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symone008

Online Support Groups For Alcoholism - Sober Nation - 0 views

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support online AA #ThoughtVectors #tv008

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      symone008 on 18 Jul 14
       
      - AA now have online forums - Are online forums the first step to finding face to face groups?
  • he “12 step program” designed by Alcoholics Anonymous has proven to be a tangible tool for recovery from alcohol addiction and can now be accessed and followed online with feedback from members of the online support group community. Online alcoholism rehab may not ever completely replace face-to-face counseling, including group therapy, as encountered in A.A. meetings.  However, to those who are taking an initial step toward their recovery, the flow of support and strength to be gained from coming in touch with real people at online support groups for alcoholism can be enough of a stimulus to help one make it through one more day.
  • symone008 on 18 Jul 14
     
    Main article about abuse of alcohol. AA has online forums. 
morganaletarg

The Dynamics of Fandom: Exploring Fan Communities in Online Spaces | Myc Wiatrowski - A... - 3 views

www.academia.edu/...n_Communities_in_Online_Spaces

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      morganaletarg on 24 Jun 14
       
      "not unreal" tell my mom that
  • A thoroughknowledge of the community is required to be able to understand the group, as well asunderstand the individual’s place in the whole. This knowledge allows a group to build asocially imagined concept of communal belief. It creates a method for demarcating who is and isnot an insider, and allows the group to come to terms with their shared ‘canonical’ text(s).
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      morganaletarg on 24 Jun 14
       
      e.g. "my feels"
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  • Often fans are recognized within the American cultural  zeitgeist  in just this way: fanatical, out of control, frantic and frenzied. In point of fact, fangroups are frequently ‘Othered’ by the dominant culture at large as being significantly differentfrom the mainstream norm.
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      morganaletarg on 24 Jun 14
       
      perhaps this may be WHY THEY'RE ON THE INTERNET HMMM
  • we can say that fans are a group that consumes a text (or texts) enmasse , that in turn uses that consumption as a basis for creating something new that is tailored totheir specific concerns. In short, a fandom can be defined by its consumption of a text and itssubsequent cultural productions of and about that text.
  • we must turn our attention to the productions of the insider community. That is to say we must recognize that the urtext  , if it can be so described, does notmeet the needs of the group, so new material is produced by the community to fill the void.
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      morganaletarg on 24 Jun 14
       
      ~*FANFICTION*~
  • “fans of a popular television series[and/or film] may sample dialogue, summarize episodes, debate subtexts, create original fanfiction, record their own soundtracks, make their own movies – and distribute all of thisworldwide via the internet”
  • In creating new artifacts for the group, thus theoretically fillingthe needs of the cyber-fandom as a whole, the group is further able to fashion both an ideologicaland consumable concept of Browncoat-ness and further contribute to the re-visioning and re-drawing of their community.
  • At a very base level these available narrative strains that existwithin the community function as a group rhetoric that ultimately reflects the fictional“Browncoats” of the program’s universe.
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      morganaletarg on 24 Jun 14
       
      are people fans of people like themselves, or do people make their fans want to be more like them?
  • Each party in a struggle over hegemonic power exercises their leverage from time to time, creating an almost ever present struggle in fancommunities between themselves and the producers of their canon.
  • Fans attack and criticize media producers whom they feel threaten their meta-textual interests, but producers also respond to these challenges, protecting their  privilege by defusing and marginalizing fan activism. As fans negotiate positionsof production and consumption, antagonistic corporate discourse toils to managethat discursive power, disciplining productive fandom so it can continue to becultivated as a consumer base.
  • There is a delicate balance between fans and media producers suggested by Johnson. Fansnegotiate their power in virtual spaces, both consuming and producing texts, yet corporate mediaentities struggle to both restrict fan activity, thus allowing them further opportunity to exploitthem capitalistically, while concurrently attempting to cultivate fan production to a degree so asnot to alienate the consumer base all together.
  • Building a complex, onlinecommunity constructed of both a social imaginary and an empirical reality allows the group tonot only form a space wherein they can participate but where they can assert their control over culturally significant texts.
  • n moving to online spaces fandoms remain able to function as traditional communitieswould be expected to. But the mediated interface and its ability to allow communities tocongregate in greater numbers regardless of spatial or temporal limitations, also permits cyber-fandoms to amplify their voice, giving them greater power in space as Foucault would have it.Exercising their power from self-created points in a virtual space allow the community greater    Wiatrowski control over both the texts upon which they’ve created a group and over their imagined sense of the community. In the end, the move to online spaces allows the group to exist both as it oncehad and in ways that are new and more powerful than they had perhaps previously imagined.
morganaletarg

