a large, excellently curated photography site, including slide shows and discussions of key issues in photography and representation in general; highly recommended; under tutelage of Pedro Meyer; take "tour" first
look at ordinarily unseen places: technical galleries, attics, construction places, roofs, all those "No Entry" places that form a sort of parallel deserted town
Oral lore is tradition and culture passed down through storytelling from one generation to another. Yellow ribbons as symbols of absent loved ones have been present in oral tradition since the Civil War...
large site, attractive new design as of 11/06. essays, links, delving into popular culture and playing with it, theoretical explorations and savvy; highly recommended
large site, attractive new design as of 11/06. essays, links, delving into popular culture and playing with it, theoretical explorations and savvy; highly recommended
"exploration of digital character art — any art involving electrons and making use of letters, alphanumerics, or other characters in an interesting way"
EX: Turning off Depression: Profile of a Neurologist; A Revealing Reflection: Mirror Neurons Talk, Walk, and Culture; Trial and Error: How Scientific-Journal Peer Review Allows Fraud, Error, and a Bit of Hubris...
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The official journal of World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (yet another organization that should be disabused of hiring web designers that do UI with Flash)
I’m a Wikimedian, based in Sydney. I am a project officer for ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCi) working on helping Australian cultural organisations use Creative Commons. I’m also the 2012 Director’s Fellow at the National Museum of Australia. My username everywhere is “Wittylama” - an anagram. I speak French and Swedish, have a bachelors in Globalisation Studies and one highly prized university medal. Currently studying for a Masters in IP law from QUT/WIPO.
from Hauser, Robert M. 2002. "Meritocracy, cognitive ability, and the sources of occupational success." CDE Working Paper 98-07 (rev). Center for Demography and Ecology, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
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CLAWS: Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery. Since I am retired and a webmistress for a media site, ejumpcut.org, I love the idea of this site for personal reasons. But most people do have to work, so this maintains an utopian sensibility for al
"What is Web2.0 and why does it matter? The answer is glocalization. When the web started, the hype was that geography would no longer matter. Glocalized structures and networks are the backbone of Web2.0. Web2.0 is about glocalization, it is about making global information available to local social contexts and giving people the flexibility to find, organize, share and create information in a locally meaningful fashion that is globally accessible." Die Autorin setzt sich kritisch mit den Konsequenzen, die das das Web 2.0 auf eine sozio-kulturelle Entwicklung hat.
[Web] surfing mimics a postmodern, deconstructionist perspective by undermining the authority of texts...no longer awed by received authority...in the form of text, graphics, music or code...[web surfers will use them] for their own purposes.
This story is also the story of the decline and fall of the British university and the corruption of the academic ideal . That is why this essay carries two titles - a personal one and a social one.
ull time to working on their paintings. Some are world travelers who left their well-paying gigs months ago to cruise around Vietnam on a motorcycle before returning to start an import-export business in rare hookahs. And we look at them and go, What is w
Of all the things companies worry about when selling food products, catching "cooties" is probably not high on the list. But new research suggests it should be. Products such as lard and feminine napkins evoke feelings of disgust that can reduce the ap
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T. Silva, P. de Melo, J. Almeida, M. Musolesi, und A. Loureiro. (2014)cite arxiv:1404.1009Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, 1 table. Proceedings of 8th AAAI Intl. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2014).
B. Bachmair. Medienerziehung im Kindergarten. Neue Herausforderungen durch private Programme?, 3, Landesanstalt für Rundfunk Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, (1990)