Arab Media: The Web 2.0 Revolution - 0 views
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The Cairo News Company, which provided satellite services and equipment for Al Jazeera, the BBC and CNN, was raided by police after it transmitted footage of the food riots.
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But new media applications were changing the rules. This was demonstrated by the arrest of a journalism student from Berkeley named James Karl Buck, who was detained along with his Egyptian interpreter as he photographed a street protest. Buck used the Twitter application on his cell phone to send a snapshot of himself and the text message “arrested” to a list serve of his contacts. His friends used the message to prompt intervention from Berkeley and the U.S. consulate. Buck was soon able to Twitter the word “free,” and mounted an online campaign to release his interpreter.
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police finally located him and tortured him for his Facebook password and names of the other group members (the vast majority of which he didn’t know).
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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody - 0 views
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Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat.
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And it's only now, as we're waking up from that collective bender, that we're starting to see the cognitive surplus as an asset rather than as a crisis. We're seeing things being designed to take advantage of that surplus, to deploy it in ways more engaging than just having a TV in everybody's basement.
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So how big is that surplus? So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project--every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in--that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. I worked this out with Martin Wattenberg at IBM; it's a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but it's the right order of magnitude, about 100 million hours of thought.
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Participative Pedagogy for a Literacy of Literacies - Freesouls - 0 views
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Does knowing something about the way technical architecture influences behavior mean that we can put that knowledge to use?
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Can inhumane or dehumanizing effects of digital socializing be mitigated or eliminated by better media design?
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in Coase's Penguin,[7] and then in The Wealth of Networks,[8] Benkler contributed to important theoretical foundations for a new way of thinking about online activity−"commons based peer production," technically made possible by a billion PCs and Internet connections−as a new form of organizing economic production, together with the market and the firm. If Benkler is right, the new story about how humans get things done includes an important corollary−if tools like the PC and the Internet make it easy enough, people are willing to work together for non-market incentives to create software, encyclopedias and archives of public domain literature.
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Last.fm - The Social Music Revolution - 0 views
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed - 0 views
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When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating “blah.”
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since dialogue is the encounter in which the united reflection and action of the dialoguers are addressed to the world which is to be transformed and humanized, this dialogue cannot be reduced to the act of one person’s “depositing” ideas in another; nor can it become a simple exchange of ideas to be “consumed” by the discussants.
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Dialogue cannot exist, however, in the absence of a profound love for the world and for people.
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Notarius System: Notarius - Idea for a Tag-based PIM/General Knowbase Software (2.0) - 0 views
Scientists ask: Is technology rewiring our brains? - International Herald Tribune - 0 views
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More than 2,000 years ago, Socrates warned about a different information revolution — the rise of the written word, which he considered a more superficial way of learning than the oral tradition. More recently, the arrival of television sparked concerns that it would make children more violent or passive and interfere with their education.
YouTube - Social Media Revolution - 0 views
Moldova's Twitter Revolution | Net Effect - 0 views
Apple's Steve Wozniak: 'We've lost a lot of control' - CNN.com - 0 views
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our thoughts go directly into the actions that we want.
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I wanted to accelerate the world's advancement in the social revolution that it would cause. So I gave away my designs for free
Anonymous: a net gain for liberty - 0 views
The New Arab Journalist - 2 views
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