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That thing about academia
Imported from Menticulture
So I've been trying to work out how to develop the theme I started a week or two ago about how academia seems always to avoid, escape and devalue "practice" even as it strives to be the only institution that might legitimise that "practice". It was a long-winded post about complicated academic language, written with complicated academic language.
Academia vs Practice
The Paradoxical Academic
Imported from Menticulture
The most impressive management skill is to be able to hold and argue in favour of two contrary, exclusive and irreconcilable positions at the same time.
Draft review notes #2
Imported from Menticulture
[Some contextual notes for my PhD, regarding the status of participatory media in academia and industry]
So much for the pressure to conserve industry interests: capital ensures 'quality' and disseminates self-perpetuating ideological discourses, while the vernacular and the demotic voices are marginalised and reminded of their powerlessness.
Draft review notes #2
Imported from Menticulture
[Some contextual notes for my PhD, regarding the status of participatory media in academia and industry]
Draft review notes #1
Imported from Menticulture
[Some contextual notes for my PhD, regarding the status of participatory media in academia and industry]
In the early 2000s, following the dot-com crash, the press, the broadcasting, music and publishing industries reassured themselves that 'online' would never seriously encroach onto their activities.
Draft review notes #1
Imported from Menticulture
[Some contextual notes for my PhD, regarding the status of participatory media in academia and industry]
Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2008-08-01T10:01:50Z]
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- Twilight of the Books: A Critic at Large: The New Yorker
some sociologists speculate that reading books for pleasure will one day be the province of a special ?reading class?
Tags: reading books entropy-meme psychology literacy orality
- Writers' Representatives, LLC: The Sins of Edward Said
hatchet job on Said's Orientalism
Tags: edward-said orientalism islam post-colonialism
- Google Takes Aim at Wikipedia, Is Now Officially a Media Company - John Battelle's Searchblog
there's a great rant against wikipedia in the comments from someone who's obviously been stung by it
Tags: wikipedia google knol knowledge expertise
- ?Journalism without Journalists,?
poor old journos
Tags: journalism msm media-participation citizen-journalism
- 'Bad Samaritans' and 'myth' of free trade
Developed nations try to srongarm developing countries into trade agreements despite their own history of protectionism and imperial looting
Tags: capitalism democracy economics free-trade hypocrisy market
- IBM software acts as human memory backup
self-surveillance: "we don't have magic, so we're trying to use today's magic wand, which is the mobile phone equipped with a digital camera and GPS"
Tags: technologies-of-the-self memory surveillance
- Slashdot | UK P2P Fight Brewing
Comment: "Digital music and the internet removes any artificial barrier the music/movie industry has traditionally held, and now they are having to resort to pressuring governments into making laws to secure their channels"
Tags: p2p ISP BPI RIAA piracy
- New In Rainbows Numbers Offer Lessons for Music Industry | Listening Post from Wired.com
the music industry needs to stop thinking of shared files as lost sales, and start treating them as an aspect of reality upon which they can build part of their businesses.
Tags: RIAA copyright piracy music p2p commerce business
- Magazine Preview - Malwebolence - The World of Web Trolling - NYTimes.com
a panopticon in reverse ? nobody can see anybody, and everybody can claim to speak from the center
Tags: trolls trolling psychology online behaviour
- Free articles get read but don't generate more citations
and of course the focus of this study is the incentive of citation, rather than the accessibility of new knowledge
Tags: academia open-access information knowledge
Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2007-10-26T19:47:55Z]
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- The Valve - A Literary Organ | Work in Progress: Humanities Network
the new network will cover three areas: philosophy, classics, and English and American literature
Tags: academia learning research network arts humanities
- LOLCode.net - Now your LOLCats can use the CLR! - Nick's blog
LOLCode is an emerging esoteric (and hilarious) language based on the dialect used in LOLCats images.
Tags: humour lol programming code awesome
- Online Citizen Journalism Now Undeniably Mainstream
It's interesting to see how the techniques and technologies of amateur, citizen journalists are adopted, co-opted, and integrated by the mainstream media
Tags: media-participation citizen-journalism journalism msm
- Words to Be Looked At - The MIT Press
In many of these works, language has been reduced to an object nearly emptied of meaning
Tags: calligramme poetry words art visual
Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2007-04-10T12:04:23Z]
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- elearningpapers
Tags: e-learning blended-learning
- ICWSM || Program
Tags: blogging theory academia social
- globeandmail.com: Apple wins over EMI on downloads
Tags: emi riaa apple drm
- List of free online flash games
Tags: flash game
- BlogSafety Community: Predators & cyberbullies: Reality ...