"Xenasubtexttalk": The Impact on the Lesbian Fan Community - 0 views

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lgbt representation community fandom fanworks literacy

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    "This article examines how some lesbian fans of the television adventure fantasy series Xena: Warrior Princess (X:WP) (1995-2001) became visible through the development of online fandom and the production of explicit lesbian Internet fan fiction. The self-identity of lesbian fans who are part of the "xenasubtextalk" (XSTT) fan group is explored and celebrated through social networks of lesbian fandom through the "Xenaverse." Lesbian fans have written copious amounts of fan fiction online enabling a form of lesbian political discourse and activism as well as social and cultural discourses shared throughout the platform of the Internet. Many lesbian fans have been supported to create and write Xena lesbian fan fiction by engaging with various lesbian fan writers from the Xenaverse who offer their advice to develop lesbian fan fiction services for free to "newbie" writers. Their explicit lesbian fan fiction narratives are reproduced and distributed as lesbian stories about the two main characters Xena and Gabrielle from the original television series. I interviewed three women from "xenasubtextalk" who gain pleasure exploring their lesbian identities and fandom through the fan group."
kahn_artist

Technology's Toll - Impatience and Forgetfulness - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Internet technology forgetfulness

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  • If you answered yes to any of those questions, exposure to technology may be slowly reshaping your personality.
  • Some experts suggest simply trying to curtail the amount of time you spend online. Set limits for how often you check e-mail or force yourself to leave your cellphone at home occasionally.
  • kahn_artist on 26 Jun 14
     
    Discusses the internet's role in decreased focus. Suggests people go off the grid for a while, decrease time online. I find this to be a foolish suggestion...come on. People aren't (maybe even can't?) going to do that. This may, however, add to a counterargument I could address in my paper?
Kathleen Hancock

Save the Whales? Save the Rainforest? Save the Data! - Pullin - 2010 - Conservation Bio... - 0 views

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internet

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  • Kathleen Hancock on 12 Jul 14
     
    Sharing and conserving data online
andhearsonars

What happened to the expert curator? | Guardian Professional - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...art-curator-in-digital-age

curation social media technology media

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  • Within these contexts, the act of arranging objects, images or sounds into an order that may or may not have meaning has proliferated throughout the creative and cultural industries. The curator is now a producer: you might curate your Flickr feed, your mates playing records at a bar or an exhibition in your own apartment – a trend showcased by the Serpentine Gallery's co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist, a master orator of what he calls a "global dialogue… in space and time".
  • A space has now opened up – both physically and online – where anyone can give curating a go.
  • What, then, if we're looking in the wrong place for qualified, ground-breaking curators? Perhaps they are no longer in museums, galleries or cultural institutions, but instead in front of a screen – sociable and connected. Curating in the age of the internet is the act of responding to social and technological developments: their usability, instability and the various networks of communication in which they are presented online.
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  • Dealing with networks means that nothing is stable, everything is constantly moving in response to massive amounts of data
  • "Broadly accounting for any act where a person organises visual content on the internet in a way that creates meaning through the differences and similarities of their collected images."
  • relatively meaningless
  • 'digital curating'
  • "curating is now linguistically deluded beyond the point of return to an artistic context
  • people are creating meaning themselves – online, inside, outside
qoll344

Gadżety Reklamowe Dla Firm - 2 views

12 lat doœwiadczenia w branży reklamowej, tysiące zrealizowanych projektów ... gama gadżetów reklamowych: długopisy, pamięci USB, kubki reklamowe, smycze, ... Koszulki z nadrukiem kolor, polary · O...

