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Bill Genereux

Building a Bridge Between Engineering and the Humanities - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • Acquiring the habit of overcoming habitual perception is one process that brings engineering and the arts together.
  • engineering sometimes works not by satisfying recognized needs but by creating the needs it satisfies.
  • empathy is what literature, above all, is good at teaching
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  • Empathy creates better people and better technical innovations for people to use.
  • Boosting enrollments in STEM is not enough
Bill Genereux

"It's Over For Me" Matt Drudge Warns Public "You're a Pawn in the 'Ghetto-isation" of the Web | Gold and Precious Metals - 0 views

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    The very foundation of the free Internet is under severe threat from copyright laws that could ban independent media outlets, according to Matt Drudge. "I had a Supreme Court Justice tell me it's over for me," said Drudge, warning web users that...
Bill Genereux

Is There a Recipe for Tumblr Success? We Ask Internet Sensation FashGIF | The Creators Project - 0 views

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    "Sometimes you want a GIF to look really fake because that's where the humor lies, but if you doctor it too much people are just like, 'This has gone too far.'"
Bill Genereux

Another way to look at it - 0 views

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    edwardspoonhands: “treblesketch-abscond: “Wait no stop ” One time I forgot what mirrors were called so, instead, said “Face Window.” ” Raw toast gets me every time.
Bill Genereux

Parents call cops on teen for giving away banned book; it backfires predictably - 0 views

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    Parents in Idaho called the cops last week on junior-high student Brady Kissel when she had the nerve to help distribute a book they'd succeeded in banning from
Bill Genereux

Penn State frat KDR had warning about social media before posting lewd photos | TribLIVE - 0 views

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    A leadership consultant for Kappa Delta Rho's national organization cautioned the fraternity about social media three years before its Penn State chapter made headlines for ...
Bill Genereux

Content Curation And The Future Of Search: The Howard Rheingold's Interview - 0 views

  • To be the author of your life, professor Yochai Benkler argues, you have to be aware of a diverse array of options and lifestyles. When you enter a filter bubble, you're letting the companies that construct it choose which options you're aware of.
Bill Genereux

Funny! Orchestra plays Microsoft Windows™ - the waltz - YouTube - 0 views

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    An orchestra plays the sounds of Microsoft Windows. Contains language not appropriate for prudes and small children.
Bill Genereux

How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco's Life - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • yanked violently out of the context
  • reflexive critique of white privilege
  • well-meaning people, in a crowd, often take punishment too far.
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  • He retweeted it to his 15,000 followers
  • If she was going to be made to suffer for a joke, she figured she should get something out of it. “I never would have lived in Addis Ababa for a month otherwise
  • Sam Biddle
  • her shaming wasn’t really about her at all. Social media is so perfectly designed to manipulate our desire for approval, and that is what led to her undoing.
  • Her tormentors were instantly congratulated as they took Sacco down, bit by bit, and so they continued to do so. Their motivation was much the same as Sacco’s own — a bid for the attention of strangers — as she milled about Heathrow, hoping to amuse people she couldn’t see.
Bill Genereux

Women aren't welcome on the Internet - 0 views

  • nstead of logging off, Criado-Perez retweeted the threats, blasting them out to her Twitter followers. She called up police and hounded Twitter for a response.
  • Scotland Yard confirmed the arrest of three men. Twitter—in response to several online petitions calling for action—hastened the rollout of a “report abuse” button that allows users to flag offensive material.
  • What I can’t cope with after that is the victim-blaming, the patronising, and the police record-keeping.
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  • I can just about cope with threats
  • state attorney’s office to convict Macchione on 19 counts, one of which was cyberstalking
  • Macchione was sentenced to four years in prison.
  • Despite his pattern of abusive online behavior, Macchione was ultimately arrested for an unrelated physical crime.
  • he officers she spoke to—who thought usernames were secret codes and didn’t seem to know what an IP address was
  • The officers were unanimous in advising me to take a break from Twitter, assuming, as many people do, that Twitter is at best a time-wasting narcotic.
  • Pew found that from 2000 to 2005, the percentage of Internet users who participate in online chats and discussion groups dropped from 28 percent to 17 percent, “entirely because of women’s fall off in participation.
  • Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman draws a distinction between “tourists” and “vagabonds” in the modern economy
  • On the Internet, men are tourists and women are vagabonds.
  • Nathan Jurgenson
  • Twitter “has a history of saying ‘too bad, so sad’” when confronted with concerns about harassment on its platform
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    An eye opening essay on the challenges of being a woman online
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