[Nettime-bold] Re: Fw: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #328 - 15 msgs

["Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>]

t,

 Yes, I employ a range of participant observation tactics to
tease out reaction, as well as to sound-out specific communities
over particular questions - beside posting items, links and publications I feel are of relevance
to Nettime. I am applying methods learnt in more than 7 years
research into the impacts of Internet in culture at large. They work really well at
producing questions.

I note this reply to my 'Whites Only Pedophile Club?' post in the context of my unsubscription from AoIR.

Best,

Lachlan


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lachlan@london.com (Mon 03/18/02 at 03:43 PM -0500): 
> Just Doing Cultural Studies, getting some strong reactions, pressing or 
> cajoling where necessary, drawing on texts netwide to illustrate, + 
> intimidate where required. Some spectacular shifts in policy, some 
> testing counter interventions (I will discuss these in Nettime), the 
> pitfalls are many. 
except that you tend to send WAY too much mail to nettime, despite 
perfectly reasonable requests that you chill out. to those you re- 
sponded with some vaguery like 'i'm talking about important issues,' 
which (a) is simply false WRT much of the stuff you send, and (b) 
is a generic evaluation that anyone could make about anything. as 
a result, the probability that anything you post decreases dramat- 
ically. moderators are only human, and the notion that it's some- 
how incumbent upon us to slog through every single thing someone 
sends--particularly after ignoring the above-mentioned requests--is 
unrealistic. conversely, if you're more selective about what you 
send, the probablity that a moderator will give it a serious con- 
sideration increases dramatically. 
this system works for, like, 99.7% of the subscribers. 
cheers, 
t 




---- Original Message -----
From: "Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:12:20 -0500
To:  <cos01am@gold.ac.uk>,d.morley@gold.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Whites Only Pedophile Club?


> 
> 
> Angela, et al.
> 
>    AIR-L unsubscribed me when I sent the following
> message:
> 
> 
> Subject Line: Whites Only Pedophile Club?
> 
> Jeremy, 
> I believe you unsubscribed me, please explain. 
> 
> It is clear that my intervention 
> brought about by a discussion in January 
> concerning the revision and erasure of email archives and a comment by Sean Cubitt 
> "One day the world will mourn the loss of 
> my juvenelia" has been of interest to 
> many members. 
> 
> It is also clear that one reaction to 
> this intervention was a displacement thread 
> concerning unsolicited mail from West Africa. 
> 
> My questioning of this displacement 
> led to a discussion about identity and 
> search technologies raised by Barry Wellman. 
> 
> 
> When I questioned further the meaning of 
> the word 'juvenilia' in the context of 
> widespread abuse in the IT industry, in education as well as in commerce, a great many 
> questions began to arise, some on other lists, 
> some on this list. 
> 
> 
> The list is productively considering 
> a greater range of questions than it had 
> previously, and there is the emergence 
> of a set of pictures of Internet that are 
> very much in the public interest. 
> 
> At this point you unsubscibed lachlan@london.com. 
> 
> The process of questioning to lead to 
> the emergence of a culture influencing not only Internet but culture at large is in the 
> interests of the public. 
> 
> I request therefore that you do not 
> hinder my intervention but help it. 
> 
> 
> Lachlan Brown 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----

> > --On 18 March 2002 13:44 -0500 Lachlan Brown <lachlan@london.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Lachlan Brown
> > > Toronto
> > >
> > > 16 March 2002
> > >
> > > To
> > > Professors David Morley, Angela McRobbie,
> > > Stuart Hall and Christine Geraghty.
> > >
> > > Goldsmiths College,
> > > University of London
> > >
> > > Regarding the Association of Internet Researchers http://www.aoir.org
> > > [see archives Jan-Mar under resources] and the deep seated problem of an
> > > inappropriate culture that runs through the Information technology
> > > Industry in education and in
> > > commerce.
> > >
> 
-- 





> lachlan@london.com (Mon 03/18/02 at 03:43 PM -0500):
> 
> >     Just Doing Cultural Studies, getting some strong reactions, pressing or
> >     cajoling where necessary, drawing on texts netwide to illustrate, +
> >     intimidate where required. Some spectacular shifts in policy, some
> >     testing counter interventions (I will discuss these in Nettime), the
> >     pitfalls are many.
> 
> except that you tend to send WAY too much mail to nettime, despite
> perfectly reasonable requests that you chill out. to those you re-
> sponded with some vaguery like 'i'm talking about important issues,'
> which (a) is simply false WRT much of the stuff you send, and (b)
> is a generic evaluation that anyone could make about anything. as
> a result, the probability that anything you post decreases dramat-
> ically. moderators are only human, and the notion that it's some-
> how incumbent upon us to slog through every single thing someone
> sends--particularly after ignoring the above-mentioned requests--is 
> unrealistic. conversely, if you're more selective about what you 
> send, the probablity that a moderator will give it a serious con-
> sideration increases dramatically.
> 
> this system works for, like, 99.7% of the subscribers. 
> 
> cheers,
> t
> 
> 

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