Paolo Magaudda, Author at Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture

Dreams and Nightmares in the Application of Blockchain Technology in Music Industry

Paolo MagauddaApril 9, 2018

The present essay considers the emergence of the so-called blockchain technology in the context of the music industry: while the emerging crowd-based infrastructures based on it offer the dream of an alternative to the exploitation of music creativity displaced by digital companies, they can however become actual nightmares, in which music will result into an increasingly integrated and automated form of financial investments.... READ MORE...

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The Ethics of Inventions, by Sheila Jasanoff

Paolo MagauddaNovember 1, 2017

The Ethics of Invention, the latest essay by Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard lecturer and leading scholar in the field of social studies on science and technology, represents a change of perspective on the role of technology in society, inviting us to reflect in a more concrete and multifaceted way on the implications and problems caused today by technological innovation.... READ MORE...

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Not just a matter of nostalgia: loving the vinyl record in the digital age

Paolo MagauddaNovember 25, 2016

The return of the use of vinyl is a nostalgic issue or a reaction to the digital world, preferring a specific auditory experience? Vinyl: the Analogue Record in the Digital Age, a book of 2015, written by Dominique Bartmanski and Ian Woodward responds at this question assuming an historical, unique and not at all obvious perspective.... READ MORE...

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Signal Traffic: critical studies of media infrastructures. A review

Paolo MagauddaNovember 24, 2015

The aim of “Signal Traffic” is thus to enrich the study of digital media analysing them in terms of infrastructures and, therefore, considering media primarily as situated socio-technical systems that are designed and configured to support the distribution of audiovisual signal traffic.... READ MORE...

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Where do we stand in Italy, with the digitization of cultural contents?

Paolo MagauddaJuly 15, 2014

Where do we stand in 2014, especially in Italy, with the effective dissemination of digital cultural contents and the development of digital cultural markets, compared to the diffusion of traditional physical media?... READ MORE...

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Videogames at MOMA. New Fruition Models in Contemporary Art

Paolo MagauddaDecember 18, 2013

In 2013 the MOMA in New York proposed to the public an exhibition entitled Applied Design and dedicated to tell some objects whose shapes and functions are placed in a specific area of convergence between aesthetic and utility, between art and applied use.... READ MORE...

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Biohackers. The Politics of Open Science. Hackers aiming at the conquest of the world of science

Paolo MagauddaJuly 22, 2013

What do hackers have to do with BioLabs dealing with DNA mapping and testing new modifications of human life? Biohackers is a book written by Alessandro Delfanti, a scholar who studies the relationships between science and society. He tells us not only that the hacker culture has many things in common with the world of science, but also, in a more fascinating way, that the current transformations of life sciences are and will be even more characterized by a mash-up or remix (by adopting the author's own words) between the traditional scientific culture, the hacker ethics and the open access culture.... READ MORE...

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