[-empyre-] OPEN discussion: Digital Interfacing: listservs, blogs, online forums and more

[Renate Terese Ferro]

Welcome back to –empyre- soft-skinned space
February 1, 2018
Digital Interfacing:  listservs, blogs, online forums, and more
Moderated by Renate Ferro (US) with –empyre- subscribers
 
Digital platforms continue to keep pace with the moves, shifts and changes of contemporary information more quickly than traditional publication methods. Blogs, forums, and many other social platforms allow us to Interface with others near and far. This month we invite our subscribers to consider the Interfaces they regular use, listserv, blog, online forum and others, to discuss the nuances between these platforms as well as the relevancy of these formats in 2018. 

The theory and practice of networked technology have been at the heart of –empyre- soft-skinned space’s discussion space.  The online monthly participatory discussion format provides a platform for technologists, writers, artists, theorists and more to discuss current trends in the field.  -empyre- soft-skinned space has over 2000 subscribers as it launches its new website in March, 2018 and its first Editorial Board.  For the past fifteen years, worldwide subscribers have received daily posts delivered via their email interface.  Many of our subscribers respond regularly or intermittently while others hover. Pondering –empyre- as it moves into the future, what other emerging platforms might it morph into?  How has the nature of online digital information exchange changed in relationship to the development of the Interface, the speed of the net, and our desire for efficiency in online writing and communication?  We invite subscribers during this OPEN discussion to share their own experiences of how their online writing and communicating has changed and shifted via digital information platforms and the process of Interfacing in 2018.  Welcome back to all and Happy New Year. 

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Renate Ferro
Visiting Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Art
Tjaden Hall 306
rferro at cornell.edu