Ryn Shane-Armstrong's Profile

Ryn Shane-Armstrong: independent media-maker, language and technology educator, activist for social and economic justice, mad baller. Originally from the American south (dirty, dirty), currently in grad school in Melbourne, Australia, future unknown. Werd.

Member since May 22, 2008, follows 0 people, 1 public groups, 41 public bookmarks (41 total).

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  • WORLD · MUSIC · NETWORK | NEWS | HANGGAI | Introducing: Hanggai on 2008-12-02
  • Emory University---Mark Bauerlein on 2008-06-07
    • Mark Bauerlein earned his doctorate in English at UCLA in 1988. He has taught at Emory since 1989, with a two-and-a-half year break in 2003-05 to serve as the Director, Office of Research and Analysis, at the National Endowment for the Arts. Apart from his scholarly work, he publishes in popular periodicals such as The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, TLS, and Chronicle of Higher Education.
      • Negrophobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta, 1906 (Encounter Books, 2001)

      • Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997)

      • The Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief (Duke University Press, 1997)

      • Whitman and the American Idiom (Louisiana State University Press, 1991)

      • Civil Rights Chronicle: The African American Struggle for Freedom, with Clayborne Carson, Myrtle Evers-Williams, Todd Steven Burroughs, Ella Forbes, and Jim Haskins (Publications International, Ltd., 2003)

      • A Handbook of Literary Terms, with Dana Gioia and X. J. Kennedy (Longman, 2004)
  • Interview with Mark Bauerlein -- YouthWorker.com on 2008-06-07
    • The information passes too quickly from the screen to the homework papers and isn’t processed through the mind. The speed and ease of the digital resources actually conspires against producing long-term understanding.
    • Kids have access to more information than before but they aren’t on educational Web sites, they are on MySpace.com or espn.com. They go to social networking sites, which causes them to indulge where they are—adolescence—and not move forward.
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  • Amazon.com: The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30): Mark Bauerlein: Books on 2008-06-07
    • The technology that was supposed to make young adults more astute, diversify their tastes, and improve their verbal skills has had the opposite effect. According to recent reports, most young people in the United States do not read literature, visit museums, or vote. They cannot explain basic scientific methods, recount basic American history, name their local political representatives, or locate Iraq or Israel on a map. The Dumbest Generation is a startling examination of the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its consequences for American culture and democracy.
    • Mark Bauerlein is a professor of English at Emory University and has worked as a director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts, where he oversaw studies about culture and American life.
  • Christa Couture :: About on 2008-06-01
    • Christa Couture gives up all her lovely and messy bits through a blend of folk and rock, quirk and charm. A formidable talent, Couture is armed with an attention grabbing mezzo-soprano and a quick-witted, poignant turn-of-phrase.
    • The Wedding Singer & The Undertaker is Couture’s second full-length album, scheduled for release May 20th, 2008. It represents the next chapter in this young songstress’ life and Couture’s writing continues to explore intensely intimate spaces with a frank confidence that avoid cliché and melodrama.
  • Andrew Orlowski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on 2008-06-01
    • Orlowski became a columnist based in San Francisco, U.S. for The Register in 2000.


    • In December 2004, he was invited to assemble a panel on techno-utopianism at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.[5] Orlowski argues that this form of utopianism distracts attention and diverts capital away from solving real infrastructure problems.[6] "Technology can help us," he writes on his FAQ page.[4] "But we venerate the machines we have, which aren't very good, and worse, limit ourselves to seeing the world through this machine metaphor. Technology is useful when it makes something we already like to do easier. Technology can't tell us something we don't know. Technology cannot solve problems that don't exist."

  • Nicholas G. Carr: Biography on 2008-06-01
    • Nicholas Carr writes and speaks on technology, business, and culture.
    • His 2004
      book Does IT Matter?, published by Harvard Business School Press, set
      off a worldwide debate about the role of computers in business. His
      widely acclaimed new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, examines the rise
      of "cloud computing" and its implications for business, media and society.
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  • Literacy Software | University of South Carolina, Assistive Technology Program on 2008-05-26
  • AccessIT | What is assistive technology? on 2008-05-26
    • Assistive technology is technology used by individuals with disabilities in order to perform functions that might otherwise be difficult or impossible. Assistive technology can include mobility devices such as walkers and wheelchairs, as well as hardware, software, and peripherals that assist people with disabilities in accessing computers or other information technologies.
    • A tremendous variety of assistive technology is available today, providing the opportunity for nearly all people to access information technology (IT). However, an individual's having proper assistive technology is no guarantee of having access. IT accessibility is dependent on accessible design. IT products must be designed and created in ways that allow all users to access them, including those who use assistive technologies.
  • GreenvilleOnline.com | Plight of Migrant Workers Blemishes Dubai's Image on 2008-05-25

    • Dubai's astonishing building boom, which has made it one of the world's fastest growing cities, has been fueled by the labor of about 700,000 immigrants - almost all from poor villages in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

    • Human rights groups have for years decried the harsh conditions of foreign laborers in Dubai and the rest of the United Arab Emirates and oil-rich Persian Gulf. But the problem only drew widespread attention after strikes by thousands of workers this year and last. Some recent protests turned violent; in mid-March, police arrested at least 500 South Asian workers who smashed office windows and set cars ablaze in the small, neighboring emirate of Sharjah.
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