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Information Materialism: Scholastic Book Orders and the Impulse to Buy
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By Derek Attig on Aug 7th, 2011
  1. Arts & Humanities
  2. HASTAC Scholars
  3. K-12 Learning
  4. Reading & Writing
  5. Youth
  6. Culture
  1. book retail
  2. capitalism
  3. consumerism
  4. print

 

 

Hillary Buckholtz, over at Urlesque, has posted a bunch of images of book order forms from Scholastic and...
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Everything New Is Old Again: Two Critiques of Cyber-Optimism
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By Gerry Canavan on Mar 10th, 2011
  1. Academia
  1. advertising
  2. capitalism
  3. Clay Shirky
  4. copyright
  5. criticism
  6. digital enclosure
  7. Facebook
  8. flexible accumulation
  9. Google
  10. internet
  11. John Bellamy Foster
  12. labor
  13. Marx
  14. net neutrality
  15. new media
  16. politics
  17. Robert W. McChesney
  18. theory
  19. twitter
  20. Utopia
  21. wikipedia

Two pieces separately crossed my screen today that each offer provocative challenges to the abiding sense of optimism, even triumphalism, that...
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Blood from a Turnip; or, HarperCollins vs. Public Libraries
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By Derek Attig on Mar 4th, 2011
  1. Reading & Writing
  2. Community & Policy
  1. capitalism
  2. Commercial Publishing
  3. e-books
  4. print

Dumb, but also deeply disturbing: HarperCollins has found a new way to try and squeeze blood from a turnip (or money from chronically underfunded...
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report and comment on Newfield's "The Decline of the Anti-Commons" (11/22/10)
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By Gerry Canavan on Nov 23rd, 2010
  1. Academia
  2. Government & Politics
  3. Higher Education
  4. Legal, Licensing & Copyright
  5. Institutions & Organizations
  6. Community & Policy
  7. Culture
  1. academia
  2. capitalism
  3. christopher newfield
  4. Duke
  5. How the University Works
  6. innovation
  7. intellectual property
  8. patents
  9. politics
  10. the common
  11. Utopia

Earlier this evening Christopher Newfield gave a talk at Duke entitled "The Decline of the Anti-Commons: An English Professor among...
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Shell Oil and the Privatization of the University
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By Nick Knouf on Oct 21st, 2008
  1. Mixed & Augmented Reality
  2. Community & Policy
  1. capitalism
  2. data mining cyberinfrastructure research
  3. infrastructure
  4. privatization
  5. reality
  6. shell oil

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...
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The True Story of the Internet
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By Cathy Davidson on Apr 1st, 2008
  1. Internet & Web 2.0
  2. Open Source, Open Access & Open Web
  3. Community & Policy
  1. capitalism
  2. ideologies
  3. internet
  4. open access
  5. profit

Is the True Story of the Internet the idealistic open access"Information Wants to be Free" version of the W3C, Tim Berners-Lee, andthe most...
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