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• How the mobile Internet could change everything

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 434
  The ubiquity of mobile phones and the growth of the internet will converge in the next decade. Luke Allnutt of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty thinks this is good news for the developing world. “While the defining technological shifts of the 2000s were the ubiquity of mobile phones and the growth of the Internet, ...
  10 hours ago

• Sociology, Social Change and Soap Operas

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 134
  Via Agnese Vardanega , this fascinating article: Soap Opera Sociology | F i a t Lux via kwout And apparently, research shows it has an impact (with usual correlation / causation disclaimer): Soap Opera Sociology | F i a t Lux via kwout It is customary to be condescending towards the genre ...
  17 hours ago

• Morees gain, Indian students and social change in Australia, changes in Australian higher education

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 126
  This post is a rather random collection of bits and pieces, just snippets that have attracted my attention in passing. Moree hospital has welcomed a new specialist surgeon Dr Irene Kaiboni to the medical team. For those who dont know Moree, it is a town in north-western New England with an urban population of a ...
  23 hours ago

• ‘When I was growing up’: ethnographic research on ageing in Ireland published

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 434
  The Trill Centre is a project by Intel, Ireland’s Industrial Development Agency (IDA), and academic partners including Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and the National University of Ireland Galway, focused on technology research for independent living (TRIL). In essence, the centre coordinates ...
  1 day ago

• Remarkable Transgender Appointment–and Major Anti-Discrimination Resources

  
  racismreview.com — Authority: 507
  A very useful website for information on civil rights issues these days is http://www.civilrights.org. Civilrights.org is operated by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. It has many useful lists of anti-racism and other anti-discrimination sources and ...
  2 days ago

• I think I have found the answer to why local church members and leaders call me a witch and set fire to my home.

  
  EK's Star Log — Authority: 128
  I think I have found an answer to the vandalism, arsine, drive by shootings, witchcraft accusations, and other lesser forms of harassment that have happened at the hands of local church members these past 9 years: ***People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. -Aesop ***In other words, my lifestyle ...
  2 days ago

• Kickstarter: A New Way to Support Good Work

  
  Your Daily Thread — Authority: 126
  Have you ever had a brilliant idea to do something good in the world, but needed a little bit of cash to get you off the ground?  Well the folks over at Kickerstarter have heard you.  Kickstarter is a new platform where amitious and creative endevours can reach a wide audience who can be a source for money ...
  3 days ago

• Social Change 2.0

  
  Chic Today — Authority: 127
  © giarose/Flickr Creative Commons License Few books can claim to have the potential to radically alter our approach to life and consequently change the world, but none more so than David Gershon’s Social Change 2.0 . As the global economic and climatic crises push society closer to the cusp of transformation, ...
  3 days ago

• Social Media needs to work harder to show people its potential

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 133
  Dear 2010 – phishing, scams and poor service from corporates My first task of the New Year was to block any possible damage from a phishing exercise.  I received an email from “Virgin Media” saying my direct debit had bounced and that I should login to their ebilling to sort it out. I did.  But didn’t reset ...
  3 days ago

• Race shapes teen Facebook and MySpace adoption, says danah boyd

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 434
  Two years ago, ethnographer danah boyd had the blogosphere abuzz with her look at class-based divisions between teens on MySpace and Facebook , writes Dana Oshiro on ReadWriteWeb. The esteemed Microsoft researcher found that Facebook’s collegiate origins encouraged a group of slightly more educated mainstream ...
  3 days ago

• The Apparatgeist calls

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 434
  How you use your mobile phone has long reflected where you live. But the spirit of the machines may be wiping away cultural differences, claims The Economist. The article, that quotes design researchers Mizuko Ito and Younghee Jung, describes at length the cultural differences in mobile phone use, but then asks if ...
  4 days ago

• Free yourself from oppression by technology

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 434
  That new phone or laptop may be giving you a warm glow, but beware a stealth attack on your happiness, warns Yair Amichai-Hamburger in The New Scientist. “Our lifestyles are increasingly driven by technology. Phones, computers and the internet pervade our days. There is a constant, nagging need to check for texts ...
  4 days ago

• Free bulbs - not such a bright idea after all

  
  The Social Business — Authority: 420
  I took in a parcel for a neighbour over Christmas.  It was a free pack of energy-efficient bulbs, courtesy of npower. That was good of them, I thought, an energy supplier doing their bit to help us save a bit of energy.  Helping people to not spend their money with you doesnt come naturally to most businesses.   ...
  4 days ago

• Harvey Wasserman : A Blue-Mooning, Baby-Booming New Year

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 444
  The second full moon in a single month is commonly known as a blue moon, and thats what we saw on New Years Eve.Photo by Vatsyayana / Getty.Our blue-mooned, baby-boomed 64th birthday baptism...When we believed ourselves immortal, as all young people do, there was nothing we could not do. Now we count the victories, ...
  5 days ago

• To Make a Difference, Must You Choose?

  
  SocialButterfly — Authority: 111
  Life is full of choices–some more important than others. I started this post about four months ago, and the question remains unanswered for me, so I greatly appreciate your insights. To make a difference or to bring about the illusive and often intangible “change” …must we choose? What I mean is this: In the ...
  1 week ago

• All Your Dreams Are on Their Way

  
  Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity — Authority: 111
  Sail on Silver Girl, Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine If you need a friend I’m sailing right behind — Simon & Garfunkle Other people may see these turbulent times in terms of loss, limitation, and the end of a good life, but I see it as an ...
  1 week ago

• Pakistan; A Failure of Intellectuals

  
  Haqeeqat.Org — Authority: 434
    POSSIBLY RELATED POSTS: Quaid’s Islam – Quaid’s Pakistan 63 years after the creation of Pakistan where do we stand. Crisis upon crisis engulfs us, to the extent that people are questioning the very... VIDEO: Iqbal ka Pakistan: Ali Azmat with Zaid Hamid & Imran Khan Dr. ...
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• Kabul 1969 / 2009 in One Picture

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 134
  Via Roger Ebert , 1969: And 2009 Well, thank goodness they got rid of the Westernized sluts that populated that country. A good shortcut of what civil war, theocratic governance and failed state do for a country.
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• “In The Blood” – Nadir’s Music Featured in Experimental Detroit Play

  
  DistortedSoul.com - The FUNK According to Nadir Omowale — Authority: 103
  On January 8-10, 2010, experimental Detroit theater company 4THEATRSAKE stages a unique presentation of In The Blood .  “Poverty exotica” rules Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan Lori-Parks’ modern day adaptation of The Scarlet Letter . This urban theater project is a collaboration between ...
  1 week ago

• Media and social change since 1990

  
  media/anthropology — Authority: 125
  I am interested in the question of media and social change, especially from the 1950s to the present. Some historical processes and phases of particular interest include: * decolonisation and launching of multiple nation-state projects across Africa and Asia-Pacific; government-controlled mass media; Suez ...
  1 week ago

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