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purplekimchi

Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing - Boing Boing - 0 views

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    Anticipating our Zittrain reading later in the semester..
norma martin

Afrofuturism as an Extension of the Black Arts Movement | - 0 views

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    I think I need to explore this term some more...
norma martin

Digital Soul: The Computer, Imagination and Social Change - The Root - 0 views

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    An awesome blend of digital and culture.
Lari Tanner

The Daily Dot - Alex Day and the dangers of YouTube celebrity culture - 0 views

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    Talk about blurred lines on what and who is a celeb now-a-days. Totally gonna use some of this for my Fandom paper. If applicable of course. :)
norma martin

Who Needs to Know How to Code - 0 views

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    To Build Websites and apps, adults (and kids) are flocking to coding classes
purplekimchi

Keurig: Your New Coffee Overlord » Cyborgology - 0 views

  • Don’t mistake this as anything other than a test run for the future.
  • As a trial run, I’m not optimistic that it will work out well for them. But I think that this stands as yet more evidence that DRM-creep is something to watch for
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    New Keurig coffee makers will have DRM and will not work with any other coffee pods. I use a pod that minimizes the plastic and the little plastic it does use is corn based and biodegradable. I inherited my keurig from my partner's office (they were going to throw it away for a very silly reason!) and it looks like i won't ever purchase one for myself.
norma martin

22 File-Sharing Tools for Easy Collaboration - 0 views

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    I will definitely need more than one of these before I finish grad school. LOL!
purplekimchi

Unintended - and Anti-Social - Consequences of Social Media Use - 0 views

  • Simultaneously, though, we must understand that Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and other profit-driven companies are not neutral platforms for these conversations.
  • tech industrialists are the Rockefellers of this century, with profit, not innovation or the social good, as their primary motive
  • The lobby group FWD.us, brought to us by founders and investors of Facebook, LinkedIn and Spotify, among others, famously supported the Keystone XL oil pipeline with millions in pro-pipeline advertising
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  • Peers.org, an initiative launched by "sharing economy" companies like the home-subletting site Airbnb, have resisted government regulation, even as disability advocates fear services like the "rideshare" service Uber are increasing inequality between people with and without disabilities
  • they're doing everything they can to avoid paying taxes
  • gentrification
  • San Francisco has lost at least 40 percent of its black population since 1990, more than any other major city
  • But the fact is tech companies continue the practices of devaluation of racialized and feminized labor on a global scale
  • There are no easy answers
  • Another answer is for tech workers to, in tech lingo, disrupt the industry's exploitation by developing alternative tools for connecting us all. Firefox, LibreOffice, PirateBay, Wikipedia and WordPress are all widely used technology-based tools created by organizations that don't count profit as their foremost objective.
  • More important, we can organize with and support the media and activists that already are doing this work, like the Bay Area's POOR Magazine
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    A more nuanced approach to the social media is anti-social argument
norma martin

Gotham Gal: Dove's Selfies - 0 views

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    An interesting social media project via Dove. The girls were more comfortable about who they are than their mothers were.
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    There was this great project last year that asked girls to ask what they liked best about either themselves or their bodies and the responses were so cool. One girl really loved her feet because they could take her anywhere!
norma martin

Hemingway Doesn't Always Live Up To His Code - 0 views

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    A Hemingway App doesn't like Papa's Words. LOL!
norma martin

How a crime becomes political: Nieman Journalism Lab - 1 views

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    A new paper out of MIT's Center for Civic Media uses Media Cloud and other tools to map how the story of Trayvon Marton's death was told -- and evolved.
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    This is really interesting. I also like that the tool is available for anyone to use. I'm going to add it to the tools list in #digitaltext
norma martin

Every Dog Has Its Data - 0 views

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    big data has gone to the dogs.
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