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Jon Lawson

Producers Guild of America - 0 views

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    The official website for the Producers Guild of America.
Jose Nieves

Could 3D Printing Disrupt the Designer Eyewear Market? - BoF - The Business of Fashion - 0 views

  • It’s used daily across countless industries from automotive and aerospace, right through to consumer goods and electronics,
  • rapid prototyping
  • uxottica uses 3D printing technologies to speed up the process of product development in the prototyping phase,”
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  • Using unique multi-material technology, customers can now even print the rigid plastic frame along with the clear transparent lens all in a single build — requiring no assembly — in just a matter of hours,
  • increase in manufacturers using 3D printing to produce short-run production parts that can be used directly in the final product
  • they are set to become better and cheaper over time, radically lowering barriers to entry for start-ups like Protos, no matter how small their production runs.
  • “With traditional methods of manufacturing, eyewear companies need to mass produce thousands of the same exact frame. With 3D printing, we are not constrained by the same rules or properties, so each pair of glasses can be unique,” said Levinson.
  • US president Obama’s administration has already pledged funding of up to $60 million to a National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute.
Jose Nieves

3D printing: coming to a high street near you | Technology | The Observer - 0 views

  • features the use of 3D printing in medicine, house-building, food, fashion, archaeology and building military components.
  • Three-dimensional printing, also known as additive-layer manufacture, was first developed in the 1980s but has been slow to move out of engineering to other industries.
  • But 3D printing liberates development from traditional prototyping which is very expensive.
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  • 3D allows designers to work more independently,
  • It can be used to produce synthetic bones for transplants and doctors can produce models of organs to prepare themselves for carrying out surgery.
Jazz Hedrick

About ACME | Action Coalition For Media Education - 1 views

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      Media Literacy Education
  • Independently-funded media literacy education plays a crucial role in challenging Big Media's monopoly over our culture, helping to move the world to a more just, democratic and sustainable future.
  • ACME is an emerging global coalition run by and for media educators, a network that champions a three-part mission:
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  • eaching media education knowledge and skills - through keynotes, workshops, trainings, and institutes - to children and adults so that they can become more critical media consumers and more active participants in our democracy; 2. Supporting media reform - No matter what one's cause, media reform is crucial for the success of that cause, and since only those who are media-educated support media reform, media education must be a top priority for all citizens and activists; 3. Democratizing our media system through education and activism.
  • Using a wide variety of multimedia curricula and resources, ACME helps individuals and organizations gain the skills and knowledge to access, analyze, evaluate, and produce media in a wide variety of forms. This work is often described as “media literacy education.”
Pamala Knight

Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis? - 0 views

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      this is about visual reading use to print ready use. What is good to use and what is not
darcy gill

viral video Definition from PC Magazine Encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Definition of:viral video viral video A video that spreads quickly via the Internet. It is often a short clip on a video sharing site such as YouTube or Vimeo that people reference in blogs, e-mails and instant messages. In 2012, a half-hour documentary was produced by Invisible Children, Inc. about Joseph Kony, head of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda, who was indicted for war crimes in 2005 by the International Criminal Court. Uploaded to the YouTube and Vimeo sharing sites, within a week, the video was viewed by more than 80 million people. See viral marketing.
Jose Nieves

Networking Rebellion: Digital Policing and Revolt in the Arab Uprisings | The Abolitionist - 0 views

  • Because Egyptian television and radio were state-controlled, the internet became a means to publicize the demonstrations and evade state censorship. As a result, the Egyptian and other Arab uprisings have largely been described as a series of “Twitter” or “Facebook” revolutions.
  • global democracy, allowing repressed peoples to find each other and network in ways which were previously impossible or too dangerous under authoritarian regimes.
  • nternet and cellphone services were cut in a desperate attempt to stop the escalating protests.
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  • consequences of this action actually increased mobilizations.
  • The disruption of cellphone [sic] coverage and Internet on the 28th exacerbated the unrest in at least three major ways. It implicated many apolitical citizens unaware of or uninterested in the unrest; it forced more face-to-face communication, i.e., more physical presence in streets; and finally it effectively decentralized the rebellion on the 28th through new hybrid communication tactics, producing a quagmire much harder to control and repress than one massive gathering in Tahrir
  • While the Egyptian government attempted to use digital technologies as a way to repress the uprisings, networks of activists from around the world quickly mobilized in solidarity with the pro-democracy movement.
  • Telecomix, a decentralized organization of Internet activists, quickly organized to provide free fax numbers and dial-up internet access to activists in Egypt so they could publicize the events and demonstrations occurring across the country.
  • echnologies still remain an important tool in transmitting information and spreading news of repression.
  • The Tor Project, a free piece of software that allows users to anonymously connect to the internet and evade state surveillance, has been critically important in allowing activists to avoid identification and repression.
  • digital-information technologies both provide activists with opportunities to communicate and network while also enabling new modes of repression, censorship, and surveillance.
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      gave me good insight on how technology helped them
  • Navid Hassanpour wrote in his study, “Media Disruption Exacerbates Revolutionary Unrest”:
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    helps with how the used tec to fight back
javolin

http://schools.nyc.gov/community/innovation/ConnectedFoundations/EDL/default.htm - 0 views

  • Digital literacy is more than knowing how to send a text or watch a music video. It means having the knowledge and ability to use a range of technology tools for varied purposes.
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      Well articulated and brief definition.
    • Victor Cruz
       
      Great definition with examples
    • Adam Myers
       
      By far my favorite definition of Digital Literacy. It's short, concise, and extrememly accurate.
    • Gabrielle Yoder
       
      One of the best definitions!
  • Digital literacy is more than knowing how to send a text or watch a music video. It means having the knowledge and ability to use a range of technology tools for varied purposes. A digitally literate person can use technology strategically to find and evaluate information, connect and collaborate with others, produce and share original content, and use the Internet and technology tools to achieve many academic, professional, and personal goals.
andrew marte

Disinformation - SourceWatch - 1 views

  • Disinformation is deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government, intelligence agency, corporation or other entity for the purpose of influencing opinions or perceptions.
  • Unlike misinformation
  • disinformation is produced by people who intend to deceive their audience.
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