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Derrick Clements

You Should Spend 4-6 Hours Writing a Blog Post - 1 views

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Digital blog post writing hours

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  • Derrick Clements on 18 Jul 11
     
    Interesting take from an awesome blogger.  He talks about how really time-consuming posts have brought him lots of visitors.
Weiye Loh

Why I Am Teaching a Course Called "Wasting Time on the Internet" - The New Yorker - 0 views

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Reading Writing Internet Academia Plagiarism

shared by Weiye Loh on 22 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • The vast amount of the Web’s language is perfect raw material for literature. Disjunctive, compressed, decontextualized, and, most important, cut-and-pastable, it’s easily reassembled into works of art.
  • What they’ve been surreptitiously doing throughout their academic career—patchwriting, cutting-and-pasting, lifting—must now be done in the open, where they are accountable for their decisions. Suddenly, new questions arise: What is it that I’m lifting? And why? What do my choices about what to appropriate tell me about myself? My emotions? My history? My biases and passions? The critiques turn toward formal improvement: Could I have swiped better material? Could my methods in constructing these texts have been better? Not surprisingly, they thrive. What I’ve learned from these years in the classroom is that no matter what we do, we can’t help but express ourselves.
  • Weiye Loh on 22 Nov 14
     
    "Web surfing as a form of self-expression. Every click is indicative of who we are: indicative of our likes, our dislikes, our emotions, our politics, our world view. Of course, marketers have long recognized this, but literature hasn't yet learned to treasure-and exploit-this situation. The idea for this class arose from my frustration with reading endless indictments of the Web for making us dumber. I've been feeling just the opposite. We're reading and writing more than we have in a generation, but we are reading and writing differently-skimming, parsing, grazing, bookmarking, forwarding, retweeting, reblogging, and spamming language-in ways that aren't yet recognized as literary."
Krista S

The Rumors Are True: We Spend More And More Time Online - 0 views

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shared by Krista S on 16 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Survey results published by Harris Interactive suggest that adult Internet users are now spending an average of 13 hours a week online. About 14% spends 24 or more hours a week online, while 20% of adult Internet users are online for only two hours or less a week.
Krista S

Average Net user now online 13 hours per week | Digital Media - CNET News - 0 views

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shared by Krista S on 16 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Those who surf the Net spend an average of 13 hours per week online, but that figure varies widely. Twenty percent are online for two hours or less a week, while 14 percent are there for 24 hours or more.
  • The age group that spent the most time online per week: 30- to 39-year-olds, at 18 hours.
Amanda Giles

Keeping True Identity Online Becomes Battle - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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identity parasocial relationships social networking

shared by Amanda Giles on 28 May 10 - Cached
  • But in this more narcissistic Internet era, people who were once happily anonymous view themselves as online minicelebrities with their own brands to promote.
  • vanity addresses
  • accounts on sites like Twitter and Facebook tend to show up at the top of the list when people search the Web
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  • his is a new world that we are having to step into in order to protect our brand, and they did not give us a huge window of time to prepare for it
Aly Rutter

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds - 4 views

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Remix cloud wordle

shared by Aly Rutter on 28 May 10 - Cached
  • Ben M on 28 May 10
     
    how many times does a word come up?
  • Aly Rutter on 13 May 11
     
    Making word clouds that the Cathedral Remix used
Krista S

Project Massive : The Social and Psychological Impact of Online Gaming - 0 views

74.125.155.132/scholar

online escapism motivations

shared by Krista S on 02 Jun 10 - No Cached
  • Further, the re- sults indicate that participation in online gaming can lead to decreased isolation and en- hanced social integration for those players who use online gaming as a medium in which to spend time and interact with real life friends and relatives.
  • It is assumed that 10% of online game players are addicted to the activ- ity, an extrapolation from the ABCNEWS.com survey finding that 10% of all users of the internet are addicted to it
  • The average adult spends 4 hours per day (or 28 hours weekly) watching television (A.C. Neilsen, 2001). Average weekly video game play is estimated at 7.6 hours (ESA, 2004). It is reported that people who play massively multi- player online games do so for an average of 15 hours per week; however, weekly usage of 30 hours or more is not uncommon
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  • Killers are characterized by what Bartle refers to as a desire to impose themselves on the play experience of others. Most often this is done by killing other players for the joy of
  • “knowing that a real person, somewhere, is very upset by what you've just done, yet can themselves do nothing about it.” Killers are commonly referred to as “griefers” and their actions as “grief play” given their orientation toward annoying and aggravating others.
Amanda Giles

