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/pretty-much/ http://www.adambohannon.org/pretty-much/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:15:55 +0000 adam http://www.adambohannon.org/?p=21981 ]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/pretty-much/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/see-no-evil-speak-no-evil/ http://www.adambohannon.org/see-no-evil-speak-no-evil/#comments Sat, 09 Apr 2011 22:32:36 +0000 adam http://www.adambohannon.org/?p=17342   [Monsanto is] playing a role in Iowa’s proposed anti-whistleblower bill — a bill focused primarily on agriculture. Should the bill pass, it will become illegal to produce undercover videos at various types of agricultural facilities (as well as to get a job at a facility with the express intent of producing a video). Sarah Damian of [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/see-no-evil-speak-no-evil/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/voice-or-no-voice/ http://www.adambohannon.org/voice-or-no-voice/#comments Sun, 06 Feb 2011 04:31:04 +0000 adam http://www.adambohannon.org/?p=14431 6v7tR.jpg (628×374).]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/voice-or-no-voice/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/dangerous-2/ http://www.adambohannon.org/dangerous-2/#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:54:23 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=414 Came across this nice podcast questioning our priorities in education here in the US.  Mark Slouka, an English professor at the University of Chicago, talks about why he thinks our education has been “dehumanized” and why this is potentially destructive.  Right now, in a recession, everyone understands that in order to survive universities must allocate [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/dangerous-2/feed/ 3 http://www.adambohannon.org/social-stratification-in-civic-engagement-reproduced-online/ http://www.adambohannon.org/social-stratification-in-civic-engagement-reproduced-online/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:33:12 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=397 “A new report by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project shows that the internet is not changing the fundamental socio-economic character of civic engagement in America. When it comes to online activities such as contributing money, contacting a government official or signing an online petition, the wealthy and well-educated continue to lead [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/social-stratification-in-civic-engagement-reproduced-online/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/impact-tech-politics-politics-tech/ http://www.adambohannon.org/impact-tech-politics-politics-tech/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:37:08 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=372 Via SmartMobs and blip.tv – Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, on how tech has changed Politics.  Many great points here and it leaves me wondering not only about the future relationship between tech and politics, but how participatory democracy will in turn shape the tools that helped it emerge.]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/impact-tech-politics-politics-tech/feed/ 0 http://www.adambohannon.org/united-states-land-big-business-small/ http://www.adambohannon.org/united-states-land-big-business-small/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:24:30 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=336 A recent report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research using data from the OECD measures the share of employment in small businesses in 22 rich democracies (list found on page 4).  From the summary: An important part of our national identity is built around the idea that – thanks to low taxes, limited [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/united-states-land-big-business-small/feed/ 2 http://www.adambohannon.org/anthropology-wall-street/ http://www.adambohannon.org/anthropology-wall-street/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:37:27 +0000 Adam http://www.adambohannon.org/blog/?p=280 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9rUzLoKpfs For several years, anthropologist Karen Ho worked at an investment firm on Wall Street.  Her experience there resulted in her dissertation Liquefying Corporations and Communities:  Wall Street World Views and Socioeconomic Transformations in the Post-Industrial US. Today, Time released a brief interview with Ho, in which she discusses her thoughts on what’s wrong with [...]]]> http://www.adambohannon.org/anthropology-wall-street/feed/ 0