A Series of Tubes

An undergraduate independent study Sociology of Digital Technology

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I’M BACK BITCHES~

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over&out

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It's so difficult to get off the internet when there are so many beautiful and wonderfully meaningless things

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Finally, I want to thank Gabe for helping me with this study; it’s been an amazing experience. I’ve been trying to study this stuff in my academic work for years now, working these themes and questions into essays for other courses, and it has been such a pleasure to finally give them some of the time they really deserve (though there will never be enough time for the eternal and uncaring Internet). Also, a big thank-you to craftsandpolitics for suggesting a tumblr when I was having a myriad of technological and memory issues figuring-out a stupid wordpress. I was stuck on that for weeks.  Last, I want to thank raisketch, the first and only new friend I made here during my short stay on tumblr. You gave me the opportunity to connect, and you made me smile so much with that sketch. You made this all feel real in a different kind of way. Maybe that’s what all this analysis is about, how people so far and so seperate can have any kind of meaningful anything through all of this plastic and metal and electricity and wires.  It has been wonderful to explore this mass of electricity and wires and plastic and light, but the time to close has finally come.  I’ll be taking my leave now, to slide back into the anonymous wreath of digital swaddled search, to silently roll along and watch it all unfold, from a safe distance. Thank you for enduring. Maybe, like the Major, I too will turn out a Ghost in the Shell, to occasionally come back, and leave little mementos and current ponderings. But for the most part, I’m signing-off Sayonara, ~ The Pink Renegade 

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WHAT DO YOU WANT A SERIES OF TUBES: A SOCIOLOGY OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY SEGMENT SIX: DIGITAL INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTS comes to an end. Perhaps the most up-lifting take-away here is the integral use of twitter and other digital tech & work-arounds to empower civilians on the ground to act.  It seems pretty obvious to me that there was no “twitter revolution”, but to be sure, these twenty-first century digital technologies networked individuals far beyond tangible abilities. We also see that power to inspire in the other direction, as violent religious extremists & martyrs are memorialized and network to inspire their sympathetic comrades across borders to join in the struggle in Syria.  And, of course, the Americans are still lying about everything, especially their wars, re-imagining them with hipster apps to be stylish and aesthetically dynamic.  Okay, here we go. Final Segment begins.....

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Pure bliss… Nothing is better than striving in the way of Allah azawajal 💚💚💚

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The Situation in Libya, as of 14th Feb 2015

Turkey and Qatar back the Green. West/Egypt backs the Red and the grey/black are aligned with the Islamic State. Thus there are three major factions with their respective backers.

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