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Abstract submitted to Research on Media and Education Journal

Inmemory: social memory, locative narratives Gianni Corino & Duncan Shingleton Locative media as a term shares with another term, the ‘Internet of Things’, the very up-to-date attempt to define the technical and cultural shift anticipated in the society as it moves to a ubiquitous form of computing in which every device is ‘on’, and in some way [ READ MORE ]

Short Paper submitted to Web Studies Congress 2010

The Memorable: Applying the Internet of Things to small communities Shingleton, D., Sutherland, K. Edinburgh College of Art Burke, M., Hudson-Smith, A., Karpovich, A., O’Callaghan, S., Simpson, M., Speed, C., Barthel, R., Blundell, B., De Jode, M., Leder, K., Manohar, M., Lee, C., Macdonald, J. Abstract RFID, radio frequency identification, is a technology that is now rapidly being developed by [ READ MORE ]

Abstract submitted to the XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology

You’re Part of the Global Network Duncan Shingleton. EPSRC PhD Candidate. Edinburgh College of Art Radio frequency identification, or RFID, is a technology that is now rapidly being developed by corporations and governments who see the possibilities and advantages of managing large bodies of objects. By seamlessly embedding an RFID chip into an object, we now assign [ READ MORE ]

The Memorable

Glass and RFID Gallery Installation Karlyn Sutherland and Duncan Shingleton Proposed is a working concept for an installation which allows an audience to engage with memories and objects central to the identity of a particular community. Lybster, in Caithness, Scotland, was – prior to the decline of the fishing industry in the early twentieth century – [ READ MORE ]

Paper submitted to IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tagging: Overcoming the Public Fear of Tagging Culture. Burke, M. Shingleton, D. Speed, C. Hudson-Smith, A. Karpovich, A. O’Callaghan, S. Simpson, M. Barthel, R. Blundell, B. De Jode, M. Leder, K Lee, C. Macdonald, J. Abstract Many people associate tagging with negative situations, for example, to track “criminals” or [ READ MORE ]

The Memory Economy: Revaluing everyday objects

Duncan Shingleton Edinburgh College of Art Appadurai proposes that the circulation of commodities in social life can be summarised in the follow way.  ‘Economic exchange creates value.  Value is embodied in commodities that are exchanged.  Focusing on things that are exchanged, rather than simply on the forms or functions of exchange, makes it possible to argue that [ READ MORE ]

Whiteboard meeting

  • September 25th, 2009
  • Posted in research

I’ve had my first PhD meeting with my supervisor, Chris Speed.  We have covered the current projects being run by the TOTeM research group, and how I might fit and contribute to them.  Also more importantly, from my point of view, we began to unpack where I want to take my research.  Resulting whiteboards below. [ READ MORE ]

PhD Studentship

I have been successful in my application for the TOTeM studentship at the Edinburgh College of Art, and I’m in the very fortunate position of receiving funding from the EPSRC for the 3 year full time PhD, which I will start in September. [ READ MORE ]

ECA Studentship Research Proposal

Research proposals are invited from applicants who have an interest in undertaking a practice-based PhD to examine to focus upon the implications of memory objects on architectural design. The research programme will establish theoretical and practical methodologies for the consideration of new spaces in the context of TOTeM. I have submitted an application for the PhD [ READ MORE ]