Comments for New Media and Society

Comment on case: One Laptop per Child by TARLETON GILLESPIE

TARLETON GILLESPIE — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:47:11 +0000

superb suggestion, Christina

Comment on on the topic of “improvements in online access and participation internationally” by Christina Croll

Christina Croll — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:54:20 +0000

Here is a great website that I came across which provides brief summaries and links to websites/organizations that address this particular broad issue (one of which is ‘One Laptop per Child’ which is specifically mentioned as an option for topic A in the paper):

http://www.biomedcentral.com/developingcountries/resources/

Comment on case: One Laptop per Child by Christina Croll

Christina Croll — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:39:40 +0000

I found that the three links provided here (Greenberg, Paul, Albanesius), although interesting, were more technologically-driven than socially. In other words–in writing my paper I have found myself thinking more about the societal, educational, etc., implications of the overall point of OLPC’s mission, so I have been looking for articles more relevant to that point of view/train of thought…here is an interesting article I found on some of the positive effects that were recently made by providing coomputers to children in Afghanistan.

http://blog.laptop.org/2010/03/09/olpc-provides-children-of-afghanistan-access-to-a-modern-education/

Comment on case: Demand Media by TARLETON GILLESPIE

TARLETON GILLESPIE — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:02:36 +0000

Great find, Stephanie, thanks. (You’ll notice that your TA, Josh Braun, presented two papers at that symposium!) We’re hoping that they’ll post the video of Kydd’s speech soon — if they put it up in time for this assignment, I’ll add it to this post.

Comment on case: Demand Media by Stephanie Holmes

Stephanie Holmes — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:12:14 +0000

An interesting article to look at from the International Symposium on online journalism… it is short and not very in-depth but gave me some direction…

http://online.journalism.utexas.edu/detail.php?story=305&year=2010

Comment on Collegetown’s Public Technological Fusion by Ashley Vernon

Ashley Vernon — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:26:49 +0000

^_^

Comment on 4chan for me! by Steven McGrew

Steven McGrew — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:49:39 +0000

The 4chan article was a Featured Article, which is why it’s relatively well-written.

Comment on What do you know? by The News Today | No Way Manz (Stephen Moseson)

The News Today | No Way Manz (Stephen Moseson) — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:55:46 +0000

[...] agree with Rachel Derman that college students today are “more informed about the topics they are interested in and [...]

Comment on Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here? by Cullen Harwood

Cullen Harwood — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:19:02 +0000

Love the title of this post…also can be spotted on the door of the strip club in Boondock Saints

Comment on Week 6 Blog assignment: a close reading of Turow’s take on 21stC advertising by Will Gunn

Will Gunn — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:03:35 +0000

An interesting article: http://weburbanist.com/2010/03/06/clean-city-sao-paulo-scrubbed-of-outdoor-ads/

It was mentioned that one possibility here would just be to ban all ads, and that’s just what they did.