I’m looking forward to reading this recently published report from the Internet & Democracy Project out of the Berkman Center titled Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture and Dissent. Interestingly, they found that Arabic bloggers tend to be more concerned with domestic rather than international issues, at least in their blogs. Some snippets below. We [...]
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Tagged: arabia, blogging, blogosphere, culture, politics
As the penetration of mobile technologies continues to grow, with an estimated 4 billion subscriptions world wide, Indians are rapidly adopting and incorporating such technologies into their lives. A recent article in The New York Times, which was brought to my attention via Smart Mobs, describes how users from all levels of Indian society are [...]
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Tagged: cellphones, contextcollapse, culture, India, mobile, technology
What do you all think? I just finished taking a couple exams today and I noticed something: neither of them taught me anything (besides how to take tests and that there is always a correct answer). The common paradigm seems to assume that all learning takes place in the classroom before the exam and that [...]
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Tagged: anthropology, culture, education, rant, testing