I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You - Clive Thompson - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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identity reality social networking parasocial relationships ambient awareness

shared by Amanda Giles on 28 May 10 - Cached
  • Facebook and Twitter may have pushed things into overdrive, but the idea of using communication tools as a form of “co-presence” has been around for a while. The Japanese sociologist Mizuko Ito first noticed it with mobile phones: lovers who were working in different cities would send text messages back and forth all night — tiny updates like “enjoying a glass of wine now” or “watching TV while lying on the couch.” They were doing it partly because talking for hours on mobile phones isn’t very comfortable (or affordable). But they also discovered that the little Ping-Ponging messages felt even more intimate than a phone call.
  • capable
  • A lot of this is just social norms catching up with what technology is capable of.”
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  • ambient awareness
  • very much like being physically near someone
  • paradox of ambient awareness
  • insignificant on its own
  • he little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives
  • Facebook and Twitter may have pushed things into overdrive, but the idea of using communication tools as a form of “co-presence” has been around for a while. The Japanese sociologist Mizuko Ito first noticed it with mobile phones: lovers who were working in different cities would send text messages back and forth all night — tiny updates like “enjoying a glass of wine now” or “watching TV while lying on the couch.” They were doing it partly because talking for hours on mobile phones isn’t very comfortable (or affordable). But they also discovered that the little Ping-Ponging messages felt even more intimate than a phone call.
  • the growing popularity of online awareness as a reaction to social isolation
  • human groupings naturally tail off at around 150 people: the “Dunbar number,” as it is known. Are people who use Facebook and Twitter increasing their Dunbar number, because they can so easily keep track of so many more people?
  • Constant online contact had made those ties immeasurably richer, but it hadn’t actually increased the number of them; deep relationships are still predicated on face time, and there are only so many hours in the day for that.
  • If you’re reading daily updates from hundreds of people about whom they’re dating and whether they’re happy, it might, some critics worry, spread your emotional energy too thin, leaving less for true intimate relationships.
  • Parasocial relationships can use up some of the emotional space in our Dunbar number, crowding out real-life people.
  • hey can observe you, but it’s not the same as knowing you.”
  • people in their 20s who were in college when Facebook appeared and have never lived as adults without online awareness. For them, participation isn’t optional. If you don’t dive in, other people will define who you are.
  • if only to ensure the virtual version of you is accurate, or at least the one you want to present to the world.
  • he dynamics of small-town life,
  • If anything, it’s identity-constraining now
  • result of all this incessant updating: a culture of people who know much more about themselves
  • t’s like the Greek dictum to “know thyself,” or the therapeutic concept of mindfulness.
Neal C

Every Hug, Every Fuss - Scientists Record Families' Daily Lives - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...23family.html

data collection archiving gender roles families

shared by Neal C on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • Mothers still do most of the housework, spending 27 percent of their time on it, on average, compared with 18 percent for fathers and 3 percent for children (giving an allowance made no difference).
    • Neal C
      Neal C on 24 May 10
       
      ungrateful kids
  • the U.C.L.A. project was an effort to capture a relatively new sociological species: the dual-earner, multiple-child, middle-class American household. The investigators have just finished working through the 1,540 hours of videotape, coding and categorizing every hug, every tantrum, every soul-draining search for a missing soccer cleat.
  • One researcher roamed the house with a handheld computer, noting each family member’s location and activities at 10-minute intervals.
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  • puter, noting each family mem
  • Neal C on 24 May 10
     
    This is an interesting article about the way new methods of documentation and archiving allow researchers to collect and code more data than ever before - a "reality TV" paradigm.
Gideon Burton

Academic Evolution: Scholarly Communications will Transform via Cybermetrics - 3 views

www.academicevolution.com/...ications-must-transform-6.html

shared by Gideon Burton on 26 May 10 - Cached
    • Gideon Burton
      Gideon Burton on 26 May 10
       
      Note the features of this online writing: -situates itself relative to ongoing discussion (via explicit reference and links) -contains an explicit thesis statement early in the post -includes headings to make subsections easier to navigate and the longer post easier to read -includes appropriate images to draw interest, break up the text, and illustrate the argument -includes mild use of formatting options for emphasis (highlighting in this case) -includes hyperlinks to references -quotes and cites both traditional and online sources (uses the blockquote formatting for a longer quote) -links not only to sources for quotations, but to relevant entities or organizations, or to discussions of the issue (maybe less scholarly, but timely and relevant) -rhetorically, it lays out a story about the past, situates a phenomenon in the present, and discusses the impact for the future of these ideas within our more mediated digital environment -includes relevant tags -has received comments from others (due in part to the author "pinging" or announcing that he'd published a post on his blog via Twitter or other social media
Ben M