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jamieparkerson

All of Iraq is in the Deep Web - 0 views

www.news.com.au/...story-fnjwmwrh-1226960562497

Deep Web Tor The Onion Router freedom censorship surveillance anonymity Hacktivists free speech political unrest

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  • jamieparkerson on 25 Jun 14
     
    AS THE Iraqi government censors large swathes of the internet following devastating attacks and victories by the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), thousands of people are turning to the deep, anonymous web. Locals are adopting the browser Tor, the most popular anonymising tool online, to get around government obstruction, the Daily Dot reported.
gerellmalazarte

Online privacy fears are real | NBC News - 0 views

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controversy privacy rights internet

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  • INTERNET PRIVACY is a murky, complicated issue full of conflicting interests, misinformation, innuendo and technology snafus.
  • Complicating matters further are criminals who break into Web sites, steal the information and use it for personal gain.
  • Advertising firms, who stand to gain as much as any from personal data collection, have absorbed the brunt of complaints from privacy critics
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  • At its heart, the Internet privacy problem is a paradox.
  • But privacy concerns don’t always arise from criminal activity.
  • Privacy advocate and well-known spam fighter Ian Oxman was surprised earlier this year how easily he was able to track down the former owner of a used car he had just purchased
  • gerellmalazarte on 25 Jun 14
     
    In this article there are examples of situations where Internet privacy was a problem. There are viewpoints of Internet privacy from people of high stature. Pros and cons of internet privacy.
Kathleen Hancock

Greenpeace Fund | Consider the cost if we don't act now - 0 views

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whale greenpeace nonprofits media internet fund

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  • Kathleen Hancock on 15 Jul 14
     
    Greenpeace online donations
Kathleen Hancock

How Your Nonprofit Can Accept Donations Online Right Now - 0 views

wiredimpact.com/...ept-donations-online-right-now

nonprofits media internet donations

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  • Kathleen Hancock on 15 Jul 14
     
    How nonprofits use the internet to receive donations
taheripf

Web research could give you a bad dose of cyberchondria - 0 views

theconversation.com/ad-dose-of-cyberchondria-20877

cyberchondria health internet

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  • taheripf on 23 Jul 14
     
    "The internet has quickly become the whole world's largest medical library and more of us are using online sources to find out information about our health."
Mirna Shaban

How an Egyptian Revolution Began on Facebook - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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revolution socialmedia

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  • une 8, 2010, has secured a rightful place in history. That was the day Wael Ghonim, a 29-year-old Google marketing executive, was browsing Facebook in his home in Dubai and found a startling image: a photo­graph of a bloodied and disfigured face, its jaw broken, a young life taken away. That life, he soon learned, had belonged to Khaled Mohamed Said, a 28-year-old from Alexandria who had been beaten to death by the Egyptian police.
  • Ghonim went online and created a Facebook page. “Today they killed Khaled,” he wrote. “If I don’t act for his sake, tomorrow they will kill me.” It took a few moments for Ghonim to settle on a name for the page, one that would fit the character of an increasingly personalized and politically galvanizing Internet. He finally decided on “Kullena Khaled Said” — “We Are All Khaled Said.”
  • Two minutes after he started his Facebook page, 300 people had joined it. Three months later, that number had grown to more than 250,000. What bubbled up online inevitably spilled onto the streets, starting with a series of “Silent Stands” that culminated in a massive and historic rally at Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo.
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  • Ghonim writes, the number of Web users in the country increased to 13.6 million in 2008 from 1.5 million in 2004. Through blogs, Twitter and Facebook, the Web has become a haven for a young, educated class yearning to express its worries and anxieties.
  • The Middle East is home to roughly 100 million people ages 15 to 29. Many are educated but unemployed
  • Technology, of course, is not a panacea. Facebook does not a revolution make. In Egypt’s case, it was simply a place for venting the outrage resulting from years of repression, economic instability and individual frustration.
  • Ghonim writes that in 2011, out of Egypt’s more than 80 million people, some 48 million were poor and 2.5 million lived in extreme poverty. “More than three million young Egyptians are unemployed,” he says.
  • Early on, he decided that creating the page, as opposed to a Facebook group, would be a better way to spread information. More important, he knew that maintaining an informal, authentic tone was crucial to amassing allies. People had to see themselves in the page. “Using the pronoun I was critical to establishing the fact that the page was not managed by an organization, political party or movement of any kind,” he writes. “On the contrary, the writer was an ordinary Egyptian devastated by the brutality inflicted on Khaled Said and motivated to seek justice.”
  • He polled the page’s users and sought ideas from others, like how best to publicize a rally — through printed fliers and mass text messaging, it turned out. (“Reaching working-class Egyptians was not going to happen through the Internet and Facebook,” he notes.) He tried to be as inclusive as possible, as when he changed the name of the page’s biggest scheduled rally from “Celebrating Egyptian Police Day — January 25” to “January 25: Revolution Against Torture, Poverty, Corruption and Unemployment.” “We needed to have everyone join forces: workers, human rights activists, government employees and others who had grown tired of the regime’s policies,” he writes. “If the invitation to take to the streets had been based solely on human rights, then only a certain segment of Egyptian society would have participated.”
  • Ghonim was arrested by the secret police. For nearly two weeks, he was held blindfolded and handcuffed, deprived of sleep and subjected to repeated interrogations, as his friends, family and colleagues at Google tried to discover his whereabouts. That he was released as quickly as he was demonstrated the power of Revolution 2.0.
jamieparkerson

