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Her behaviour had nothing to do with getting the word out; it wasn’t about preventing harm to others, but rather a simple case of – as I said two weeks ago – “look at me looking at this.”
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- What’s most alarming about Moore’s behaviour is that she probably thought she was doing the right thing. Certainly, looking at her MySpace page and her Twitter account (before the army finally forced her to lock it down) we see the portrait of a patriot. Someone who clearly cares a great deal about others, and who – despite the rhetorical question “remind me why I joined the army again” on her profile – is proud to serve her country. In tweeting from the scene, and calling out the media for not reporting the rumours from inside the base, I’m sure she genuinely believed she was helping get the real truth out, and making an actual difference.
  
  And that’s precisely the problem: none of us think we’re being selfish or egotistic when we tweet something, or post a video on YouTube or check-in using someone’s address on Foursquare. It’s just what we do now, no matter whether we’re heading out for dinner or witnessing a massacre on an Army base. Like Lord of the Flies, or the Stanford Prison Experiment, as long as we’re all losing our perspective at the same time – which, as a generation growing up with social media we are – then we don’t realise that our humanity is leaking away until its too late.
- the answer isn’t censorship (which won’t work), but rather in our social evolution catching up with the state of technology. We need to get back to a point as a society where – without thinking – we put our humanity before our ego.
- And what did he do when he saw a young girl bleeding to death? Did he run for help, or try to assist in stemming the bleeding? No he didn’t.
  
  Instead he pointed his camera at her and recorded her suffering, moving in closer to her face for her agonising final seconds. For all of our talk of citizen journalism, and getting the truth out, the last thing that terrified girl saw before she closed her eyes for the final time was some guy pointing a cameraphone at her. “Look at me, looking at her, looking back at me.”

23 Sep 09

New bibliography: Media in Everyday Life « media/anthropology

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26 Aug 09

Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by Aaron Zinman

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In a world where fortunes are sought through data-mining vast information repositories, the computer is
our indispensable but far from infallible assistant. Personas demonstrates the computer's uncanny insights
and its inadvertent errors, such as the mischaracterizations caused by the inability to separate data from
multiple owners of the same name. It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world,
where digital histories are as important if not more important than oral histories, and computational methods
of condensing our digital traces are opaque and socially ignorant.

Op-Ed Columnist - Stung by the Perfect Sting - NYTimes.com

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“The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered,” says Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic. “The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone’s drunk and ugly and they’re going to pass out in a few minutes.”
The judge cited a Virginia court decision that the Internet’s “virtually unlimited, inexpensive and almost immediate means of communication” with the masses means “the dangers of its misuse cannot be ignored. The protection of the right to communicate anonymously must be balanced against the need to assure that those persons who choose to abuse the opportunities presented by this medium can be made to answer for such transgressions.”
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- Cyberbullies, she wrote, cannot hide “behind an illusory shield of purported First Amendment rights.”
- But Cohen says the Internet is different than water-cooler gossip. “It’s there for the whole world to see,” she told me. “What happened to integrity?
- The Internet was supposed to be the prolix paradise where there would be no more gatekeepers and everyone would finally have their say. We would express ourselves freely at any level, high or low, with no inhibitions.
  Yet in this infinite realm of truth-telling, many want to hide. Who are these people prepared to tell you what they think, but not who they are? What is the mentality that lets them get in our face while wearing a mask? Shredding somebody’s character before the entire world and not being held accountable seems like the perfect sting.
- As Hugo Black wrote in 1960, “It is plain that anonymity has sometimes been assumed for the most constructive purposes.”
  But on the Internet, it’s often less about being constructive and more about being cowardly.

02 Jul 09

Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker

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This is the kind of error that technological utopians make. They assume that their particular scientific revolution will wipe away all traces of its predecessors—that if you change the fuel you change the whole system.
The only iron law here is the one too obvious to write a book about, which is that the digital age has so transformed the ways in which things are made and sold that there are no iron laws.

