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'technology' Tag
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Capital ‘I’ for Internet?
December 3, 2009Do you capitalize “Internet?” Some scholars from the emerging field of ‘Internet studies’ say no. I say yes.
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Working Within Wikipedia: Infrastructures of Knowing and Knowledge Production
March 30, 2009While Wikipedia does have epistemic standards, the open question is how such an epistemology can be operationalized and enforced.
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Technology in the Classroom: A Response to Arthur Bochner
August 9, 2008An outright ban on technology in the classroom – which may or may not include the pen and paper – is not the right answer. If one wishes to curb disruptive behavior, then ban disruptive behavior instead of banning all the little things that could be disruptive.
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Wikimania 2008: Wikipedia as Real Utopia with Edo Navot
July 20, 2008Wikipedia as Real Utopia: Governance, knowledge production, and the institutional structure of Wikipedia – Edo Navot, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Sociology. Here follows my rough transcription of his speech, followed by my comments. The fact that his is the only presentation I have so far commented on should be taken as a sign of respect, [...]
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Wikimania 2008: Content and the Internet in the (Globalized) Middle East
July 18, 2008Content and the Internet in the (Globalized) Middle East, Dr. Ahmed Tantawi, Technical Director, IBM Middle East and North Africa. Another copy of my notes from Wikimania 2008 – this was the keynote speech on the second day of the conference. He began by warning us that, “I’ve changed this presentation, and I’ll change it [...]
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Wikimania 2008: Education and the Wiki Paradigm: A Tug of War?
July 17, 2008This was part of the opening keynote in Wikimania 2008, given by the Egyptian Deputy Minister of Communication and IT, Hoda Baraka. Here are my notes, again without any commentary – I apologize for them not being cleaner.
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Wikimania 2008: Opening Keynote with Egyptian Minister Ahmed Darwish
July 17, 2008The official theme or slogan for this year’s Wikimania is “the knowledge revolution that is changing wisdom.” I think this phrase – especially the difference between knowledge and wisdom – was chosen very carefully and I think it is an excellent distinction to make. This morning’s opening ceremony began with a speech from the Egyptian [...]
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Response: Neuromancer by William Gibson
March 23, 2007William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer tells the story of a team of radically different technologically-savvy individuals who are recruited by a young artificial intelligence named Wintermute, who desires to bypass the limitations placed on it by its owners and the authorities.
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Response: Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City by William Mitchell
January 29, 2007In his book Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City, William Mitchell describes how information technology – specifically digital, wireless networks which are accessed primarily through portable devices – fundamentally changes how we interact with others. More than anything else, “[c]onnectivity had become the defining characteristic of our twenty-first-century urban condition” (11). For Mitchell, [...]
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Open Source Software: The Newest Specter?
November 23, 2005Corporate adoption of open source software should not be viewed as antithetical to capitalism; rather, it is an example of corporations co-opting Communism to become more capitalist.