{"id":47,"date":"2022-11-02T13:08:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T13:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sociologistinresidence\/?p=47"},"modified":"2022-11-24T13:09:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T13:09:13","slug":"digital-ruins-first-public-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sociologistinresidence\/2022\/11\/02\/digital-ruins-first-public-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Ruins &#8211; first public lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 1st November, we welcomed Dr Vince Miller from my department at the University of Kent for the first in a series of public lectures blending themes from the arts and sociology.<\/p>\n<p>The audience was an interesting mix including TMS students and residents, members of the public and Kent students &#8211; and the Q&amp;A the talk inspired reflected the varied ways that each engaged with the ideas Vince introduced.<\/p>\n<p>The talk covered a lot of ground with the main themes being:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>thinking through the amounts of effort that went into creating online worlds, only for them to be abandoned<\/li>\n<li>what it means to walk your avatar through an abandoned virtual world<\/li>\n<li>the nature of digital capitalism &#8211; the work we put in, the money we spend and produce, overproduction<\/li>\n<li>that these might be examples of failed utopias<\/li>\n<li>the internet as a space of waste rather than productivity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The article that this talk was based on is available <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sociologistinresidence\/files\/2022\/11\/Digital-RUins.pdf\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 1st November, we welcomed Dr Vince Miller from my department at the University of Kent for the first in a series of public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sociologistinresidence\/2022\/11\/02\/digital-ruins-first-public-lecture\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60517,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sociologistinresidence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sociologistinresidence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sociologistinresidence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sociologistinresidence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sociologistinresidence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sociologistinresidence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sociologistinresidence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sociologistinresidence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sociologistinresidence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sociologistinresidence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sociologistinresidence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}