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798) Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of the state capitals
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792) Jazz Protest Music: The Freedom Now Suite
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782) Making Mothers of Fake Babies
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780) Debunking the "Eat Local" Myth
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773) The discourse of engineering needs to be expanded
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766) Facebook Viral Campaign
(764) Tracking the trackers: Unmasking wiki
http://folksonomy.org.uk/?s=764
Utterance:
Next month US based artist Wayne Clements will present a new variation of his un_wiki project specifically for Window. Clement’s Neutral 3 script filters through electronic encyclop[a]edia Wikipedia’s recent pages log, ignoring hundreds of edits on boyfriends, tech trends, and local events, in search of something more sinister. The software contains a list of ‘shadowy editors’ – from defense departments in the US and Australia through to corporate giants like Deutsche Bank, Shell Oil and the Ford Motor Company.
Using tracing technology developed by Virgil Griffith, the artist is able to link the editor with the edited. Griffith created the software "to create minor public relations disasters for companies and organizations I dislike", and has so far succeeded. Australian Department of Defense staff are now banned from editing articles after it was discovered the department has made over 5000 edits. Dell, the American Rifle association, and both Democratic and Republican parties were also caught in the fallout, being linked to 'improving' articles that were potentially damaging.
Of course, Wikipedia "conflict of interest" policy is ineffectual and debateable. Who better to create that article on a new technology than the developer? The organiser of a local event is the perfect contributor for an wiki article on it. The problem lies in the potency of the information - from relatively harmless "graffiti" remarks on [Prime Minister or Aotearoa] Helen Clarke's page, to rewrites of presidential administration history, and changes to crash articles by the airline responsible. -
©Window (Ash Kilmartin, Sam Rountree Williams, Luke Munn)
Image: , (). Graffiti in Redfern suburb criticising the Australian Liberal Party. Sydney, Australia: []
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762) Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians
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761) The videogame based on the McDonald's production chain
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760) Plastic Bottles: Five minutes worth of consumption in North America
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751) Humanities: meaning, value, and significance
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744) The mystery of discourse is not order, but disorder, incoherence
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735) Yes Prime Minister: entertaining parody of the Australian Prime Minister
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733) Chernobyl Legacy: photographic essay with audio commentary
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731) Kingdom of Piracy: online, open work space to explore the free sharing of digital content
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724) A devout Christian is likely to require as much evidence as anyone else
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722) Regionalisation: Educational Reform in New Zealand
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718) Rip, Mix, Burn, Autolink
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698) Bodymouse: the potential of biomedical science?
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695) Jihad videos posted on YouTube website
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680) Bright: undermining the heterosexual love triangle in the heterosexual narrative
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677) Parody Through Recurring Motifs of Suspense and Clichés of Plot
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672) Symbolic Control Through Appropriation of Local Stories
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663) Citizen Reporting of the London Bombings
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613) New Zealand is not naive to the great cost of waging war
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602) art and design students look at surveillance
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596) Database of Virtual Art: a richly interlinked online repository
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588) Boal: the intervention of the art of tragedy
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574) (un)Smart-Mobs: Text-Messages Used to Incite Racial Violence at NSW's Cronulla beach
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567) Terra Nova: collaborative weblog about virtual worlds
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559) Diagnosing Iranian history in terms of European past
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546) Regulation Through Discourses/Practices
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529) the
War on Terror and other conservative catchphrases
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520) historical materialism: offering critical resources for the de-reification of capitalism
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519) ethics question satirising Australian Prime Minister
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518) industrialisation: pin making and the the division of labour
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506) Culture Jamming: Australian International University
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505) Culture Jamming the Forbes Global CEO Conference
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496) Enemy Image: where is the human tragedy?
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494) NICHT loschbares Feuer / Inextinguishable Fire
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490) Christian forces humiliating Muslims in their own heartland
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400) Heartfield: political commentary through photomontage
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350) Seven Up! series: glimpses of Britain's future
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331) Freire: answers to exploitation in photographs
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319) Escape from Woomera: videogame social commentary
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207) Social Inclusion and Exclusion
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199) Faces of the Fallen: photomosaic
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201) eugenics: forced sterilization
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73) urban theory: world systems
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2) Futurist manifesto: War is beautiful
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