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Tech Monthly readers' photography project: forces
Tech Monthly asked readers to join in the GuardianWitness photography project and share their photos of forces. Here are some of our favourites
You can share your photos on this month's theme of 'scale' on GuardianWitness
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May the force be with you: readers' photography competition
Paul McCarthy shared his striking image of kite surfers harnessing wind power as part of our Forces project. This month, we would like you to get snapping on the theme of Scale Continue reading...
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How Amazon is holding Hachette hostage
By allowing Amazon to put a lock on its products, Hachette has allowed Amazon to usurp its relationship with its customers
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Biz Stone on the early days of Twitter: 'You can be nice and</em> successful at the same time'
The man GQ named Nerd of the Year on his book Things A Little Bird Told Me, Edward Snowden, Facebook and backstabbing Continue reading...
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For when Twitter's 140 characters are just too verbose the 30 types of Yo
Free Yo chat app becomes viral sensation because there is a 'Yo' for every occasion
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iPhone photography awards 2014 in pictures
Smartphones have made photography more accessible than ever before, a fact celebrated by the iPhone photography awards. Now in its seventh year, the contest attracted entries from 17 countries. Here is a selection of the winning images
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Viva Miuccia! Cursory notes on the political t-shirt
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What do political t-shirts as a form — and their content — say about current attitudes to LGBT issues in parliamentary parties?
The t-shirt is a broadcast medium; it tells its audience things. And not just the campaign slogan; more importantly, its role is to confer a political subjecthood upon the wearer that can be read by the viewer.Callout for submissions: Unpaid labour in the language teaching industry
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As part of a developing project, the Angry Language Brigade is requesting submissions about the experiences of unpaid labour by language teaching workers.
The Angry Language Brigade would like to hear your stories about the unpaid work that goes on in language schools.Hermes on the Hudson: Review of Excommunication
Here is my latest essay on the state of the art of internet culture, published in the e-flux Journal 04/14. It is also a review of the book by three New York media theorists that I knew well, McKenzie Wark, Eugene Thacker and Alex Galloway called Excommunication. In May 2014 we had a discussion about my piece and their book on the Empyre email discussion list.
Interview with Astra Taylor on her book The People’s Platform (Eurozine)
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I wrote a short review as an intro to an email interview that I did with the documentary film maker Astra Taylor (USA) on her new book entitled The People’s Platform–Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. The Webmagazine based in Vienna, Austria called Eurozine was interested to published the piece. Here it is. Enjoy. It is story of how a young female public intellectual became a ‘net critic’ and how she looks at the state of affairs in this growing but still marginal cultural field of criticism. How should we criticize Facebook and Google? Astra Taylor on why we need to position internet as a part of the ‘political economy of the media’.