Gladwell Calls Out Insipid Digital Utopian : The World's Fair

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Web Bookmarks as Objects-to-Think-With

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13 Jun 09

Holocaust museum slaying exposes the hate within - Opinion - USATODAY.com

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Facebook Holocaust Deniers Mock Museum Shooting(With Picture) | THE CUBAN REVOLUTION

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Holocaust Museum Death Won’t Change Facebook’s Mind On Hate - But Advertisers May Be Able To

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22 Jan 09

apophenia: Internet Safety Technical Task Force Report

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16 Jan 09

Og så alligevel… » Facebook sociality in real life » the weblog of Andreas Lloyd

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Norms, Minorities, and Collective Choice Online [Full Text]

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12 Jan 09

History of the Internet - Motiongraphics Documentary - lonja – Melih Bilgil – Motion Design

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10 Jan 09

THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2009 — Page 2

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There are many scary things about today's world. But one that is truly thrilling is that the means of spreading both knowledge and inspiration have never been greater. Five years ago, an amazing teacher or professor with the ability to truly catalyze the lives of his or her students could realistically hope to impact maybe 100 people each year. Today that same teacher can have their words spread on video to millions of eager students. There are already numerous examples of powerful talks that have spread virally to massive Internet audiences.
Driving this unexpected phenomenon is the fact that the physical cost of distributing a recorded talk or lecture anywhere in the world via the internet has fallen effectively to zero. This has happened with breathtaking speed and its implications are not yet widely understood. But it is surely capable of transforming global education.
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- the realization that today's best teachers can become global celebrities is going to boost the caliber of those who teach
- In the past, everyone's success has depended on whether they were lucky enough to have a great mentor or teacher in their neighborhood.
- We can imagine her obtaining face-to-face insight and encouragement from her choice of the world's great teachers. She will get a chance to be what she can be. And she might just end up being the person who saves the planet for our grandchildren.

