Emerging Media Thoughts

The Britannica Blog (yes I read their blog, I find it amusing that luddites have blogs) has a post today about authorship and Raymond Carver. It seems there is a bit of a controversy over who actually wrote his earlier stories. Seems that people are rather invested in showing the “real” Raymond Carver, and making [...]

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For an example of Wikipedia at its best visit the rapidly changing article on the Burmese Protests. The military juanta in has a long record of violent response to uprisings. With traditional media often ignoring, or not having access to information in Burma the power of the Smart Mob has taken over.

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As a demonstration of the Panopticon and related to the Smart Mobs assignment for next week, consider the following: A professor at Pitzer now teaches a class on and thru YouTube. In other words all of the assignments, class meetings, etc are posted for all to see. The class page can be found here on [...]

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Here are the two examples that we discussed in class today.

First the one you should avoid.
Miss South Carolina Teen said:
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and the- [...]

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