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Audrey B

Social Networks Spread Defiance Online - 1 views

www.markmfredrickson.com/...nytimes-iran-twitter.pdf

Social-Networking

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  • Audrey B on 21 May 10
     
    As the embattled government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears to be trying to limit Internet access and communications in Iran, new kinds of social media are challenging those traditional levers of state media control and allowing Iranians to find novel ways around the restrictions.
  • Chris Anderson on 21 May 10
     
    Interestingly, Pakistan is having these same issues right now: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10130195.stm What I think is interesting is the clashing conceptions of what free speech constitutes and how these social media is forcing those who are used to a more totalitarian view to think about the overarching issue
Krista S

The 4 C's of Catalytic Connections - 0 views

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social media advice

shared by Krista S on 21 May 10 - Cached
  • Krista S on 21 May 10
     
    Don't just talk about yourself, talk about the world and show that you're listening.
becca_hay

Sexual Identity Online - M/Cyclopedia of New Media - 1 views

wiki.media-culture.org.au/...Sexual_Identity_Online

shared by becca_hay on 19 May 10 - Cached
  • Specifically, the opportunity for exaggerated, unreal portrayals of self lead many to question the validity of substantial, and truthful online interaction. As Jordan (1999: 88) argues, “…identity fluidity supports the masquerades and experiments of avatars…the ability to change gender, the ability to contact experts…â€?. In the physical world, such social experiments as playing with the alternation of gender or creating a completely different social background for the purpose of research, become far more complex and are less likely to occur. Alternatively, the Internet offers its users the potential to explore identity more easily and often most importantly, the ability to do so, anonymously.
    • becca_hay
      becca_hay on 19 May 10
       
      This digital masking can be compared with the actual costuming of actors in the transvestite theater. This is a test run using diigo
Ben M

BBC NEWS | Technology | Berners-Lee on the read/write web - 1 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...4132752.stm

web2.0 Berners-Lee communication

shared by Ben M on 19 May 10 - Cached
  • Well in some ways. The idea was that anybody who used the web would have a space where they could write and so the first browser was an editor, it was a writer as well as a reader. Every person who used the web had the ability to write something. It was very easy to make a new web page and comment on what somebody else had written, which is very much what blogging is about.
  • For years I had been trying to address the fact that the web for most people wasn't a creative space; there were other editors, but editing web pages became difficult and complicated for people. What happened with blogs and with wikis, these editable web spaces, was that they became much more simple. When you write a blog, you don't write complicated hypertext, you just write text, so I'm very, very happy to see that now it's gone in the direction of becoming more of a creative medium.
  • I feel that we need to individually work on putting good things on it, finding ways to protect ourselves from accidentally finding the bad stuff, and that at the end of the day, a lot of the problems of bad information out there, things that you don't like, are problems with humanity.
    • Heather D
      Heather D on 19 May 10
       
      This reminds me of how I think the Church uses these tools. Yes, the internet can be used for not-so-good things...but ultimately, it can be used and is meant to be used to expand the Church's work.
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  • My hope is that it'll be very positive in bringing people together around the planet, because it'll make communication between different countries more possible.
    • Ben M
      Ben M on 26 May 10
       
      Reminds me of Robert and his ham radio friends all over the world
  • building of something very new and special,
    • Ben M
      Ben M on 26 May 10
       
      a cathedral!
  • Gideon Burton on 19 May 10
     
    The man who launched the very first website talks about the way blogs and wikis have realized his initial vision of the web as a space for participatory creativity (and writing in particular)
Weiye Loh

Asymptote: Literary Encounters Between Languages and Cultures  | the kent rid... - 0 views

