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Audrey B

12June.org - 0 views

12june.org

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  • Audrey B on 04 Jun 10
     
    Global day of supportuing Iran....This website is dedicated to supporting civil and human rights in Iran
Audrey B

Postprotest resistance - 0 views

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    Postprotest hackers
Katherine H

The Englewood Review of Books: Featured: The Sublime by Simon Morley - 0 views

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    "the full effect of the terror Burke stresses in the sublime hadn't taken shape for me until recently, watching over and over the first 30-second video clip of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak. This is a frightful image in its murky greenness. And the scope of what this simple video loop suggests is nearly beyond the capacity to describe. It certainly follows several of Burke's qualifications of the sublime - the terror of the scope, the obscurity and privation of the bottom of the ocean, the suggestion of infinity - but it also raises even more questions in regard to what a particularly contemporary sublime might encompass. "
  • Katherine H on 03 Jun 10
     
    This post is reviewing a book, but includes a personal anecdote about finding the 'terror' aspect of the sublime in an internet video.
Krista S

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

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online escapism motivations

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  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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
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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.
Krista S

Motivations for Play in Online Games - 0 views

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online escapism gender motivations

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    While these results seem to confirm stereotypical assumptions of gendered play styles, the variation in the achievement component is in fact better explained by age than gender. Also worth noting is that there is a gender difference in the relationship subcomponent but not in the socializing subcomponent, although these two subcomponents are highly related. In other words, male players socialize just as much as female players, but are looking for very different things in those relationships.
jardinejn

The Impact of Community Computer Networks on Social Capital and Community Involvement - 0 views

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social capital networks

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  • Putnam defined social capital as the "features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks, that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions
  • , civic engagement is a function of communication among members via their social networks, and as civic engagement increases, so does quality of life in the community. Thus, communities with vibrant communication networks are likely to have a preferable quality of life.
  • . Dimmick, Patterson, and Sikand (1996) argued for the role of the traditional telephone in developing and maintaining strong interpersonal communication patterns in the local community.
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  • examination of the role of interactive media in building social capital.
  • Several scholars viewed the computer network of the Internet as especially well suited to communication activities that lead to community building, virtual or otherwise (Jones, 1994; Rheingold, 2000; Wellman, 1997).
  • jardinejn on 02 Jun 10
     
    How networking can influence social causes
  • jardinejn on 02 Jun 10
     
    This study found how group efficacy improves with networking.
Krista S

The demographics, motivations, and derived experiences of users of massively multi-user... - 0 views

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online escapism gender identity

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    Male players were significantly more likely to be driven by the Achievement and Manipulation factors, while female players were significantly more likely to be driven by the Relationship factor. Also, the data indicated that users derived meaningful relationships and salient emotional experiences, as well as real-life leadership skills from these virtual environments. MMORPGs are not simply a pastime for teenagers, but a valuable research venue and platform where millions of users interact and collaborate using real-time 3D avatars on a daily basis.
Neal C

Virtual voyages: cinema and travel - Google Books - 0 views

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travel film scenic voyage landscape

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  • Neal C on 01 Jun 10
     
    Tom Gunning and others on travel films
jardinejn

An Introduction to Internet Governance by Jovan Kurbulija - 0 views

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internet history socio-cultural aspects of the internet digital divide online intellectual property

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    Goes over the development of the internet and laws and issues to do with consumer safety online
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    It's a 196 page book and covers a lot. I recommend looking through the table of contents to see if it relates to your project.
Neal C

JSTOR: Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 38, No. 3 (Aug., 2004), pp. 317-333 - 0 views

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  • Neal C on 01 Jun 10
     
    Using Koyaanisqatsi as a way of familiarizing students with hypertext
Neal C

EBSCOhost: The Terrain of the Long Take - 0 views

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  • Neal C on 01 Jun 10
     
    talks about landscapes and Barthes
Neal C

EBSCOhost: Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape - 0 views

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    Changing American landscape....analogy to hollywood films?
Neal C

http://sfx.lib.byu.edu.erl.lib.byu.edu/sfxlcl3?genre=article;isbn=;issn=10510230;title=... - 0 views

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    The Life and Death of the contemplative ladnscape
Neal C

JSTOR: The Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring, ... - 0 views

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      2nd poaragraph
Audrey B

JSTOR: Modern Language Notes, Vol. 75, No. 4 (Apr., 1960), pp. 297-304 - 0 views

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Thoreau Action Walden Civil Disobedience

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    Comparing Thoreau's gestures and actions around the times of Walden and "Civil Disobedience"
Chris Anderson

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twitter search

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    use this for researching topics on twitter
Allison Frost

Censorship causing brain drain in China? | Chicago Press Release Services - 0 views

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china education censorship

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  • Students are leaving mainland China for the opportunity to study in Hong Kong instead.
  • “We are a small elite who can afford freedom beyond China’s great firewall,” says “Li Cheng” from Shanghai.
  • Li, a student at the University of Hong Kong, did not want to disclose his real name or details about his study program, fearing consequences back home. “I live in one country, but it feels like having two identities,” Li said. “In Shanghai, I use special software to access sites blacklisted by the government, like Twitter or the uncensored version of Google.
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  • “In Hong Kong, I am taught to integrate these tools in my research.”
  • Hong Kong is nothing like mainland China in terms of its free flow of information, freedom of speech and multiparty political system.
  • The exodus of students such as Li could signify a brain drain for mainland China, according to Bandurski. “Without political reform, economic growth in China will decline,” he said. “Talents will leave China. Students and teachers who want to have more access to information are not dissidents anymore. They are becoming the mainstream.”
  • With new freedom at hand, only a few fresh HKU graduates have returned to the mainland. Last year, only 3 percent of HKU graduates from mainland China returned home to look for a job. That matches the trend of Chinese students studying overseas. More than 70 percent of the more than 1 million Chinese students abroad did not return home after graduation between 1978 and 2006, according to a report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
  • Allison Frost on 07 Jun 10
     
    many students leaving beijing to study in hong kong. access to google and other sources of information, emphasis on information to further education, preference
Weiye Loh

Lingua Franca | Is Bad Writing Necessary? - 0 views

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Writings Postmodernism Critical Theory

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    IS BAD WRITING NECESSARY? George Orwell, Theodor Adorno, and the Politics of Literature BY JAMES MILLER
Weiye Loh

- Clarity Is King -- Eric Adler on Postmodernists' Limpid Bursts - New Partis... - 0 views

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Postmodernism Writings

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    Clarity Is King -- Eric Adler on Postmodernists' Limpid Bursts 05.7.2004
Weiye Loh

A `Bad Writer' Bites Back - 0 views

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Academic Writing Postmodernism

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  • The journal, Philosophy and Literature, has offered itself as the arbiter of good prose and accused some of us of bad writing by awarding us "prizes."
  • The targets, however, have been restricted to scholars on the left whose work focuses on topics like sexuality, race, nationalism and the workings of capitalism -- a point the news media ignored. Still, the whole exercise hints at a serious question about the relation of language and politics: why are some of the most trenchant social criticisms often expressed through difficult and demanding language?
  • scholars in the humanities should be able to clarify how their work informs and illuminates everyday life. Equally, however, such scholars are obliged to question common sense, interrogate its tacit presumptions and provoke new ways of looking at a familiar world.
  • Weiye Loh on 24 Oct 10
     
    A `Bad Writer' Bites Back By JUDITH BUTLER
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