sms conversations with a cool melbournean today reminded me of this science vs. faith diagram from wellington grey:

original image from here

watching porns online or blocking porn sites on a national level?

The Ministry of Information and Communication said it will join forces with law enforcement authorities and portal site operators to set up an online surveillance system.

Specifically, the ministry will block links to foreign pornographic sites regarded as sources for obscene materials circulating on the nation’s major portal sites. It will block around 180 such foreign sites by the end of May, while beefing up surveillance of cyberspace to keep such hazardous content from minors.

original article here

weirdly coincidental to hear this after watching the film notorious betty page and talking about abbywinters.com today. obscene… in whose eyes?

(conservative-male-dominated) korean eyes?

m/c journal ‘mobile‘
- edited by larissa hjorth and olivia khoo

Feature Article
“Approaching the Mobile Culture of East Asia”
- Jaz Hee-jeong Choi

Jaz Choi’s paper provides a wonderful introduction to the culture of mobile
technologies in East Asia, focusing largely on South Korea, China and
Japan. She problematises the rhetoric surrounding technological fetishism
and techno-orientalism in definitions of ‘mobile’ and ‘digital’ East Asia
and raises important questions regarding the transformation and future of
East Asia’s mobile cultures.

out now.

great marcus recommended today that i should try to publish in this journal.

yep.

journal of happiness studies by springer.
i simply must have something published in there.
i cannot not.