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07 Jun 08

Emory University---Mark Bauerlein

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.
01 Jun 08

Christa Couture :: About

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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AccessIT | What is assistive technology?

  • 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.
25 May 08

GreenvilleOnline.com | Plight of Migrant Workers Blemishes Dubai's Image

  • 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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GreenvilleOnline.com | China's Migrant Workers Return Home after Quake

  • Sichuan is China's second most populous province and one of its poorest. Its biggest export is migrant workers - 11 million of them, or 13 percent of its 87.5 million population. They provide much of the muscle for China's economic transformation, filling jobs in manufacturing, construction, and coal mines around the country.

  • When Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, a native of Sichuan, promoted the country's economic development in the 1990s during his famous southern tour, the government loosened up restrictions on travel, encouraging people from farms and rural areas to move to big cities and coastal areas to work at factories and construction sites.

    An estimated 140 million took heed, according to government figures.

24 May 08

Immigration Officials Arrest 905 in California Sweep - NYTimes.com

  • In the process of seeking each person on the list, Ms. Mack said, agents often encountered friends, family members and others who had violated immigration laws.

    “Agents may come to a house looking for a target, and someone answers the door, or there are other people in the house who have also violated immigration laws,” she said.

  • In addition to the 495 of those found, 410 people were taken into custody on charges of violating immigration laws, he said. Other violations included returning after being deported, overstaying a visa, or living in the country without any legal documentation, Ms. Mack said. Over half of all arrested this month have been deported.
23 May 08

The Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era

  • In The Age of Oprah, media scholar and journalist Janice Peck traces Winfrey’s growing cultural impact and illustrates the fascinating parallels between her road to fame and fortune and the political-economic rise of neoliberalism in this country. While seeking to understand Oprah’s ascent to near iconic status that she enjoys today, Peck’s book provides a fascinating window into the intersection of American politics and culture over the past quarter century.
  • Janice Peck teaches media studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of a book on religious television and has published work on media theory, television and the family, cultural studies, TV talk shows, advertising, and representations of race in media. She also worked as a journalist and editor for newspapers, magazines and radio.

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Asian Migrant Centre - AMC Overview

  • Based in Hong Kong, the Asian Migrant Centre (AMC) operates as a monitoring, research, information, publishing, training, support and action center dedicated to the promotion of the human rights and empowerment of migrant workers and their families in Asia.
  • AMC’s primary goal is to promote the human rights, dignity and empowerment of migrant workers and their families in Asia, so that they are able to assert and defend their rights and interests, and become partners in sustainable, just and gender-fair social development.

Greener One: About Us

  • It is clear that our consumption has had an enormous
    detrimental effect on the environment. Greener One therefore believes that an important
    part of helping the environment comes from taking a closer look at the items we
    consume – whether they are paper towels, household appliances, or automobiles –
    and choosing products and services that are greener and therefore better for the
    planet.
  • Greener
    One created a way for people to compare products on an environmental basis and to
    share product information with one another. A variety of factors for each product
    are converted into a simple “green index” score that can be easily understood by
    anyone.
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Google | The Literacy Project

  • A resource for teachers, literacy organizations and anyone interested in reading and education, created in collaboration with LitCam, Google, and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning.

A.nnotate.com - Online Document Annotation

  • Private or shared review, indexing and discussion with notes and tags
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