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Gideon Burton

What Are Journalists For? - Rosen, Jay - Yale University Press - 0 views

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journalists jay rosen civic journalism

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  • Gideon Burton on 27 Oct 10
     
    Rosen discusses civic journalism in the era of participatory culture.
Megan Stern

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Project Gutenberg - 0 views

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digiciv Modernism Dostoyevsky

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  • Megan Stern on 27 Oct 10
     
    One of my favorite books ever. Raskolnikov kills two women to prove that he is one of the "supermen" Nietzche talks about as being able to rise above the moral structure of God, which, according to Nietzsche, is now dead. "Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?"
Shuan Pai

Psychology, Eighth Edition - 0 views

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    My AP Psych book website from high school
Katherine Chipman

Wassily Kandinsky - biography, paintings, books - 0 views

www.wassilykandinsky.net

wassily kandinsky

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  • Wassily Wasilyevich Kandinsky was born on December, 16th (4), 1866 in Moscow, in a well-to-do family of a businessman in a good cultural environment.
  • Katherine Chipman on 28 Oct 10
     
    Great information about Wassily Kandinsky!
anonymous

Recaptcha - 0 views

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crowd source digitalciv recaptcha

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  • anonymous on 26 Oct 10
     
    This is a cool way to crowd source digitizing book
Katherine Chipman

Fear! Living Under a Mushroom Cloud, a collection at the Museum at the Wisconsin Histor... - 0 views

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atomic

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  • America's post-World War II period is often portrayed as a time of affluence and contentment, but fear of atomic war and Communist infiltration also marked the era and affected the decisions Americans made about their lives and futures. Fear of atomic bomb attacks on the nation's cities helped motivate people to move to the relative safety of the suburbs. Some Americans built fallout shelters to protect their families while others, shocked by the prospect of nuclear annihilation at any moment, sought to live for the present.
  • Once the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, Americans realized a new era in history, one defined by the ability of humans to destroy their world.
  • Positive portrayals of atomic bomb blasts, along with toys and games that made light of atomic bomb destruction like those in the case below, may have helped diffuse some of the fear the American public felt about the bomb by desensitizing them to the devastation an atomic bomb could cause.
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  • While "atomic fiction" depicted possible fearful scenarios using atomic bombs and radiation, documentary sources illustrated the reality. Newspapers, magazines, books, and pamphlets described in vivid detail the effects of nuclear bombs on the Bikini Atoll, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, kept Americans abreast of the latest atomic developments and their destructive forces, and explained the devastating results if a bomb were to be dropped on the United States. All combined to reinforce the fear Americans had about anything atomic
  • Atomic Age fears provided science fiction writers with the inspiration for hundreds of stories, many of which conveyed political and moral messages as they shocked and entertained American readers and movie audiences. Three story types had emerged by the mid-1950s: the first dealt with atomic warfare; the second showed dinosaurs or fantastical beasts awakened or created by atomic blasts; and the third type depicted human deformities resulting from atomic experiments gone awry.
Ariel Szuch

Future Shock Re-assessed by Richard Slaughter - 2 views

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future shock

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Gideon Burton liked it
  • both individuals and societies needed to learn how to adapt to and manage the sources of over-rapid change.
  • Possibly the best section in the book is that on education. Here he advanced a powerful critique: ‘what passes for education today, even in our ‘best’ schools and colleges, is a hopeless anachronism.’ He then added: for all this rhetoric about the future, our schools face backwards towards a dying system, rather than forwards to an emerging new society. Their vastenergies are applied to cranking out Industrial Men - people tooled for survival in a system that will be dead before they are. (2) The thesis was then advanced that the prime objective of education should be to ‘increase the individual’s ‘cope-ability’ - the speed and economy with which he can adapt to continual change.’ (3) Central to this was ‘the habit of anticipation’. Assumptions, projections, images of futures would need to become part and parcel of every individual’s school experience.
David Potter

Site for making comic books online - 1 views

www.pixton.com

digiciv media

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  • David Potter on 19 Nov 10
     
    "The world's best online comic-making software" It's pretty cool
David Potter

"The Kindle Swindle" - 1 views

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digiciv media

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  • David Potter on 19 Nov 10
     
    Editorial by the President of the Authors Guild talking about because Kindle does not own the audio rights to the books, they shouldn't allow the text to speech function. However, this is a big blow to the disabled communties abilitiy to consume Kindle media.
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