http://www.adambohannon.org Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:15:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.adambohannon.org/thomas-de-zengotita-on-authenticity/ http://www.adambohannon.org/thomas-de-zengotita-on-authenticity/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 20:57:34 +0000 adam http://www.adambohannon.org/?p=17893 ]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/thomas-de-zengotita-on-authenticity/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/now-this-video/ http://www.adambohannon.org/now-this-video/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 05:39:49 +0000 adam http://www.adambohannon.org/?p=17855 The only thing that consoles us for our miseries is diversion, and yet it is the greatest of our miseries. - Pascal Met the creator of this video at a Media Ecology conference a few years ago. The idea comes from the book Amusing Ourselves To Death by Neil Postman. Read it.]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/now-this-video/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/libyan-rebels-build-benghazi-media-center-to-battle-gaddafi-forces-through-the-internet-airwaves/ http://www.adambohannon.org/libyan-rebels-build-benghazi-media-center-to-battle-gaddafi-forces-through-the-internet-airwaves/#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 22:07:42 +0000 adam http://www.adambohannon.org/?p=16572 The revolution will not (just) be televised.]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/libyan-rebels-build-benghazi-media-center-to-battle-gaddafi-forces-through-the-internet-airwaves/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/the-%e2%80%9880s-origins-of-today%e2%80%99s-anti-muslim-bigotry/ http://www.adambohannon.org/the-%e2%80%9880s-origins-of-today%e2%80%99s-anti-muslim-bigotry/#comments Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:56:48 +0000 adam http://www.adambohannon.org/?p=16168 … roughly a third of the most blatantly anti-Muslim films of the last century were made in the 1980s alone. These movies used sporadic atrocities committed by individual Islamic extremists (the Lebanon bombing, the Berlin bombing, etc.) to demonize all Muslims. Consequently, Hollywood’s go-to villain in the 1980s became the Muslim terrorist—whether it was “Iron [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/the-%e2%80%9880s-origins-of-today%e2%80%99s-anti-muslim-bigotry/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/social-media-revolution/ http://www.adambohannon.org/social-media-revolution/#comments Fri, 28 Jan 2011 05:34:18 +0000 adam http://www.adambohannon.org/social-media-revolution/ Worth a read. “To be honest, so much of the rhetoric around the use of social media in Egypt and Tunisia makes me want to scream — folks act like these American tools just dropped from the sky like humanitarian food rations, set to save the people from their (American-supported, natch) dictators.” http://jilliancyork.com/2011/01/27/how-are-protestors-in-egypt-using-social-media/]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/social-media-revolution/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/this-aint-really-your-life/ http://www.adambohannon.org/this-aint-really-your-life/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:37:09 +0000 adam http://www.adambohannon.org/?p=611 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 [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/this-aint-really-your-life/feed/ 2 http://www.adambohannon.org/i-have/ http://www.adambohannon.org/i-have/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:00:17 +0000 adam http://www.adambohannon.org/?p=548 great friends that I don’t deserve. I say this because despite how aggressively I might want to seek and create authentic connections in my life, I’m terrible at actually doing it. That ultimately means I’m terrible at cultivating friendships and giving them the attention they need to survive. It’s most likely a combination of my [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/i-have/feed/ 1 http://www.adambohannon.org/school-reform-students-artists/ http://www.adambohannon.org/school-reform-students-artists/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:04:49 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=324 Henry Jenkins of MIT’s Comparative Media Lab discusses how many of our students today are being de-skilled as they enter schools where the digital tools they are using outside of the school environment are invalidated.  Not only are many critical online resources blocked by crude filters but  “[teachers] tell kids again and again that what [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/school-reform-students-artists/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/live-public-empathy/ http://www.adambohannon.org/live-public-empathy/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:45:45 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=246 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 [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/live-public-empathy/feed/ 2 http://www.adambohannon.org/wisdom-edward-hall/ http://www.adambohannon.org/wisdom-edward-hall/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:41:54 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=185 A few highlights from my current read, Edward T. Hall‘s Beyond Culture (Chapter 4 – Hidden Culture) “…language is not…a system for transferring thoughts or meaning from one brain to another, but a system for organizing information and for releasing thoughts and responses in other organisms.” (pg 57) (my emphasis) “Two things get in the [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/wisdom-edward-hall/feed/ 1