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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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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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CFP: "Globalization, Utopia, Film" (ACLA March 31-April 3, 2011)
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By Gerry Canavan on Oct 15th, 2010
  1. Film, Video & Animation
  2. International & Global
  3. Social Networks & Social Media
  1. ACLA
  2. CFPs
  3. Conferences
  4. film
  5. globalization
  6. new media
  7. Utopia

I'm one of the organizers of the ACLA seminar below. Although the CFP doesn't mention new media due to space restrictions, we'd certainly be...
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Student Blogging
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By Gerry Canavan on Jan 14th, 2010
  1. Academia
  2. Internet & Web 2.0
  3. Social Networks & Social Media
  4. Pedagogy & Teaching
  5. Reading & Writing
  6. Culture
  1. blogging
  2. courses
  3. digitality
  4. internet
  5. pedagogy
  6. science fiction
  7. teaching
  8. Utopia

This semester I'll be teaching a Writing 20 here at Duke organized around Utopian science fiction from the latter half of the twentieth century:...
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