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Small Controlled Bursts Of Boredom: A Cure For Contemporary Click-Frenzies?
“The things people do out of sheer boredom! They study out of boredom; they pray out of boredom; they fall in love, get married and reproduce out of boredom; in the end they die out of boredom.” It was the German author Georg Büchner who put these words into the mouth of his protagonist in the comedy Leonce and Lena written…
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Has Content Curation Become A New Creativity For The Masses?
When I first heard the term “digital content curation” I thought of Picasso-peddling online arts merchants, vernissages on Facebook and high heeled iPhone users staggering through Italian designer boutiques. But what does it really mean? Traditionally, the term curator refereed to a person who selects, manages and collects works of art or (cultural artifacts of any…
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3 Things To Do Instead Of Facebooking
To those who’ve been reading this blog for a while, it will not come as a surprise that my relationship to Mr. Zuckerberg’s all-seing Social Network is… well… complicated. I haven’t yet deleted (sorry, it’s not possible to delete one’s Facebook account, I meant of course “temporarily deactivated”) my Facebook account. The only reason I still…
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The Blue & White Blues or: How Facebook Protects Your Content From Yourself
Recently, I had an interesting talk with my mother who fervently refuses to be pulled into the fangs of the Social Network. She said something to the effect of: “Well, you see I’m not sitting in front of the screen all day long, I do understand that people who are working with computers will often quickly…
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How To Stand Out to Capture & Hold Students’ Attention
Capturing a person’s attention is hard to do in this day and age. Between TV, the Internet, advertisements, politics, world hunger, animal rights, general plight and even what to have for dinner, our attention is in a constant state of flux. So, how do you go about capturing the attention of students? With everything going…
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The New Facebook: Your Life Story in Likes Or: The Perfect Surveillance Machine
It was Jeremy Bentham who invented the Panopticon, a circular building with a tower in its center that allows “an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) inmates of an institution without them being able to tell whether or not they are being watched.” (wiki) Although no true Panopticon has ever been built, examples in the…
