Archive for the 'Social' Category
E(pherema)-Lit
2 Comments Published by Mark Marino October 4th, 2010 in Features, Software, Fictionality, Social.We went to an old friend’s wedding out in western New York, Niagara Falls to be exact. We hadn’t seen the bride, Mary Maloney, in, geez, ten years? So I thought, I should add her as a Facebook friend. Our friendship pre-dated the social networking madness phase, but like some hidden ancient city in […]
SOS Classroom: Crowdsourcing Education
1 Comment Published by Mark Marino July 18th, 2009 in Features, Off Topic, Social.At the end of the school year, LAUSD, the second largest school district in the U.S., canceled summer school for K-8 students. Reports estimate 225,000 students affected, but surely this is an understatement because every child is affected when children in their class have not received the instruction they need. This summer, my […]
Bunk Satirizes Wikis and Los Angeles Times
1 Comment Published by Mark Marino April 9th, 2008 in hyperfic, Features, Off Topic, Text Art, Publications, Social, Multi-Modal.The 10th anniversary issue of Bunk Magazine is online with a new issue, featuring:
Los Wikiless Timespedia
The premise: The Los Angeles Times, to save its flagging enterprise, has relaunched itself in an entirely wiki format as The Los Wikiless Timespedia.
LA Times Switches to All-Wiki Format in 11th-Hour Battle for Life
In a desperate attempt to stop the involuntary leakage of its readership, the slightly less-old gray lady has tried the Depends of new media, embracing a technology that almost spelt its d-e-a-t-h in bright blue hyperlinked Arial.
The Folksonomic Museum: National Museum of African American History and Culture
2 Comments Published by Mark Marino February 8th, 2008 in Features, Off Topic, News, Social.[Updated 2/9/2008, see Suggestion Box below]
Before one brick for the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture has been laid, its online instantiation is already being constructed by those who preserve and people that history. Surely, this is not the first museum to use a website to allow people to shape […]
A (Re)Vision of Students Today: Remixing Wesch
11 Comments Published by Mark Marino January 20th, 2008 in Features, Off Topic, Criticism, Education, Social.To mark Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, here is a new video (or a video response to Michael Wesch’s “A Vision of Students Today”)
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The video collaborates with Michael Wesch’s Kansas State students, who, according to the megapopular video, used Google Docs to collaboratively edit a document, essentially conducting a survey and, presumably, designing the video itself.
Wesch’s students’ video offers itself as a glimpse of today’s students. However, unlike Wesch’s even more famous Web 2.0 video, “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” which seemed to both capture and promote an image of technoculture, this video offers itself as an image of contemporary students (not “KSU Students Today” or “American Students Today”) without reflecting on its own particularity, its own demographics.