2MD_Conclusion]

In the conclusion of my work I give a few examples of how new stereotypes can be created and spread through the media, thus modifying the interface by the creation…

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