Tags: online bullying safety cyberbullying predation grooming
- Alternate Reality Games SIG/Whitepaper - IGDAwiki
Tags: ARG game
Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2007-03-01T00:37:14Z]
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- Wired 15.03: Herding the Mob
Tags: spam hack mob community
- Boing Boing: Documentaries on Google Video
Tags: video documentary archive
- Boing Boing: Pop-up porn case update
Tags: porn law
- Slashdot | RIAA Announces New Campus Lawsuit Strategy
Tags: RIAA piracy law
- RIAA slams FAIR USE Act
Tags: copyright RIAA propaganda
- Blogs / Weblogs in Higher Education
Tags: history academia memory activism
- Wired News: Video Killed the Distributor
Tags: music industry RIAA
- WIRED Blogs: Monkey Bites
Tags: audio format software
- Ponderance: Advertising from the Future - Children of Men
Tags: advertising future
Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2007-02-08T11:54:17Z]
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- O'Reilly Radar > Pipes and Filters for the Internet
Tags: pipes programming mashup
- Slashdot | University Professor Chastised For Using Tor
Tags: academia censorship
- Music as torture/Music as weapon
Tags: music torture war weapon
- Boing Boing: Pentagon Sued Over Milblog-Monitoring
Tags: military blogging
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Digital treasure hunt gets winner
Tags: ARG perplex-city
- Warner Music announces Last.fm deal
Tags: DRM music content online market commerce
- Infinite Loop: RIAA to Jobs: Thanks for the offer to license FairPlay
Tags: apple DRM riaa
- Wired: AP Technology and Business News from the Outside World on Wired.com
Tags: apple DRM riaa
- Slashdot | To Media Companies, BitTorrent Implies Guilt
Tags: bittorrent riaa propaganda
- The American Spectator
Tags: propaganda politics
- Boing Boing: Massive cache of kittah pictures
Tags: cat meme pictures humour
- Change.org
Tags: activism community
- Change.org: Social Network For Social Activism
Tags: activism community
- networked_performance: lifelogging
Tags: lifeblogging
- Video games train the visual system
Tags: game vision neurology brain
- Lifeblogging: Is a virtual brain good for the real one?
Tags: lifeblogging
- Pew Internet: Tagging
Tags: tagging folksonomy survey statistics
- Slashdot | A Wikipedia WIthout Graffiti
Tags: wikipedia quality
- Wooster Collective: Some Thoughts on Last Week in Boston
Tags: advertising guerilla stealth streetart
- e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Serious Games Discussion on what to call the "interactive part" of a serious game and the fate of competing realities
Tags: game learning discourse
- Art MoCo: "Delete! - Delettering the Public Space"
Tags: advertising streetart
- Wired News: The Wii Is a Plastic Box of Death
Tags: game violence humour
Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2007-01-09T00:41:41Z]
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- The American Scholar - Getting It All Wrong - By Brian Boyd
Tags: theory literature post-structuralism science language academia
- Table of Malcontents
Tags: game media-effects
- BrownPride.com : Chicano / Latino Artists | Chicano / Latino Street Murals
Tags: streetart
- hypertemps
Tags: avant-garde
- www.hz-journal.org
Tags: technology audio
- globeandmail.com: At Anarchist U, it's all about structure
Tags: anarchist education
- Boing Boing: Update on Iran's latest 'net crackdown: mandatory site registry
Tags: iran censorship
- Boing Boing: Book distributor bankruptcy means indie publishers screwed?
Tags: book publishing capitalism
- MyDeathSpace.com
Tags: death first-person-media
- Wired News: Who's Killing MP3 and ITunes?
Tags: mp3 file-sharing DRM RIAA commerce
- graffiti archaeology
Tags: graffiti streetart
- Boing Boing: Second Life frees source code under GPL
Tags: second-life OSS
- Opposable Thumbs: Video game story may have led to college-level censorship
Tags: game violence race stereotype
- CAUTION: Childen at Play - The Truth About Violent Youth and Video Games
Tags: violence game
Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2006-12-09T08:14:41Z]
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- Slashdot | HR 5252 Bill Dies
Tags: network-neutrality
- BBC NEWS | Nick Robinson's Newslog | White House news conference
Tags: bbc
- Pirates Spoof Vista's Enterprise Activation - News by InformationWeek
Tags: ms hacking vista
- NewsForge | Assessing the true cost of One Laptop Per Child
Tags: OLPC
- Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~
Tags: information literacy
- Reason Magazine - South Park Libertarians
Tags: south-park censorship msm libertarianism
- Nobel Intent: Industrial research - what's new?