25 Nov 08

The Telecom Act, the Internet, and Higher Education

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I
want to talk about the Internet. The Internet is really big.
the Internet really is a new media and that it is the proof of
what Marshall McLuhan taught us thirty years earlier -- it is a new
media that subsumes all previous media and that extends all the senses
in infinite directions
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- Somehow or other,
  in this time period, we completely reversed the monopoly era in communications
  and instead embraced a period of competition and innovation and experimentation
  such as no other industry sector has ever seen in any other economy
  in the world. And better than that, somehow in this time period, the
  nation began the largest single national program ever to better education
  from K through 12 -- the largest single ever for K through 12 -- and
  that is the Snowe-Rockefeller Amendment to the 1996 Telecommunications
  Act, which at this very moment is causing $4 billion dollars in new
  money to be spent to put the Internet in every classroom in the country.
  In 1994 we had 9 percent of all classrooms online.
- fundamentally
  the most important reason why this impossibility in fact became an inevitability
  was the communications revolution itself -- this beckoning, exciting,
  magnetic thing.
- The technological dimension is the advances in fiber
  communication and in switching and in software all coming together at
  the same time to make possible multimedia transmission at a fantastically
  low price per bit.
- The price
  per bit is fantastically low.
- And the political dimension
  is that somehow or other in this country and in Mexico and in other
  countries, the idea of competition and innovation and invention and
  revolution and entrepreneurship has been embraced instead of regulated.
- Government has normally
  been used in every country by the established infrastructure, the established
  economic structure, to stifle innovation, reduce investment, limit competition,
  and ensure absolute reliability at the expense of all those other values.
  That's the normal history. And somehow, and it's complicated as to how,
  we have reversed that.
- The result is that we have, in this country and
  in Mexico and around the world, unleashed technological change, opened
  the door to economic transformation, turned upside down all structures;
  we have, in a word, revealed the Internet. I love this part in particular.
- The price for unlimited, always-online,
  ubiquitous, pervasive Internet access in the United States is more like
  one-tenth of what it is in Europe and one-hundredth of what it is in
  Asia. That is because we twisted many pretzels of logic, and we created
  many, many loopholes so that we would be pro-data and anti-voice, pro-entrepreneurship
  and anti-the recovery of historic cost, pro-revolution and anti-the
  status quo. It seemed like the right thing to do.
- she got a job in the new communications
  revolution. She became a switchboard operator, a job that had never
  existed before, a job that doesn't exist now, but a job that employed
  hundreds of thousands of unskilled people, largely women, in the United
  States. Because of the size and the dexterity of their hands, businesses
  thought they could be trained in this new technology, and this is how
  she got her family through the depression years.
- I said I hope that we will be able to create at least one new job and
  somehow have that story passed on. When I was done, Al took me by the
  arm and took me aside, and he said: "Only one new job? You set the bar
  really low."
- But while the economy is changing,
  it is also the case that the education world -- that every other sector
  of the country -- is also changing radically.
- When you have a public
  job -- it can be at a public university or a public school or it can
  be in public government -- you get to the job, and you have no idea
  at all what to do, but you have ten thousand people who are happy to
  tell you. So everybody troops in. There are ten thousand communication
  lobbyists in the United States, and they all came in to my office one
  after the other, then they came in groups, and then they came in larger
  groups, and then they formed whole armies that marched upon us at the
  FCC, and they all had an agenda. This is the way democracy works. It
  doesn't give you, if you're in an office, any time to think at all.
- I had --
  and this is a completely true story -- in 1984 been sitting in his office
  in the United States Senate, and Al Gore said, "I want to make sure
  that every schoolgirl in Carthage, Tennessee, can go to the Library
  of Congress." And I thought to myself, so we're having a bus-ticket
  voucher program? What is he talking about? And he began to talk about
  fiber-optic cable and the information highway -- a term that no one
  had ever heard of, and I certainly had never heard of
- So with Al's idea
  that somehow everyone in education would somehow be connected to everything
  that they would ever need to be educated about and to every person who
  would ever care about education, we set about, in government in 1994,
  to write this provision to the new Telecom Act.
- We were going to deregulate on the business side, and somehow
  we were going to squeeze the great business sector just enough to get
  the money out to put into the fund to connect all the classrooms.
- In November 1994 a new Congress came in and said it wanted to eliminate
  the Department of Education. It didn't want any new programs in the
  education area at all, which wasn't a good thing for our idea. Olympia
  Snowe, a Republican senator from Maine and someone who knew everything
  that there was to know about really needing to get educated in a remote
  area and not having an economic base in your state to pay for even an
  up-to-date library, joined hands with Jay Rockefeller from West Virginia,
  who knew the same things and also knew from three generations the obligation
  of the rich to give something to society.
- The American
  Library Association was incredibly helpful. The National Education Association,
  the NEA, was incredibly helpful. George Lucas was helpful. George Lucas,
  of Star Wars fame past and Star Wars fame present, picked up the phone
  and called me and said, "Don't they understand that with the new technology
  the whole nature of education will be changed?" He said, "Doesn't anyone
  understand the only power that really exists is the power of the idea?"
  I said, "Is that the same thing as the force?" He said, "Yes."
- Ninety percent
  of all the school districts in the country have applied for this in
  the last twelve months.
- It is a transformation for education, K through 12.
