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Noise and Error in Contemporary Technoculture – An Interview with Peter Krapp

Beyond Schlock on Screen: Teaching the History of Cryptology Through Media Representations of Secret Communications

Adoption of open educational resources in California colleges and universities

Reading for the Noise

MMO Models: Crowd-Sourcing Economedia

The High Cost of Free Content: Games & Advertising

Ranks and Files: On Metacritic and Gamerankings

On collegiality: Kittler models Derrida

Noise Channels (Electronic Mediations)

Déjà Vu (Electronic Mediations)

Peter Krapp is Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and there also affiliated with the Departments of English, Music (Claire Trevor School of the Arts), and Informatics (Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science). He studied in Germany, Britain, and the USA, and taught at the University of Minnesota and at Bard College before coming to Irvine; since then he held visiting positions in Taiwan, South Africa, Germany, and Brazil. At UC Irvine, he has served as department chair and as chair of the Academic Senate. Among his main publications are Deja Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory (2004), Noise Channels: Glitch and Error in Digital Culture (2011), and the forthcoming book Feedback: Reading Game Industry Circuits (2021); he was also an editor of Medium Cool (2002) as well as of the Handbook Language-Culture-Communication (2013). His main research areas are: secret communications and cybernetics (cryptologic history); cultural memory and media history (games and simulations, history of computing); aesthetic communication (title design, film music).

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The secret of CIA’s ‘Kryptos’ sculpture, unsolved for 35 years, is up for sale

Computing Legacies

ChatGPT is suddenly everywhere. Are we ready?

Surveillance is pervasive: Yes, you are being watched, even if no one is looking for you

Will Spotify and Apple Music soon be forced to jack up their prices?

Opening lecture of the 16th Image Week debates the glitch beyond digital error

Virtual Espionage

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Dr. Peter Krapp is a professor of Film & Media Studies at UC Irvine.

Peter Krapp: What's New About Fake News? (UC Irvine)

The School of Humanities at UC Irvine presents
Humanities Headlines, Episode 7
"Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers: Debugging the Media History of Control" by Professor Peter Krapp

Are we controlling technology or is it controlling us? In this video, Professor Peter Krapp discusses the registers of control that exist in the earliest technology to the technology at our fingertips today. 

Peter Krapp is a Professor and Chair of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine.
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5102
http://www.krapp.org/
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/filmstudies/
 
External links:
1. Tennis for Two (William Higibotham)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PG2mdU_i8k

2. Original Films Of Frank B Gilbreth
 https://archive.org/details/OriginalFilm

3. SAGE 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCCL4INQcFo

4. Doug Engelbart, presentation at SRI ("The Mother of all Demos")
https://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY?t=3m


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Peter Krapp - "Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointers: Debugging the Media History of Control"

A public conversation between faculty bloggers and student bloggers in Humanities at UC Irvine

Is An "Academic Blog" An Oxymoron? - Peter Krapp - part two

From the Interactive Media & Games Seminar Series; Peter Krapp, Professor of Film & Media / Visual Studies and a member of the Departments of English and of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine examines massively multiplayer online games and virtual worlds to see if they are potential havens for activities that require a response in the name of national security.

Virtual Espionage: GCHQ and NSA Take on MMOs

Scientific simulations have their origins in tabletop military games. Now they sit on the cusp on the unimaginable.A SURF-IT summertime seminar event. http://bit.ly/SeNVQN

Peter Krapp: Simulation and its Discontents

Assista a palestra de Peter Krapp sobre o glitch e o erro digital.

Peter Krapp - Glitch e o erro digital

Digital transformation and the humanities: contemporary technocultural dimensions for research in the social and human sciences

Digital transformation and the humanities

How can technology help us understand and process today's pandemic? In this episode of COVID-19: The Humanities Respond, Tyrus Miller, dean of the School of Humanities at UCI, interviews Peter Krapp, professor of film and media studies, about the video games, films, and simulations that not only offer insight into pandemics but also the means to predict where the current pandemic may go.

Simulating a Pandemic: Technology’s Promise &amp; Failure

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