I enjoyed reading Code 2.0, mostly because (and I never thought I’d ever hear myself saying this) it was refreshing to hear the consitutional lawyer’s opinions and perspective over a bunch of over-stimulated technologists/academics. Yes, friends, Hell has just frozen …
While reading the Shirky book, I couldn’t help but think back to an episode in my life, about 3 or 4 years ago, when I decided I wanted to get Lasik surgery. I visited a local doctor’s office (you know, …
“The Exploit” was an interesting extension to last week’s read and discussion on “Connected” reading.
One of the key items that I thought the authors surfaced in discussing ‘nodes’ was that one of the failings of mathematical network theory is …
“Connected” is a great overview of network theory through today’s various social networking ‘configurations’. The authors really do a great job of taking the reader along, referring to studies and statistics, but not getting over-analytical or mired in the details …
Honestly, I found the two readings this week to be a bit opaque. I could clearly see that Nichols’ article was a revisionist approach to the Benjamin article, but I found neither reading very compelling or interesting. Perhaps I missed …
Fun opinion article today in the NYTimes about some of the things we talked about in class last night…
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/opinion/15turow.html
For me, the focus of Eisenstein’s book focused on the cultural significance the printing press had on early European culture. Specifically, one of the things I found most fascinating was her attempt to put the reader into the culture of …
For this week’s reading (Bolter and Gruesin – “Remediation), I had to keep referring to the title page over and over thinking to myself, “What is the date this was written again?”
What most interested me in this week’s readings was Ong’s firm assertion that “oral literature” was a term that should be abolished from our lexicon, and that there really can be no such thing as “oral literature”.
His assertion that …
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