MSN3

"...as Germany prepares for an election just a few weeks before the 20th anniversary of that magical night in 1989, the fall of the Wall has become not just a metaphor for what Europe's most populous nation can do — but also of what it has left undone, of opportunities missed." (Mayer, 2009)

MADA MSN3

I carry two worlds within me

but neither one whole

they're constantly bleeding

the border runs

right through my tongue.

(Şenocak, in Morley & Robins, 1995)

"Germany has been divided against itself, and this divide has also marked the separation of the eastern and western halves of Europe. Now the dividing wall has been deconstructed: what was protectively solid has apparently evaporated into air." (Morley & Robins, 1995, p.100)

Tomo Usuda

5 August 2010

"The third great shift in human society, from agricultural to industrial and now to informational societies" has taken place, and "cyberspace, place made of information, will be important to societies based on information." (Jordan, 1999, p.145)

"Twenty years ago the door to freedom opened up and a seemingly invincible wall that divided a people and an entire continent suddenly became permeable."

(Merkel, in BBC, 2009)

visualise perceptions regarding

"German unification is not complete" and political and economic success has "not yet been achieved in all areas" (Merkel, in DPA, 2010)

German unification

data collection

using online live data

Digital communication provided opportunities for "individuals to become producers of media content, with the possibility of access to a mass audience that they normally would be unable to reach" (Burnett & Marshall, 2003, p.68)

"One way to look at the future of being digital is to ask if the quality of one medium can be trasported to another... the answer lies in creating computers to filter, sort, prioritize, and manage multimedia on our behalf - computers that read newspapers and look at television for us, and act as editors when we ask them to do so." (Negroponte, 1995, p.20)

tagging

(and geo-tagging)

References:

Autoitscript (2009) AutoIt. [Online] http://www.autoitscript.com/ [22/07/2010]

BBC (2009) In quotes: Berlin Wall anniversary. [Online]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8351471.stm [01/08/2010]

Berlin Twitter Wall (2009) [Online] http://www.berlintwitterwall.com/de/?l=de [01/08/2010]

Burnett, R. & Marshall, P.D. (2003) Web Theory: An Introduction. London: Routledge.

Five Prime [2010] Flickr Hive Mind. [Online] http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/berlin,wall/Recent [04/08/2010]

German Information Centre Pretoria (2009) Speech by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel

before the United States Congress. [Online]

http://www.germanyandafrica.diplo.de/Vertretung/pretoria__dz/en/05__GL/20__60__Jubilee/BK__Rede__Congress,property=Daten.pdf [02/08/2010]

Harris, J. (2007) Work. [Online] http://www.number27.org/work.html [04/08/2010]

Hoepker, T. (2009) Pictures from a Vanished Country. [Online] http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/pictures-vanished-country [01/08/2010]

Jordan, T. (1999) Cyberpower. London: Routledge.

Mayer, C. (2009) Germany's Election: Divided They Stand. [Online] http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1921555,00.html [01/08/2010]

Morley, D. & Robins, K. (1995) Spaces of Identity. London: Routledge.

Negroponte, N. (1995) Being Digital. London: Hodder & Stoughton.

Pure Data [2010] The Pure data Portal. [Online] http://puredata.info/ [22/07/2010]

Whitelaw, M. (2010) CommonsExplorer. [Online] http://visiblearchive.blogspot.com/ [01/08/2010]

Wordle [2010] Create. [Online]

http://www.wordle.net/create [02/08/2010]

We Feel Fine

Media, such as TV and newspaper, were produced with "all the intelligence in the transmitter." (Negroponte, 1995, p.19)