Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 19, Issue 4
September 2013
Without Sin: Freedom and Taboo in Digital Media
Volume Editors: Lanfranco Aceti and Donna Leishman
Editorial Managers: Sheena Calvert and Ozden Sahin
What is the relationship between contemporary digital media and contemporary society? Is it possible to affirm that digital media are without sin and exist purely in a complex socio-political and economic context within which the users bring with them their ethical and cultural complexities? This issue, through a range of scholarly writings, analyzes the problems of ethics and sin within contemporary digital media frameworks.
Contents
Introduction
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Post-Society: Data Capture and Erasure One Click at a TimeLanfranco Aceti
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Without Sin: Freedom and Taboo in Digital MediaDonna Leishman
Articles
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Like RealityBirgit Bachler
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Media, Memory, and Representation in the Digital Age: Rebirth Reflecting on Lossless Imagery, Mediated Memories, and the Terrorist Attacks on 9/11David R. Burns
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Differential Surveillance of Students: Encounters with Surveillance/Sousveillance Art as Opportunities for ReformDeborah Burns
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Ana-Materialism & the Pineal Eye: Becoming Mouth-Breast Visual Arts in the Age of Algorithmic ReproductionJohnny Golding
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Dancing on the Head of a Sin: Touch, Dance and TabooSue Hawksley
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“There must be something wrong with this, Sally…” Faults, Lapses and Imperfections in the Sex Lives of MachinesKen Hollings
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Copyright and Digital Art Practice: The ‘Schizophrenic’ Position of the Digital ArtistSmita Kheria
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Curating, Piracy and the Internet EffectAlana Kushnir
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Precarious DesignDonna Leishman
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Seductive Technologies and Inadvertent Voyeurs EffectSimone O’Callaghan
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Anonymous Social as PoliticalKriss Ravetto-Biagioli
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Content Osmosis and the Political Economy of Social MediaDon Ritter
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Re-Program My Mind: The Emotions (after Charles Darwin)Debra Swack
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The Premediation of Identity Management in Art and Design: New Model Cyborgs – Organic & DigitalSandra Wilson
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Pornography, Alterity, DivinityCharlie Gere, Richard Karpen
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Do We Need Morality Anymore?Mikhail Pushkin
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The Economies of Language in Digital Space/sSheena Calvert