Working In/With New Media
In a trifecta of insignificant events, the word “bohemian” bounced into my life 3 times last week. Firstly, listening to JJJ on my way to Uni, The Dandy Warhols were played. “Bohemian Like You”. This is a song that I had heard many times but this time it triggered thoughts of how wonderful the word bohemian is. No sooner had I started thinking this than I received a simple text message from a friend of mine, “Good Morning bohemian Ali ”. I laughed and thought to myself what a funny coincidence, although not overly surprised because odd events like that seem to happen to me all the time. You can imagine my surprise when I arrived at Uni and started my weekly New Media readings and there is the word technobohemian. I could see a theme developing.
Technobohemian is a little bit like the word from the glory days of Web 1.0, cyberpunk. I love the way these words mesh together a 21st century word with an old-school subculture, creating a whole new vision of the future. Peta discusses this in her blog.
On completion my weekly blogging exercise, one thing is clear. The world is has been altered by the changing of the media guard. It not only brings new technology and language. New employment opportunities and lifestyles abound.
References
Gill, R. (2007). Informality is the New Black. In Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat? New Media work in Amsterdam a decade after the web. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures: 24-30 & 38-43