The past few weeks have been very productive in my research, and oddly enough, much of it was done reading from paper and then transcribing it onto other pieces of paper. I'm a bit more comfortable making my first drafts, notes, thoughts, and comments with a pen, and then consolidating them through type.
I'm currently organizing and compiling my reading list for the term. I'm breaking it down into topics that all come together in the end to paint a larger picture of my research.
I'm starting at the beginning with readings on the history of the Internet. Just finished a reading in 'Electronic Media: Then, Now and Later which I will write more about after I look over my notes.
My partner sent me a link today that I consider to be one of the missing links into the research of Internet aesthetics. Not Internet Art aesthetics, but more the aesthetics adopted and perpetuated by the common 2.0 user.
Funnily enough, this gem of a website I found is created by Net artists and theorists Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied who edited DIGITAL FOLKLORE, a book I'm trying to get my hands on (and will have access to in a few weeks).
On Nov 1, 2010, Olia and Dragan bought a 2 TB disk of Geocities pages from a group that archived Geocities sites when, in fall 2009, Yahoo shut it down.
The website/blog: http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/ is an inventory of the duo's findings. It's a sort of archeological dig of a time before (and a little bit during) "Having a page on there became a synonym for dilettantism and bad taste. Furthermore, the time of personal home pages was counted, being replaced with profiles on social networks." (website).
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