Tags: research science industry academia
- Glassy Eyes | Shattering the Eyeglasses Scam
Tags: glasses
Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2006-04-06T11:35:46Z]
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- RIAA crying wolf all the way to the bank
Tags: RIAA music piracy sales
- Prof denied grant over evolution
Tags: science academia funding religion post-structuralism evolution
Tags: php http-auth
- Edge 179
Tags: science research future trends
- Boing Boing: Fishapod fossil: suck on this, Creationists!
Tags: tiktaalik art science
- Ray Troll's Troll Art.com: FinArt & Weird Science
Tags: tiktaalik art science
- Podcast study shows current and future trends
Tags: podcasting trends
- Britannica attacks Nature in newspaper ads
Tags: britannica nature science wiki quality
- Boing Boing: Smithsonian's Showtime sellout needs FOIA sunshine
Tags: archive copyright market US IP
- Developers fast to fix open-source bugs | Tech News on ZDNet
Tags: OSS
- Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits
Tags: net-neutrality us law
- UT professor says death is imminent
Tags: death apocalypse genocide ecology population
- Readers flock to online newspaper sites - CyberJournalist.net - Readers flock to online newspaper sites
Tags: news msm internet journalism
Evil Bidet of Elitism
Imported from Menticulture
Linkage - [del.icio.us: 2005-06-25T11:59:07Z]
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- The Shifted Librarian
blog
Tags: internet information sociology
- Mastermix dot org old school pirate bootleg mp3s
blog
Tags: retro mix-tape podcasting blog
- He's The Inventor of Podcasting by Norm Augustinus.
misc
Tags: podcasting satire
- | Steve Gillmor's Inforouter | ZDNet.com
blog
Tags: tech blog
- The Shifted Librarian: Why RSS and Folksonomies Are Becoming So Big
misc
Tags: folksonomy
- Wired News: Boston Gets High on Art
misc
Tags: cyberart art multimedia
- Vlog.com - Video Blogs
blog
Tags: video blog community
- Podcast Directory: PublicRadioFeeds.com
misc
Tags: podcasting public radio feeds
- Face to Face With The Great Firewall of China
misc
Tags: china internet firewall digital divide
- Dutch academics declare research free-for-all | The Register
Tags: academia open access research
- Wooster Collective : Stickers / Posters / Graf / Culture Jamming
Tags: streetart
- The Submarine
misc
Tags: pr msm news
- ?Sita Sings the Blues? - Sepia Mutiny
art
Tags: art animation
- Podscope
misc
Tags: podcasting search engine
- dorkbotlondon
Tags: uk electronic art community
- S O U N D T O Y S . N E T
Tags: sound gadgets multimedia
- Nowhere Man
podcast
Tags: personal podcasting
- BritCaster
podcast
Tags: uk podcasting community
- The Podcastoutlaws Network
podcast
Tags: podcasting community
- Bluggcast
podcast
Tags: uk tech podcasting
- 2600 | Off The Wall
podcast
Tags: hacker podcasting
- Strange Music in Small Doses
podcast
Tags: music podcasting
- The Insomnia Radio Podcast
podcast
Tags: music podcasting
- Radio Clash Mash Up Podcast - a weekly podcast of mixes, mash-ups, and more!
podcast
Tags: mashup podcasting
- EchoRadio | EchoDitto
podcast
Tags: grassroots podcasting
- My Silver Mount Zion
podcast
Tags: music podcasting
- Science Friday: Making Science Radioactive
podcast
Tags: science podcasting
- Benjamen Walker's Theory Of Everything
podcast
Tags: eclectic podcasting blog
- Up the Tree
podcast
Tags: music podcasting
- Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Italian TV to screen Dutch film despite Muslim protests over
misc
Tags: media ethics
- Radio Free Calamity
podcast
Tags: podcasting
- Art Mobs
grassroots
Tags: art podcasting grassroots
- we make money not art
blog about net art, new media art, multimedia art, electronic art, just basically arty stuff, really
Tags: multimedia art blog
