ain’t really your life, ain’t really ain’t nothing but a movie. Repeat. Ad infinitum. Was reminded today, after reading a superb review of Thomas de Zengotita’s book Mediated, of how much my life resembles a B movie. A really, really unoriginal B movie. Thoroughly mediated. Thoroughly cliche. Can you think of any moment in your [...]
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I came across a haunting trailer today for a documentary by (of?) Josh Harris and Ondi Timoner called We Live in Public. According to Jason Calacanis, who wrote an excellent email-turned-blog-post about the documentary’s subject matter, “It’s a cautionary tale about the dehumanizing effects of technology, a somber topic that we all need to consider [...]
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Tagged: anthropology, context collapse, culture, empathy, identity, media, privacy, public, self, sociology, technology
Communities of Practice and virtual learning communities: benefits, barriers and success factors by Pat Gannon-Leary, Northumbria University, UK & Elsa Fontainha, ISEG – Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. This article discusses the factors important to the development and maintenance of virtual communities of practice, or “network[s] of individuals who share a domain of interest about [...]
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