Lossy Media: Queer Encounters with Infrastructure

Otaku for Queer Theory and Media Theory

“Close Encounters of the Third Kind” Volunteering, Infrastructure and Governance

This paper explores the relationship between voluntary sector and governance using England as a case study. One of the key issues in recent times is how voluntary organizations sustain themselves. Although the spate of studies have undoubtedly advanced the state of knowledge about voluntary organisations, we still know very little about the internal composition and operation of volunteer organi...

Compact Lossy Inductance Simulators With Electronic Control

In this paper two R‑L network simulator configurations employing a single VDDIBA, one resistance and one grounded capacitance are presented. The first configuration is a grounded series resistor-inductor (R‑L) network simulator and the second configuration is intended for grounded parallel resister-inductor (R‑L) circuit simulation. Both the proposed circuits enjoy several beneficial features s...

An Infrastructure for Participatory Media

Purchasing decisions can be hard to make. For example, the decision to purchase a house by a person can be based on many parameters such as the price of the house, distance from her workplace, quietness of the neighborhood, etc. It is hard to capture all such parameters in a recommender system or a knowledge-sharing website. Further, many such parameters are highly subjective and difficult to e...

The Infrastructure of Experience and the Experience of Infrastructure: Meaning and Structure in Everyday Encounters with Space

Although current developments in ubiquitous and pervasive computing are driven largely by technological opportunities, they have radical implications not just for technology design but also for the ways in which we experience and interaction with computation. In particular, the move of computation “off the desktop” and into the world, whether embedded in the environment around us or carried or ...