Webnography
Blog URL http://jennyryan.net/musings
Located New York, New York USA
Tags media, virtual ethnography, cyberanthropology, technology, web 2.0, cyberculture, neotribalism
Jenny Ryan muses about media, technology, culture, virtual ethnography, and cyberanthropology.
Latest Blog Posts
- it came of its own accord. accordingly, it came into its own. on Aug 3, 2009 in inspiration personal life poetry isdt peregrination portugal roadtrip travel
Born alive dying dead, start at the end and end at the head: I am waiting to be born, I am waiting to break free. I call out to the moon, but the wind- it strangles me. Nothing so near to completion can be free. “As California goes, so goes the...
- on the definitions of a medium on May 28, 2009 in musings on media language medium
6:00-6:10pm, aim: b: do you work “with” a medium or “in” one? r: depends on your definition of medium… r: language is a medium through which we speak r: think r: with which we write? r: in which we think! r: with which...
- love to the point of breaking. on May 3, 2009 in poetry interpellation liminality memory utopia
we’re all forsaking our former forms- however, every slip-sweet beautiful now is tethered to the entwined snakes of memory’s web’d pathways, though we stretch toward the intangible HOPE of future connection, dreams crafted out of ou...
- howls from the concrete jungle / human zoo on Apr 23, 2009 in neotribalism personal life manifestos new york
“The city is not a concrete jungle, it’s a human zoo.” Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo. Soaking up the sunshine this weekend, I perched with a friend on the steps of Union Square. Nearby, a group of attractive young white kids with brightly color...
- plan for overcoming the inertia of underemployment: on Apr 22, 2009 in personal life lethargy plans unemployment
Since I have so many friends struggling with unemployment right now, and since my own part-time research job is a “whenever, wherever” sorta gig, I thought I’d share my new plan for breaking out of the rut of lethargy and aimlessnes...
- howls from the human zoo / concrete jungle on Apr 22, 2009 in inspiration neotribalism personal life manifestos new york
“The city is not a concrete jungle, it’s a human zoo.” Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo. Soaking up the sunshine this weekend, I perched with a friend on the steps of Union Square. Nearby, a group of attractive young white kids with br...
- ramble scramble: on narcissism and dialogue on Apr 7, 2009 in cultural production musings on media collaboration dialogue egoverse empathy habit narcissism storytelling
Narcissus, a Greek god, spurned the advances of the goddess Echo (or so one version of the story goes). As she faded away in a lonely spot, her final whispery prayers for vengeance were overheard by the goddess Nemesis. As punishment, Narcissus was d...
