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Mike Wesch

Robert Putnam - Bowling Alone - Journal of Democracy 6:1 - 0 views

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  • The technological transformation of leisure. There is reason to believe that deep-seated technological trends are radically "privatizing" or "individualizing" our use of leisure time and thus disrupting many opportunities for social-capital formation. The most obvious and probably the most powerful instrument of this revolution is television.
  • replacement of community-based enterprises by outposts of distant multinational firms
  • fewer marriages, more divorces
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  • Mobility, like frequent re-potting of plants, tends to disrupt root systems, and it takes time for an uprooted individual to put down new roots. It seems plausible that the automobile, suburbanization, and the movement to the Sun Belt have reduced the social rootedness of the average American,
  • It seems highly plausible that this social revolution should have reduced the time and energy available for building social capital.
  • These new mass-membership organizations are plainly of great political importance.
  • the only act of membership consists in writing a check for dues or perhaps occasionally reading a newsletter.
  • tertiary associations
Mike Wesch

Smart Mobs: iBuyRight: mobile social/environmental info scanner - 0 views

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shared by Mike Wesch on 10 May 07 - Cached
  • NeoMedia Technologies patented the technology behind camera phone barcode scanning a decade ago and they are in current litigation with ScanBuy, who saw their copyright infringement charges against NeoMedia dissmissed last year. Currently NeoMedia's Patent Infringement counter-suit against ScanBuy remains pending and will undoubtably be upheld later this year. NeoMedia has thus far won copyright infringement cases brought against Virgin Entertainment, LScan, and AirClick.
Greta

FIRST THINGS: A Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life - 0 views

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shared by Greta on 28 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Greta on 28 Mar 09
     
    Neil Postman essay on the place of technology and information commodification in cultural evolution and the search for truth.
David Toews

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shared by David Toews on 09 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Second International Workshop on Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG'09) CALL FOR PAPERSSecond International Workshopon Story-Telling and Educational Games (STEG'09)in conjunction with the8th International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2009),Aachen, Germany, August 19-21, 2009.
  • Social Network Analysis Conferences in 2009 2009 seems to be a great year for social network analysis and computer science. Here is a list of conferences I am aware of.
  • David Toews on 09 Apr 09
     
    A research blog about information systems, complex networks, technology enhanced learning, social software, communities of practice, web 2.0 and more
Greta

FOXNews.com - 4Chan: The Rude, Raunchy Underbelly of the Internet - Science News | Scie... - 0 views

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shared by Greta on 28 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Greta on 28 Apr 09
     
    Fox News does 4chan...again.
Bill Genereux

Video on the Web - Dive Into HTML5 - 0 views

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    Open standard for embedding video on the web. An alternative to proprietary plugin technologies such as Flash.
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