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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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The Bloggers are Revolting | Steeplechasing
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October 13, 2009. The Bloggers are Revolting. Posted in Emerging Media and Communications. At 12:30 am by alinemckenzie. Back in my journalist days, I was forbidden to write anything in second person. Even something as benign as “If you’re the kind of person who X” opens the door to “well, I’m not, so I’ll stop reading now.” The principle was that a reporter never knows what’s in the mind of the reader. British theorist Stuart Hall. In his 1980 work “Encoding/Decoding” (an expansion of work h...8220;[I]t...
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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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I spent the day fulfilling Manovich’s theory of new media, and boy, are my fingertips tired. | Steeplechasing
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October 5, 2009. I spent the day fulfilling Manovich’s theory of new media, and boy, are my fingertips tired. Posted in Emerging Media and Communications. At 11:19 pm by alinemckenzie. Today at work, I edited video, something I’ve never done before. From the get-go, I was committing remediation. The editing program had four major areas on screen. There was the raw video I’d downloaded, the work in progress composed of snippets of video linked by transitions (both of these areas resembling a film reel...
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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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Where’s My Fat Avatar? | Steeplechasing
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November 2, 2009. Where’s My Fat Avatar? Posted in Emerging Media and Communications. At 10:50 pm by alinemckenzie. I’m afraid I’m going to steal the trick Gary used recently, which he stole from Blackie Sherrod of. The Dallas Morning News. Which was also used by Herb Caen of the. I’m going to start with Lisa Nakamura’s. Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of the Internet. A chapter from her book. Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet. 8220;Rather than ‘honoring diversit...
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Twitterdom of the Press | Steeplechasing
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October 20, 2009. Twitterdom of the Press. Posted in Emerging Media and Communications. At 12:48 am by alinemckenzie. Alan Rusbridger, editor of. Is my new hero. His paper had this problem. The paper’s coverage. On Oct. 12 was limited to:. 8220;The Guardian has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights. Dear Lord. Cup o’ Kafka, anyone? Was an 18th-century British...
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Public For Nothing, and Your Fail For Free | Steeplechasing
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October 27, 2009. Public For Nothing, and Your Fail For Free. Posted in Emerging Media and Communications. At 1:30 am by alinemckenzie. As a chemistry major, I found analogies to molecular interactions throughout this week’s reading,. Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organization. The first molecule I thought of is Prozac, because this is the most. Person we’ve tackled so far. With the Internet, we can bend huge impersonal corporations to our will! Entropy Is Our Friend. By Shirky...
