Thursday, September 24, 2009

Article about Google and Q surrounding Browser

An interesting article that dives into some of the topics/themes discussed in class surrounding the idea of the professional/amateur (especially when you watch the YouTube- Google video experiment) and the larger role of marketing. Basically, the article focuses on Google's new browser (Google Chrome) and its targeted users (people who "don't know any better"). It is not an "in-depth" article by any means, and the video provides a sort of technological smugness in "showing" a lack of public knowledge and vernacular around the term "browser," as well as an inability to offer a further explanation in defining a browser...again, it's this unknown language (as well as capitalization) on this lack that provides an interesting look into our readings/discussion for tomorrow on democracy, representation and gaining "access" to this sort of usage and corporate ownership...

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