Search results for "post-colonialism "
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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
