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A study finds that, while college faculty tend to be more liberal than the general population, college students' political beliefs are more strongly influenced by their peers than by their teachers. Intuitively this makes a lot of sense to me given my sense of a culture gap between faculty and students at many institutions.

Tags: academe, politics, culture, social_science, opinion, research on 2008-10-14 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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On the idea of "ambient intimacy." Lots of discussion of Twitter and Facebook. Thoughtful and interesting. Not finished yet. Too long for my Twitter-addled attention span. Permalink: http://snipr.com/3nj2z

Tags: media, social, journalism, opinion, twitter, facebook, microblogging, microcontent, friendship, society, culture, psychology, internet, web, 2.0 on 2008-09-06 and saved by8 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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This is linguist and historian Peter Austin's personal top-ten list of endangered languages around the world -- kind of an idiosyncratic little column, but interesting.

Tags: language, international, news, culture, commentary on 2008-08-31 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Part of the "Is Critique Secular?" series.

Tags: blogclip, religion, secularism, environment, future, history, !toread, sociology, culture, academe on 2008-08-18 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Tags: !toread, via:friendfeed, culture, media, internet, commentary on 2008-08-17 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Pretty good basic reference on Jameson's works.

Tags: literature, criticism, marxism, reference, marx, cultural_studies, culture on 2008-08-17 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Seems genuinely good, if some of the content is maybe a little breathless (like, Omni Magazine style).

Tags: commentary, culture, technology, science on 2008-07-27 and saved by122 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Tags: !toread, typography, culture, law on 2008-07-08 -All Annotations (0) -About

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On the value of literature, the value of college, and the relationship between them.

Tags: education, literature, blogclip, pedagogy, culture, criticism on 2008-07-07 -All Annotations (0) -About

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A cached version of Umberto Eco's 1995 article (from the NYRB) listing the fourteen components of "eternal Fascism." These include, inter alia, traditionalism and anti-modernism; irrationalism and contempt for culture and critical thought; a cult of actio

Tags: commentary, criticism, culture, del.icio.us_import, fascism, history, literature, politics, scary on 2007-05-15 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Looks cool. Connected with UPenn's Annenberg Center, which stands behind some of the most important and serious media and cultural scholarship today.

Tags: america, blog, check_this_out, criticism, culture, del.icio.us_import, journalism, popular_culture, post:tumblr, television on 2007-04-22 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Looks cool. Connected with UPenn's Annenberg Center, which stands behind some of the most important and serious media and cultural scholarship today.

Tags: america, blog, check_this_out, criticism, culture, del.icio.us_import, journalism, popular_culture, post:tumblr, television on 2007-04-22 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Orion is the best. Here are some scattered musings on the peculiar material culture of modern America -- bottled (polluted) river water, photographs of a flood, organic Kraft Mac & Cheese.

Tags: art, commentary, culture, del.icio.us_import, environment on 2007-01-14 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Smart piece on the historical and anthropological meaning of gift-giving, and why it matters now. In face-to-face societies, the author argues, wealth loses its value if it does not circulate, and hence gift-giving is more admired than hoarding (i.e., acc

Tags: blogclip, culture, del.icio.us_import, economics on 2006-12-20 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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A profile of Simon Schama.

Tags: culture, del.icio.us_import, history, news, print_and_read on 2006-06-28 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Interesting-looking article.

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Truthout's reprint of Michelle Goldberg in Salon.com

Tags: controversy, culture, del.icio.us_import, evolution, religion on 2005-08-26 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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