- We have always
  followed the following view. Teachers should be isolated with students.
  Theyshould not be able to be reached. They should not talk to other
  teachers. Paren ts should never be able to schedule meetings with them.
  We never really stated the rules this way, but this is the way they
  were. All PTA meetings should be scheduled at times that are impossible
  for anyone to attend. We should never have up-to-date information on
  any child, whether Johnny has lost his lunch money or Jane doesn't feel
  well. It should be impossible to have a dialogue between parents and
  teachers on how kids are doing. Information should be hoarded, concealed,
  hidden, shredded, or destroyed. It should not be built, created, shared,
  developed, or learned from. We should make distance learning extremely
  expensive and hard to accomplish, awkward technologically, and economically
  insurmountably impossible to implement. We should make sure that when
  you have children with disabilities, you teach them somewhere else at
  fantastic expense instead of using technology to mainstream them in
  any way whatsoever. This is what we have done if you really describe
  it the way it has been -- not that anyone ever said this is the way
  we want it, it's just that it's the way it was.
- And it is absolutely awe-inspiring
  and heartrending to see, as I saw, a quadriplegic, an individual who
  can breathe a little bit and barely move his eyes, and who with technology
  is totally mainstreamed in education in every particular respect.
- That's why these technologies need to be absolutely everywhere,
  available to absolutely everybody. We all know this. We've treated education
  like a commodity. In fact, it's the most specialized product ever invented.
  We all know this. We believe in standards in schools, but what we should
  not believe in is standardized tests. We should believe that everyone
  should meet certain standards, but we should not trust standardized
  tests to tell us how to teach a child or to tell us that child's potential
  because we know statistically that's not what they reveal.
- The other day I
  was out in Silicon Valley, and I was talking to an Angel financier,
  and she was telling me about a new business she'd invested in: a Starbuck's
  for college preparatory courses. Meaning, there's all these little offices
  or shopfronts, and you go in there, and there's somebody who uses the
  Net as a base for developing all the techniques, and you get a cram
  course for how to do well on the SAT, and it only costs $2,500. I listened
  to this story, and I thought, this is awful. This is not good. This
  is awful. For $2,500, you can use education to get a jump up on everybody
  else. This is only for people who are willing to find $2,500 or who
  can afford to find $2,500 to get the preparation.
- The Internet is
  all about community. In phase one, the Internet was about connection,
  any kind of connection. But in phase two, the one we're entering into
  now, it's all about community.
- What are portals except the rudimentary versions of the kinds of Internet
  communities that will be shaped by technology? And what is a university
  if it isn't a community? The Internet is the biggest threat to the system
  of higher education in this country that that system has ever seen,
  and it is a welcome, healthy threat.
- "Well, I've been in education all my
  life, and I've given a lot of thought to education, and I think the
  following. I think that, number one, the historic, primary purpose of
  the university was to have a library so that scholars could gather around
  it. And second, it was about a place where scholars could meet other
  scholars and work and talk to them. And third, it was about a place
  in which there would be a validation system so that smart people would
  be stamped: grade A, Yale; grade A, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  -- whatever. And next and fourth, it's about a place of quiet contemplation."
  And he said: "As far as I can figure out, all four of these purposes
  of a university are not just jeopardized but are probably invalid in
  the information age.
- The Internet changes
  everything. It absolutely disintermediates everything. Everywhere, the
  Internet goes to the intermediary and says, do you really serve a purpose?
  And insofar as the university itself is the retailer of knowledge to
  the consumer, the student, it is disintermediated. It is threatened.
- So what in the
  world are the intermediaries of higher education going to do about it?
  First of all, they ought to be darn glad that we are inventing a way
  to democratize education because that's fundamentally what this is all
  about: empowering the people who are ultimately the purpose of education,
  and that is the next generation, and disempowering those who have a
  role but it is a servant role, and that is the role of passing on the
  education to the next generation -- empowering the individual scholar
  and disempowering the institutions that the individual scholar should
  be served by and not have to serve. That is what the Internet is all
  about. And so the Internet is also an assault on elites.
- It's
  high time for the highest level of education to be democratized in this
  country.
- Fundamentally,
  the finest schools are really collections of the people with the finest
  capability to achieve and the finest ability to contribute. And ultimately,
  the glory of education in America is the ability of education to serve
  everyone and to serve the community and to serve the idea of America.
  And the great thing about America is that we have never had a recognized,
  a real separation between the academy and the rest of the world. It
  has fundamentally always been the case that we have seen and prized
  the integration and the melding of the purposes of the academy and the
  rest of the country.
- "Even
  if the human species were extinguished, the library would endure. Illuminated,
  solitary, infinite, perfectly motionless, equipped with precious volumes,
  useless, incorruptible, secret." And this image, this wonderful image,
  this frightening image of the academy is exactly what is impossible
  to sustain, even unintentionally, in the Internet age. Thank goodness.
- We, in fact, are just beginning to bring back fully
  to life and to meaning the American Dream, after twenty-five years of
  wondering whether it would survive. This is a pretty good place to be
  as we approach the twenty-first century, but we've got a lot of work
  to do here in the United States, and on a global basis, to lift everyone
  up to the kind of promise of opportunity and fulfillment that the information
  age can bring us.

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