Shell Oil and the Privatization of the University
Submitted by nknouf on Oct 21, 2008, 05:39 PM
As I was walking around campus today I saw that Shell Oil was holding a recruiting event on the Engineering Quad, the "Shell Campus Pit Stop Challenge". (See images below.) Evidently this was designed as a game or entertainment, involving, in their words, a "fast-paced, pit-stop-style event w
Digital Youth and the Paradox of Digital Labor
Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Oct 02, 2008, 05:54 PM
The talk I gave at the Franklin Center on Wednesday October 1 is available on Duke's iTune's Channel. It is called "Digital Youth and the Paradox of Digital Labor: Do-It-Yourself or Do-It-For-Them." Here's the url: http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/new.duke.edu.1483972...
The talk I gave at the Franklin Center on Wednesday October 1 is available on Duke's iTune's Channel. It is called "Digital Youth and the Paradox of Digital Labor: Do-It-Yourself or Do-It-For-Them." Here's the url: http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/new.duke.edu.1483972...
The True Story of the Internet
Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Apr 01, 2008, 09:02 AM
Is the True Story of the Internet the idealistic open access "Information Wants to be Free" version of the W3C, Tim Berners-Lee, and the most creative digital youth today? Or is the True Story of the Internet the overnight success of twenty-two year old billionaires who turn all that user-generated content, all the information data-mined from social networking sites, and all those social graphs of interconnections (the social interconnections of Facebook friends graphed the world over) into a vc'd globally-extended business with new targeted forms of advertising, coercion, and (always) ever new and fancier toys--higher speed, better definition, more customizable, better looking, Kanye West/Daft Punk's harder, better, faster, stronger?
Is the True Story of the Internet the idealistic open access "Information Wants to be Free" version of the W3C, Tim Berners-Lee, and the most creative digital youth today? Or is the True Story of the Internet the overnight success of twenty-two year old billionaires who turn all that user-generated content, all the information data-mined from social networking sites, and all those social graphs of interconnections (the social interconnections of Facebook friends graphed the world over) into a vc'd globally-extended business with new targeted forms of advertising, coercion, and (always) ever new and fancier toys--higher speed, better definition, more customizable, better looking, Kanye West/Daft Punk's harder, better, faster, stronger?
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