The Nameless Mormon Blogosphere | Times & Seasons - 1 views

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bloggernacle mormon

shared by Ben M on 26 May 10 - Cached
  • Latter Day Blogs is pretty good, but the strength of St. Blog’s is that it suggests a place in which this online community exists.
  • They used to refer to on-line LDS posters as members of the virtual ward.
  • Some object on the grounds that a choir is a better analogy than a space. Note that the founding metaphor of the blog community is spacial–the blogosphere. Note also that a choir is rather more directed and harmonious than we expect to be, that admission to it is controlled by the choir whereas admission to the sacred precincts of a tabernacle is at least in conception controlled by God. While singing ought to be an act of praise, we tend to think of it as entertainment, whereas we are always aware of our presence before God in a tabernacle. Getting down to specifics, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a somewhat unhip public relations gesture. It serves to present an friendly face to an antipathetic world, and is thus at root defensive. The tabernacle, on the other hand, is the sacred space that conceptually contains the world; it is at root expansive.
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  • I thought about that, Jim. Here’s my response: first, if we were calling ourselves the Tabernacle I think I’d object. Bloggernacle tones down the sacred meaning enough, I think, while still keeping some of those overtones of acting before the eyes of God. Also, in Mormonism, the Tabernacle isn’t exactly a temple. It’s a holy building and holy space, true, but one in which musical concerts and Journal of Discourse talks on farming methods can still be appropriate. It’s almost the Mormon Public Square.
  • Ben M on 26 May 10
     
    This is the blog post where the "bloggernacle" got its name back in 2004
Ben M

The New York Times > National > Religion Journal: Faithful Track Questions, Answers and... - 2 views

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shared by Ben M on 26 May 10 - Cached
  • 10 percent to 20 percent of those are related to religion.
    • Ben M
      Ben M on 26 May 10
       
      blogs
  • Many blogs, particularly those by the most fervently religious, are anonymous.
  • She guards her anonymity because it lets her write things that some in her community might perceive as less than flattering, which could potentially compromise her daughters' ability to marry well, she said, though they are now respectively an infant and a toddler.
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  • "it generated a new sense of community that I didn't otherwise have" he said. "In newspapers you don't have the same interconnection with readers."
Sarah Eeee

Dissent Magazine - Arguing The World - Are English Departments Killing the Humanities? - - 0 views

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shared by Sarah Eeee on 10 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • The focus of this post is not the thousand-and-one times told tale of how the corporatization of the university and state divestment from higher education has had a particularly disastrous impact upon humanities departments
  • We can treat these realities as facts to be taken for granted.
  • We might wonder if there are conditions of intellectual deprivation for which the institutional structures governing the humanities are partly to blame.
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  • For Arnoldians, literature would play the cultural role once occupied by religion, with beauty civilizing the modern individual.
  • The avatar of that attitude was Harvard’s Douglas Bush, who speaking in 1944 identified the cultural tradition running from the ancient Greeks through Milton as “that heritage for which the war has been fought.”
  • To put it another way, the English department currently labors under a deep paradox: it devotes much of its intellectual energy to declaring the limits of Anglo-American culture while being structurally wedded to that culture in a way that necessarily privileges it.
  • At the risk of being impolite, I will be pointed about their implications: this is not a progressive program of higher education, but is in fact a perniciously anti-progressive one. It confirms the casual undergraduate presupposition that nothing occurring before 1980 is of real significance, that the free market is the culmination of the human desire for liberty, and that digital fora for blather are now fundamental to meditations on our role in the universe.
  • In its youth it promised an education in literature without the hard work of learning languages, much to the dismay of classicists. In its middle age it offered a stripped-down version of philosophy under the banner of critical theory, an intrusion that philosophers bore with Stoic calm. Now in its senescence, the English department is being beaten by communications at its own game of watering down curriculum and reducing humanist traditions to what today’s adolescent will find—to use the favorite malapropism of the text-messaging generation—“relatable.”
  • In an age more forthright in its bigotries, Irving Babbitt advocated a New Humanism that readily embraced a meritocracy of learning. The humanitarian, in Babbitt’s phrase, “has sympathy for mankind in the lump,” where a humanist “is interested in the perfecting of the individual.” The return to the classics, or to great texts traditionally conceived, never seems in my mind fully to dispense with such patrician sensibilities.
  • The humanities programs of the next century might rather be structured around “world humanisms.” In such programs the phrase “great texts” would evoke the Bhagavad Gita every bit as much as it does The Iliad. The learning of at least one world language would be required, be it Arabic, French, or Mandarin. At its center would be neither the vernacular nor an artificially constructed “Western tradition.”
  • Instead it would explore on their own terms, and in their rich cross-fertilization, millenia of world traditions offering insight on the relationships between individual and society; on our ethical obligations to our fellow beings, human and non-human; and on flourishing and justice.
  • An example of a “world humanisms” approach is suggested by a conference that I recently attended in Istanbul, which brought together philosophers and theologians from North America and Turkey. One of the many rich portraits that emerged was of first-century Alexandria, where the Neoplatonism of the Jewish philosopher Philo directly influenced the early Christians Clement and Origen, as well as laying the foundations of Islamic philosophy through al-Kindi and al-Farabi. We are blinded to the study of this kind of influence by a focus on “Western Civilization” that favors Athens and Rome to Alexandria and treats Origen only as a precursor to Saint Augustine, that supposed inventor of an exclusively Christian syncretism between philosophy and theology.
  • Our task as humanists of the twenty-first century is to make those long and deep traditions visible, and to do so in the teeth of those forces that would strip them away, be those forces technological, commercial, political, or intellectual.
  • Sarah Eeee on 10 Jan 11
     