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Language Translation

shared by Weiye Loh on 20 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Asymptote is a new, international literary journal dedicated to the translation of literary works, both from various languages to English as well as from English to other languages. It was founded by our very own Singaporean writer, Lee Yew Leong, whose editorial team spans various continents and cultures – South Asia, the Middle East, Europe, America and East Asia – and is a veritable international, multi-cultural and multilingual task force.
  • A ‘classic’ metaphor comes from the Italian – “traduttore, traditore”, which means “translator, traitor”. My teacher had written this phrase on the board in my first translation class, demonstrating her (rather cynical) philosophical stance on the whole project of translation – something is always ‘lost in translation’, and the translator necessarily interferes in this gap of meaning guided her own bias, conscious or unconscious, political or philosophical.
  • In philosophy classes my charismatic and wildly esoteric professor once railed on about the possibility (or impossibility) of commensuration between various little narratives ( petits récits ), given the rejection of ‘modernist’ grand or meta-narratives. But translation, he declared dramatically, the possibility of translation hints at the possibility of commensurability between the little narratives. In his view, little narratives were understood as discrete cultures (Japanese, Iranian, Russian) and inter-cultural communication (and consequent kindness and friendliness amongst humankind) is only possible if translation is possible.
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  • The Asymptote raison d’être is much more optimistic than my translation teacher’s stance, and much less abstruse than that of my philosophy professor’s. The editors write, “We are interested in encounters between languages and the consequences of these encounters. Though a translation may never fully replicate the original in effect (thus our name, “asymptote”: the dotted line on a graph that a mathematical function may tend towards but never reach), it is in itself an act of creation. … The value of translation is that it unleashes from latency ideas and emotions to a vast sea of others who do not have access to the language in which these ideas and emotions reside.”
  • With the asymptote, the y-axis and the x-axis will never get lonely, pairing off into the infinite distance and the distant infinity; the original text and its companion translations proliferate in the blinker-free world wide net, reaching a broader readership and our earthly community grows closer with a shared cache of stories, tales, imaginations.
  • In addition, “[n]ot only will [Asymptote] display work in its original language after the English translation, [but they] also encourage translators (especially of poems) to provide audio recordings of the original work so that the reader has access as well to the sounds of that language, via a “Press PLAY” audio option whenever such an MP3 recording is available.” This project straddles cultures, languages as well as media – writing, audio and even visual
  • Weiye Loh on 20 Feb 11
     
    Koh Choon Hwee
Rachael Schiel

Creating Passionate Users: Hire Different - 0 views

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wisdom of crowds

shared by Rachael Schiel on 09 May 11 - Cached
  • But he contends that it's not necessarily the lack of demographic diversity that's at the heart of the problems... it's cognitive diversity you need. If those doing the hiring are going after only world-class, exceptionally bright people with similar skills, the differences between the Chosen Ones may not be that useful. He claims the company needs to hire not just only the smartest people!
  • Rachael Schiel on 09 May 11
     
    blog with ref to wisdom of crowds
Rachael Schiel

World to end on Saturday, say New York preachers - Yahoo! News - 1 views

news.yahoo.com/...usreligionworldend

completely irrelevant but funny

shared by Rachael Schiel on 19 May 11 - No Cached
  • "You've committed your life to Jesus. You know you're saved. But when the Rapture comes, what's to become of your loving pets who are left behind?" Eternal Earth-Bound Pets says on its website, offering to "take that burden off your mind." The post-doomsday pet rescue service already has 259 clients, who have paid $135 for the first pet and $20 for each additional pet at the same address, to ensure the faithful animal companions are looked after and loved even when their Christian owners have gone to the other side.
  • Rachael Schiel on 19 May 11
     
    If you are pretty sure you will be caught up into the rapture on Saturday, your pets can still be taken care of if you pay $135 to Eternal Earth-Bound Pets
Bri Zabriskie

We Are Visible - SIGN UP SPEAK OUT BE SEEN - helping you connect to the social world - 0 views

wearevisible.com/why-social-media.html

social media web2.0 homelessness

shared by Bri Zabriskie on 06 May 11 - No Cached
  • Bri Zabriskie on 06 May 11
     
    more about our discussion about the anonymity of presence online: This site is a diving board for people who are homeless to begin using social media. It advocates the use of social media to give these people a voice in a community that is more apt to ignore them. People don't often listen to people who "look" homeless, but because with social media they can blog/tweet/status update from their hearts and be judged only on the basis of what they say without being preempted by something else, people listen.
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