public sphere

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• A Facebook Group Takes On Marriage (and God) in the Middle East

  
  gnovis - Georgetown University's Journal of Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT) — Authority: 126
  “We are witnessing a fundamental change in how individuals can interact with their democracy and experience their role as citizens.  Ideal citizens need not be seen purely as trying to inform themselves about what others have found, so that they can vote intelligently.  They need not be limited to reading the ...
  2 days ago

• Is humor ever not funny?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  "The Office" has gotten a lot of attention over the past week or so for its Halloween episode , which showed boss Michael Scott in a noose, sharing a particularly poorly worded suicide prevention message. I was struck by how a similar image, also in the public sphere this past week, generated a different kind of ...
  4 days ago

• Science as Polemic

  
  ThickCulture — Authority: 113
  Charles Kurzman’s recent essay in the Chronicle Review , “Social Science on Trial: Reading Weber in Tehran” ( http://chronicle.com/article/Social-Science-on-Trial-in/48949/ ), seems to confirm much of what we already suspect about non-Western fundamentalist regimes. Namely, that religious government and civil ...
  5 days ago

• Trillions and the Age of Ubiquitous Computing

  
  Woodland Shoppers Paradise — Authority: 121
  Click the image for an interesting note on trillions and the next revolution in computing... Some interesting quotes: "Trillions of computers: This is not computing as a place, or computing as a big calculator. Its going to be computing as an ecology. Its all around us. Not information in the computers, but people ...
  5 days ago

• Cheap Bikes, High Cost

  
  Woodland Shoppers Paradise — Authority: 121
  Steven Erlanger ( NYT , registration may be required) writes a sad yet strangely hopeful article about the current state of an ultracheap bicycle rental program in Paris, a means to reduce carbon emissions and enhance healthy living. The problem is that 80 percent of the first bikes in the program have been trashed or ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dennis Prager Disagrees With Giving Jewish Kids Distinctively Jewish Names

  
  Your Moral Leader — Authority: 146
  Dennis said on his radio show today that he disagrees with Jewish parents who give their kids distinctively Jewish names. I guess he means names such as Dovid or Shmuel or Dov. Dennis says they should have their Hebrew names and then their English names, which they use in the wider American culture. Dennis also does ...
  2 weeks ago

• From Public Theatre to Public Theory

  
  brianfrank.ca — Authority: 117
  I assume few people would disagree that as more brands & memes vie for our attention, the simple act of communicating has become an accelerating arms race. We shouldn’t necessarily complain. Not more than a decade ago it would have been impossible for most of us to get any kind of public attention for our ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pick Up Your Visual Scanning!

  
  Woodland Shoppers Paradise — Authority: 121
  Remember the scene in Star Wars when an X-Wing pilot shouted, "Pick up your visual scanning"? Stripping away the geek-speak, he was simply reminding us that when storming a Death Star, were wise to look out the window once in a while. Thats good advice, especially as more and more people wander the lanes and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Text-Talk, Like Kudzu, Continues to Colonize

  
  Woodland Shoppers Paradise — Authority: 121
  Earlier this month, I came across a CNN story [ link ] about a reality show performer named Kandi Burruss whose fiance, Ashley "A.J." Jewell, was beaten to death at a strip club called "Body Tap." You cant make these names up, but thats not my point. What struck me (so to speak) was CNNs inclusion of Kandis Twitter ...
  2 weeks ago

• MLM Business - The Information You Should Know About

  
  Start Your Own Online Business Presence — Authority: 148
  Quite dramatically the presence of Ebay, Amazon.com and other virtual department stores rubbed shoulders with the national advertising campaigns of the largest department store chains. Indeed, even the chains such as Toys’RUs made concerted efforts to have a Web presence and compete directly with the e-retailers. ...
  3 weeks ago

• MLM Business – The Tips One Should Learn

  
  Internet Marketing Blog — Authority: 448
  Quite dramatically the presence of Ebay, Amazon.com and other virtual department stores rubbed shoulders with the national advertising campaigns of the largest department store chains. Indeed, even the chains such as Toys’RUs made concerted efforts to have a Web presence and compete directly with the e-retailers. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Government approves 50 percent reservation for women in urban local bodies

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  New Delhi, Oct 22 (ANI): The Union Cabinet today approved a proposal for amending the Constitution to increase the women reservation in urban local bodies from one third to 50 percent.This provision will apply to (i) the total number of seats to be filled by direct election, (ii) offices of Chairpersons and (iii) ...
  3 weeks ago

• A few links

  
  Library Juice — Authority: 459
  From Salon : “ Is the Internet melting our brains? ” “No! The author of “A Better Pencil” explains why such hysterical hand-wringing is as old as communication itself.” By Vincent Rossmeier. From The Australian : “ Specialist Pleading ,” by Frank Ferudi. “ONE of the most influential contemporary ...
  3 weeks ago

• Faux Revolt

  
  Woodland Shoppers Paradise — Authority: 121
  Last Friday, I was grabbing a beer with a new departmental colleague, David Terry, when we spotted this San José protest. Folks were chanting, waving signs, and drawing attention to their cause. We had to stop a while and see what the fuss was about. Problem is: We couldnt quite understand the point of this revolt. ...
  3 weeks ago

• CFP: International Conference on e-Democracy (EDEM 2010)

  
  gatewatching — Authority: 400
  Readers of Gatewatching may be interested in this: the call for papers for EDEM 2010 , the fourth international conference on e-democracy, to be held in Austria next May, has now been released. I attended EDEM 2009 in Vienna a couple of months ago , and thoroughly enjoyed it; much of the work presented there ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Internet as Toxic Avenger: Trafigura and the Ungagging of the Guardian

  
  techPresident — Authority: 674
  Heres a cautionary tale in how not to manage your message in a networked media age, or rather, further evidence of John Gilmores brilliant maxim , "The internet interprets censorship has damage and routes around it." Late Monday night in England, the Guardian posted a strange article reporting that it was being ...
  4 weeks ago

• MAS Context: Work

  
  One-Way Street — Authority: 116
  For your reading pleasure this weekend, take a look at MAS Contexts third issue, Work . MAS Context is a journal produced by designers for designers, so theres an outside-looking-in feel to the articles in Work. This is exemplified by Andreas Larssons photographs of empty offices . Shes never worked in an office, ...
  6 weeks ago

• Push Poll Fun

  
  Woodland Shoppers Paradise — Authority: 121
  Back when Jenny and I more frequently occupied opposing sides of the political fence - she seriously considering herself a Republican and I seriously considering myself a Democrat - we regularly received all sorts of partisan hackery in the form of alarmist mail and robocalls. After we became independent voters, we ...
  8 weeks ago

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