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Jovan Maud

The Rise of Competitive Gaming & E-Sports | Off Book | PBS - YouTube - 1 views

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    Short documentary on the rise of professional competitive gaming. Comments by MIT anthropologist TL Taylor.
Jovan Maud

The Memory Bank » Blog Archive » Opening Anthropology: An interview with Keit... - 0 views

  • I have discussed what happened next, at least for Britain, in “How my generation let down our students [5]”. The watershed of the 1970s culminated in the neoliberal counter-revolution that saw Reagan and Thatcher come to power. Competitive pseudo-markets based academic assessment on so-called “objective” indicators, especially research publications. Bureaucracies became more interventionist along with the wholesale corporatization of university culture. What was left of academic community was destroyed by the growing gap between a few established professors who took leave often and a reserve army of precarious young teachers. The publishing oligopoly exhausted library budgets with their over-priced journals, while the academics competed for the status of getting published in them. Everyone agrees that the contents are worthless and are not read. Faced with the challenge of the internet, most academics did their utmost to maintain the system of feudal private property that has now overwhelmed the universities.
Jovan Maud

Gabriella Coleman: Hackers for Right, We Are One Down - 0 views

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    Comment here from an anthropologist of hackers.
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