{"id":10923,"date":"2010-12-20T19:17:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T18:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-1654"},"modified":"2010-12-20T19:17:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T18:17:51","slug":"this-train-is-not-a-playground-david-john-anderssons-thesis-on-urban-public-pranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/12\/20\/this-train-is-not-a-playground-david-john-anderssons-thesis-on-urban-public-pranks\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This Train Is Not a Playground&#8217;: David John Andersson&#8217;s thesis on Urban Public Pranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David John Andersson&#8217;s senior thesis is called <strong>&#8220;This Train Is Not a Playground: Improv Everywhere and Urban Public Pranks&#8221;<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/socialstudies.fas.harvard.edu\/icb\/icb.do\">Harvard College<\/a>). It&#8217;s a splendid piece of cultural analysis of contemporary urban hacking and guerrilla communication. David even won <a href=\"http:\/\/secfas.fas.harvard.edu\/icb\/icb.do\">a prize<\/a> for it in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>David interviewed tons of interesting people working in the field: Scott Beale, Hans Bernhard, Iain Borden, Chicken John, Mark Dery, John Law, Howard Rheingold, Joey Skaggs, V. Vale and &#8212; yours truly &#8212; Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom.<\/p>\n<p>The paper is not available online, so I simply decided to host it here at monochrom.<br \/>\nEnjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monochrom.at\/english\/David_John_%20Andersson--This_Train_Is_Not_a_Playground.pdf\">Link<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David John Andersson&#8217;s senior thesis is called &#8220;This Train Is Not a Playground: Improv Everywhere and Urban Public Pranks&#8221; (Harvard College). It&#8217;s a splendid piece of cultural analysis of contemporary urban hacking and guerrilla communication. David even won a prize for it in 2009. David interviewed tons of interesting people working in the field: Scott &#8230; <a title=\"&#8216;This Train Is Not a Playground&#8217;: David John Andersson&#8217;s thesis on Urban Public Pranks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/12\/20\/this-train-is-not-a-playground-david-john-anderssons-thesis-on-urban-public-pranks\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-10923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","tag-mono","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/10923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/10923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}