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All Things Critiqued: November 2009
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Monday, November 30, 2009. Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet- And How to Stop It. Control. Management. Surveillance. The average internet user probably rarly thinks of these memes when they’re surfing their favorite webpages, tweeting, and shopping on etsy.com. Oh wait that’s what I was doing earlier and I did think of those terms.hmm). Was a really interesting read. To be a generative enterprise and a successful example of how flexibility in content creation can work. Future of the internet. This we...
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Emerging to the left: Great. I'm a scribe.
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Emerging to the left. Monday, October 26, 2009. Great I'm a scribe. Great I'm a scribe. This weekend I had an "Obsolescence Party" at my house. Guests were invited to play the Atari 2600 and Super Nintendo game systems, drink Tab or Bartles and James wine coolers, and bring obsolete items for show and tell. My items were a slide rule and a Bernoulli disk that holds 90MB of information. I don't know what a slide rule's for, ( Sam Cooke reference. Shirky's title Here Comes Everybody. Is appropriate because...
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ThoroughlyModernMeka: October 2010
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010. Who Moved My Congress? However, where Mr. Levy fails is that he doesn't allow for the personal apathy, ignrance, shortsightedness and biases that Lanier is all to aware of. ".an individual best achieves optimal stupidity on those rare occasions when one is both given substantial powers and insulated from the results of his or her actions." (Lanier 9) Can we say Bush administration? How about the Birther Movement? Tuesday, October 19, 2010. Open-Source: Public Enemy #1. Who aren...
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All Things Critiqued: August 2009
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Monday, August 31, 2009. Saussure: the internet's impact on literacy. Have you heard that the internet is making us stupid? That kids today read and write less than they used to and things like facebook are permanently ruining our society? If we think about it, spoken language came before written. Writing was the afterthought. Letters as we know them now are very abstract. Originally though, there was some attempt to make them representative. The increase in resources also has an affect on how linguists ...
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All Things Critiqued: Thacker & Galloway
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009. This week’s reading, The Exploit by Galloway and Thacker, was definitely an interesting juxtaposition to last week’s 6 Degrees by Watts. Watts talked about networks using scientific method and computation, showing the ability of networks to spread and multiply. Between the two writings, there’s a common theme that networks are powerful. Whether its a file sharing. By viruses like the PCs are. November 24, 2009 at 3:42 PM. November 24, 2009 at 5:21 PM. The fact that all things ...
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Four Degrees From Beethoven | Steeplechasing
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November 16, 2009. Four Degrees From Beethoven. Posted in Emerging Media and Communications. At 9:22 pm by alinemckenzie. One cool thing about network theory that Duncan Watts. Didn’t mention in his book. Is that it works over time as well as space. For instance, I’m four degrees removed from Beethoven. The tale involves AOL, Russia, the movie Moonstruck, an anonymous old woman at a party, and, of course, Beethoven. Actor Feodor Feodorovich Chaliapin. Beethoven was Beethoven. Died in Vienna , 1827. The d...
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Almost Like Real Life | Steeplechasing
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November 10, 2009. Almost Like Real Life. At 2:04 am by alinemckenzie. I enjoyed danah boyd’s. Thesis, Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics. I found it engaging, filled with the voices of actual teens rather than a dry scholarly tone, and sensible. As she put it:. The key teen social practices have not changed as a result of technology, but the site of gathering has. (p. 240). Unfortunately, in the end I regarded her conclusion as rather a duh! For the young people boyd inte...
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Balance Does Not Equal Symmetry | Steeplechasing
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November 24, 2009. Balance Does Not Equal Symmetry. At 1:09 am by alinemckenzie. Better use pencil anyway. I’m going to play a game I call Extreme Oversimplification, because I need to hold my own hand and walk very slowly through this week’s heavy-duty reading, The Exploit. Then, tactics change in come the sneaky fighters who don’t play fair. Maybe they’re Minutemen who take long-distance, hidden shots at British soldiers trained to fight in solid, rigid lines. Or they’re members of Spanish. To have a n...
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ThoroughlyModernMeka: May 2011
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011. HUSL 6384 - Digital and Visual Rhetoric - Final Project. Part I: Seminar Paper. From Text to Multimedia: Blogging Grows Up. I believe the former is correct. Let’s take a virtual step back and revisit the question of what, exactly, is a blog. According to Rebecca Blood, one of the pioneers of the medium:. To answer that let’s briefly examine some of the commonly acknowledged characteristics of a blog. Per Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic, another blogging pioneer, blogs are:. The fau...
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ThoroughlyModernMeka: August 2010
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010. The Emerging Media Ecosystem. Check out this headline: "Meet the First Plant That Requires Facebook Fans to Survive.". Yes, it's about a plant - actual vegetation - that requires social media interaction to thrive. I saw this story on Mashable. Today and it started me thinking about all the ways in which electronic media really drive everyday life. It begs the question, "Can there be a such thing as too much progress? Now before you go labeling me a spineless technophobe -.