    An alternate take on the "future of the humanities" argument. This author proposes a revamped sort of literature study incorporating modern languages and a fervently international approach to literature, thought, and culture.
  • Sarah Eeee on 10 Jan 11
     
    This one skirts the edges of the digital humanities, by proposing a vision of future literature study. Explicitly digital projects could be useful for finding the international connections this author calls for.
Carlie Wallentine

Mormon Literature and Criticism - 1 views

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criticism LDS Literary interpretation

shared by Carlie Wallentine on 27 May 11 - No Cached
  • Carlie Wallentine on 27 May 11
     
    I mostly liked the 8th paragraph about how critics looking at any literature from an LDS perspective need to leave physical evidence of their work, so future LDS critics can build upon it and stop re-inventing the wheel.
Ashley Nelson

YouTube - John Huston's The Dead - Finale - 1 views

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james dubliners literature youtube

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  • Ashley Nelson on 11 May 11
     
    A little video from the very last scene of The Dead.
  • Ashley Nelson on 11 May 11
     
    I am not sure if anyone has read The Dead. I have several times and I had no idea that there was a video until Dr Burton mentioned it to me. I found this on youtube and couldn't help but marvel how different this last scene was watching it instead of reading it.
Andrea Ostler

Why eBooks Matter - 1 views

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digital literature

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  • Andrea Ostler on 12 May 11
     
    An interesting blog I found that talks about the changing times and the importance of technology in learning
Ashley Nelson

Blogger! - 0 views

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literature blog

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  • Ashley Nelson on 16 May 11
     
    So I was searching for some blogs about James Joyce and I came across this man's blog, Mel. Talk about being a prolific reader and writer. He reads short stories all the time and posts about each one. I think it is interesting that he started his blog not really think many would read it and now he has almost 500 followers.
Andrea Ostler

Passengers fed up with inconsiderate cell phone user - 0 views

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cell phones technology use consideration

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  • Andrea Ostler on 19 May 11
     
    People are saying "it's about time" that something is finally being done about people who are loud and inconsiderate about technology use. I think people have finally seen how manners with cell phones, etc have spiraled out of control the past ten years.
Weiye Loh

Our Greatest Political Novelist? : The New Yorker - 0 views

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Science Fiction Politics Identity Society

shared by Weiye Loh on 24 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Science fiction is an inherently political genre, in that any future or alternate history it imagines is a wish about How Things Should Be (even if it’s reflected darkly in a warning about how they might turn out). And How Things Should Be is the central question and struggle of politics. It is also, I’d argue, an inherently liberal genre (its many conservative practitioners notwithstanding), in that it sees the status quo as contingent, a historical accident, whereas conservatism holds it to be inevitable, natural, and therefore just. The meta-premise of all science fiction is that nothing can be taken for granted. That it’s still anybody’s ballgame.
  • Robinson argues that, now that climate change has become a matter of life and death for the species, it’s time for scientists to abandon their scrupulous neutrality and enter into the messy arena of politics. Essentially, Robinson attempts to apply scientific thinking to politics, approaching it less like pure physics, in which one infallible equation / ideology explains and answers everything, than like engineering—a process of what F.D.R. once called “bold, persistent experimentation,” finding out what works and combining successful elements to synthesize something new.
  • Weiye Loh on 24 Dec 13
     
    "When we call literary writers "political" today, we're usually talking about identity politics. If historians or critics fifty years from now were to read most of our contemporary literary fiction, they might well infer that our main societal problems were issues with our parents, bad relationships, and death. If they were looking for any indication that we were even dimly aware of the burgeoning global conflict between democracy and capitalism, or of the abyssal catastrophe our civilization was just beginning to spill over the brink of, they might need to turn to books that have that embarrassing little Saturn-and-spaceship sticker on the spine. That is, to science fiction.2"
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