Summary
“Generation M” starts off by saying how children and adolescents have always had a major effect on new media and how people have always given attention to the role of media in children, ranging from the how the Brothers Grimm edited their fairy tales to social scientists actively studying children and media. It gives statistics on how much media has changed from the mid 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century and provides statistics on a wide range of new media objects present...
Friday
Monday
"Toward a New Epistemology of Wikipedia - Fallis
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Don Fallis, from the School of Information Resources and Library Science at the University of Arizona, explores the many facets of Wikipedia and why it should studied by epistemologists in his paper entitled "Toward a New Epistemology of Wikipedia." He defines epistemology as "the study of what knowledge is and how people can acquire it," (2) and believes that Wikipedia should be studied by others in his field because of the way it draws users to its database of knowledge. "Why...
Why You Can't Cite Wikipedia In My Class - Waters
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In an opinion piece, Middlebury College history professor Neil Waters argues why Wikipedia is not a valid source of information for any of his classes. While he values Wikipedia as a starting point for any research endeavor, the fact that the encyclopedia is an open-source platform...
Tuesday
A Thousand Plateaus-Gille Deleuze and Félis Fuatarri
SUMMARY- In the introduction to A Thousand Plateaus, Gille Deleuze and Félis Fuatarri use pseudonyms in describing the way human knowledge is spread through literature. They describe a book as a machine and literature as an assemblage, but not ideology (407). They say there is no difference in how a book is made and what it talks about. Writing is measured by units, which define writing as “the measure of something else” (408). They compare books to trees and their root systems, and also...
Autistic Culture Online-Joyce Davidson
SUMMARY- Autistic Culture Online by Joyce Davidson gives non-autistic people a better idea of how people on the Autistic Spectrum (AS) communicate and how the Internet has benefited its members. She uses autobiographies as examples to help the reader understand the life of an AS person. Davidson uses these examples to defend her idea that being autistic is a way of life that can be compared to any other minority group, rather than a disability (795). Like any other minority group, AS people...
Thursday
"The Search Party: Google squares off with its Capitol Hill critics" - Ken Auletta
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"The Search Party: Google squares off with its Capitol Hill critics" is an article by Ken Auletta, published in early 2008 in The New Yorker. In this article, Auletta discusses Google's new presence in the political arena to an audience curious about Google's growing influence. Although Google...
Monday
The Hacker Manifesto
Summary
The Hacker Manifesto is a piece written by Adam L. Beberg, who's information can be found by clicking on the small icon at the bottom of the manifesto. an example of our old topic of hypertext. This piece attempts to explain what a hacker really is by providing definitions of a hacker through hypertext (the word 'hacker'). Beberg enlightens the world, so to speak, on the mindset of a hacker, and how society has come to look down upon such people. Beberg seems to think that the world is quite...
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