Picture Pluperfect
...It is easy to mistake what we do online as centrally about exposure and transparent exhibitionism. The explosive popularity of Pinterest — a social network based around collecting and...
Sunday Reading
...average of more than 7000. With rapidly developing innovation in online course delivery models, the internet's public institutions have a unique opportunity to meet critical demands by providing students with...
Sunday Reading
...MOOC any more than I oppose online classes, or three-hundred-person-lectures, or Wikipedia" "the way that the Harlem Shake meme seems perfectly designed for the workplace" "Everybody in the industry wants...
A moment of dreaming about higher education
...actually credit a course completion certificate from an online course, but we’re not in that world. In the world we actually live in, the difference between “real” and “online” courses...
Serf Boards
...money online using a service called Amazon Mechanical Turk, or “MTurk” as it’s colloquially known. MTurk was started in 2005 by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and director of Amazon Web...
Against TED
...events, focusing mostly but not exclusively on technology. TED has posted more than 1,100 videos of the talks online. By my count, 89 of them have achieved more than one...
"Art"
...Abrams in “Flatland;” it was arguably ever thus, but in a post-Internet economy in which art is primarily viewed onscreen and online, new strategies are both possible and necessary. The...
Model Behavior
...just how this goes: You dress for the office, you mold your online and offline persona to reflect well on the company, and even out of office hours, your “performance”...
Meritocracy and measurement myths
...to "express ourselves" but we end up being willing to express whatever is necessary to get measurable increases in online impact. The possibility and plausiblity of a real self becomes...
Incalculable Loss
...primary value of this online activity, from the point of view of security operations, is that it provides the norm for the data set probed by algorithms, testing and manipulating...
Eine kleine Paranoia
Crisis exposes the limits of paranoia as a defense mechanism
Catastrophe Capitalism: An Interview with Peer Illner
The response to state austerity must go beyond absorbing its outsourced labor
Gentle Protests: An Interview with Andreas Malm
It might be necessary to consider escalating
In the Wake of An Erosion
...stake, here, is the notion that blackness is a general force of fugitivity that racialization in general, and the more specific instantiation of the color line, exacerbate and focus without...
Sunday Reading, July 2, 2023
...online just before Christmas last year. In a column helpfully labeled “Context,” the authors explained why “rule of thumb” should be nixed from readers’ usage. “Although no written record exists...
At the Tip of the Javelin
Sport, Capital, and the Far Right