January 2011
29 posts
The Off- Whites: Defining Personhood →
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So, fear of the Mexican Other now has right-wingers attempting to rewrite the Constitution. This fear of a racialized other is not new (nor, as the “Tiger Mother” kerfuffle reveals all too well, is it limited to Latinos); over a century ago it was the Irish who were deemed sub-human.
The…
Regional dialects are alive and well on Twitter: Slang terms like y'all, yinz, koo, coo and suttin predict location of tweet authors →
sciencedaily.com
researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science find that regional slang and dialects are as evident in tweets as they are in everyday conversations.
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“If you don’t learn how to be alone, you’ll always be lonely, that loneliness is failed solitude. We’re raising a generation that has grown up with constant connection, and only knows how to be lonely when not connected. This capacity for generative solitude is very important for the creative process, but if you grow up thinking it’s your right and due to be tweeted and retweeted, to have thumbs up on Facebook…we’re losing a capacity for autonomy both intellectual and emotional.”
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From Fast Company’s interview with Sherry Turkle about her new book Alone Together:Why we Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other
This is on my list of things to read in the coming weeks. I tend use the word alienation to make the same points Turkle makes about loneliness. Perhaps it’s time for me to think meaningfully about the difference between the two states of being. My sense is that they are both instances of internal anxieties projected onto the outside world regardless of the presence or lack thereof of other people. No doubt there is subtle differences between the two that I am overlooking.
(via modernandmaterialthings)
liminal spaces☭: field recordings as reinforcing oppression and exploitation? →
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a coworker of mine and i traded dulcimer music! i gave him a cd of mostly roma cimbalom(dulcimer) music from hungary, romania and the ukraine with an additional zither song from the philippines. he just gave me lo ka ping’s: lost sounds of the tao- chinese masters of the guqin in historic…
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“Avoid hurting the hearts of others, the poison of your pain will return to you.”
—Native American Code of Ethics (via rasputin)
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imlaurenpeters: What does that mean to the patient? →
imlaurenpeters.com
If you’ve been following my senior project redo (from 2009), I’ve been spending some more time reworking things. During Thanksgiving I did a little ethnography to observe the reaction of a few patients and their first time on the medicare website with the ultimate goal of finding and purchasing a…
“If you do a Google image search of the number “241543903” you will find a strange social internet experiment that will amaze you.”
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