the Internationale http://theinternationale.com content to be different Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:30:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 listening to the Conversation economy http://theinternationale.com/blog/2009/02/12/listening-to-the-conversation-economy/ http://theinternationale.com/blog/2009/02/12/listening-to-the-conversation-economy/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:58:01 +0000 praxis http://theinternationale.com/?p=37 conversation_big

the Internationale helps you listen to the conversations about your issue or brand.

  • It doesn’t count mentions, it maps discourse.
  • It doesn’t use software it uses semiotics and linguistics.
  • It doesn’t look at all webspaces, it uses the same spaces and searches that your customers and stakeholders use to find the conversations they find.

This is all part of the Internationale’s belief that the Live Web is a language space.

You can see who the Internationale works with here.

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the Olympic Arcades Project

the Olympic Arcades

An exploration in words and images of the new, power-full, mobile, distributed scopic regime using London 2012 as a casestudy.

a ‘practice-based PhD’ taking its inspiration from Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, that Paul Caplan of the Internationale is developing at Birkbeck, University of London.

the Project

the App

A practice PhD

the Olympic Arcades Project will run as an iPhone App that:
  • pulls in scopic fragments that I have analysed/annotated
  • pulls in scopic fragments that I have not analysed/annotated
  • pulls in the ‘paper fragments’ which as well as exploring the key themes around the scopic regime, explore ways of writing academic papers designed to be read and read/written in mobile space. These fragments will:
    • form part of the App as an m-book, in short sections
    • be self-reflexive – addressing issues of the practice of mobile reading and writing as well as the substantive themes: mobility, networks, fragments.
    • use tags (rather than hyperlinks) to allow readers to explore
    • remain as ‘works in progress’ with each fragment open to change.
A user of the App will be able to:
  • freeze and grab any fragment
  • search the fragments according to tags, geolocation, type
  • allow the GPS facility on their iPhone to sort the fragments according to geolocation
  • take their own photograph from within the App and upload to their own social media space tagged with ‘olympicarcades’
the Olympic Arcades Project will also include photographs of ‘2012′ taken on Kodachrome. They will be ‘off net’ and their shadows will be added to the “rags ‘n refuse”.

A visual PhD

the Olympic Arcades Project looks at the scopic practices around 2012. It argues that they are:

  • mobile
  • networked
  • fragmentary

and so need to be mapped within:

  • a history of mobilities
  • the politics of networks
  • the culture of the miscellaneous.

the Olympic Arcades Project collects the scopic “rags ‘n refuse” around 2012 from across the mobile social Web, from Flickr, Blogs, Twitpic and social networks. These distributed images may have been taken/created by:

  • ‘citizen’ photographers
  • ‘professional’ photographers
  • ‘artists’

And they may have been taken/created for different reasons:

  • PR and marketing
  • activism
  • domestic

Paul Caplan acts as a Benjaminian ‘collector’ collecting these “rags ‘n refuse” as a mobile practice using a mobile phone and annotating them within a mobile Archive. These annotations will form the work in progress. the Olympic Arcades Project also includes ‘paper fragments’ – extended pieces exploring the three core themes: mobility, networks, fragments.

An open PhD

The Project will be open from the start. It will be developed in the Cloud:

  • MindMeister – the home for the Project map as it develops:
  • Evernote – the home for the “rags ‘n refuse” as they are collecting, tagged and annotated:
  • Flickr – the home for the shadows of the Kodachrome photographs
  • Yahoo Pipes – the home for the App as it is being built.

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the Internationale is a digital charabanc.

There are lots of Digital Coaches that can take you on a tour of the Live Web. They’ve got comfy seats, running commentary and seat-back TVs.

The charabanc was the bus that took the workers to the seaside. It ran on songs, stories and the odd bottle of beer. Most importantly it was under the control of the families, friends and people on board.

the Internationale takes its clients on a trip to the new Live Web, the biggest party with the best conversations you’ll ever be invited to.

the Internationale speaks at conferences, runs workshops and develops Live Web strategies for its clients using its concepts of PASSION and VISION.

This is all part of the Internationale’s belief that the Live Web is a party.

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the Internationale teaches at Birkbeck, University of London. the Internationale built a site in Google sites so the student could crowdsource their learning as well as access Paul’s lectures, podcasts and notebooks.

This is all part of the Internationale’s belief in open source teaching and learning.

You can see the site here.

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annotating Google reader

the Internationale provides rolling analysis and commentary through Google Reader. As Paul Caplan reads his stream of RSS feeds, he adds notes, annotations, questions and theoretical analyses and shares them for his students and clients.

This is all part of the Internationale’s belief that notebooking is a verb.

You can see his shared Google reader page here or subscribe to the RSS.

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