How to stay anonymous online (Wired UK) - 1 views

www.wired.co.uk/...be-anonymous-online

anonymity Tor internet freedom of speech privacy Deep Web The Onion Router censorship surveilance

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  • jamieparkerson on 25 Jun 14
     
    One year after the first revelations of Edward Snowden, cryptography has shifted from an obscure branch of computer science to an almost mainstream notion: It's possible, user privacy groups and a growing industry of crypto-focused companies tell us, to encrypt everything from emails to IMs to a gif of a motorcycle jumping over a plane.
Kathleen Hancock

STW - Ways You Can Help Marine Life - 0 views

www.savethewhales.org/you_can_do.html

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  • Participate in Save the Whales’ Petitions with your classroom, club or church group. Petitions about different issues can be found at our website, www.savethewhales.org under “Take Action.” Each signature from an individual to a government official represents the opinion of hundreds of people.
  • Kathleen Hancock on 01 Jul 14
     
    online petitions
kimah6

Robot Brains: Circuits and Systems for Conscious Machines > 11: Machine consciousness :... - 1 views

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robot brains circuits systems machines online books safari consciousness machine

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    "Robot Brains: Circuits and Systems for Conscious Machines"
anonymous

Whiten (1991): Natural Theories of Mind - 0 views

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#ThoughtVectors technology media augmented reality virtual reality augmentedreality visualculture natural theories mind

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  • anonymous on 11 Jul 14
     
    Inspired by Will Sullivan Diigo Link added to Thoughtvectors on 27 Jun 14 Simulacra and Simulation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/...Simulacra_and_Simulation visualculture augmentedreality See CogSci Bibliography; CogSci Index, and CogWeb for excellent review of developmental psychology research (last updated online 2007)
anonymous

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES GAMES IN LANGUAGE LEARNING: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES Robert... - 0 views

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#ThoughtVectors technology media education augmented reality

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    Robert Godwin-Jones, Virginia Commonwealth University There has been a substantial increase in recent years in the interest in using digital games for language learning. This coincides with the explosive growth in multiplayer online gaming and with the proliferation of mobile games for smart phones. It also reflects the growing recognition among educators of the importance of extramural, informal learning and the interest in finding ways to connect learning to students' real lives....number of practical and pedagogical obstacles in the way of incorporating gaming into instructed language learning... what kind of games to choose or to create; how to find the opportunities for language learning within gameplay; and how to integrate gameplay and its associated activities into the curriculum. APA Citation: Godwin-Jones, R. (2014). Games in language learning: Opportunities and challenges. Language Learning & Technology 18(2), 9-19 Retrieved from http://llt.msu.edu/issues/june2014/emerging.pdf
Kathleen Hancock

IEEE Xplore Full-Text PDF: - 0 views

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internet organization nonprofit donations

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  • Kathleen Hancock on 12 Jul 14
     
    Nonprofit online donors
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