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Structuring structurations

Has anybody else noticed this?
Go to the Google homepage. Type a letter in the box. A list of suggestions or recommended searches pops up. This list is based on other people’s searches as well as your own personal history of searches.
Type “M”. I get the following list: Myspace, mapquest, msn, maps, mapquest driving directions, macys. […]

Objectivity, subjectivity, and journalism

I just found out about Eric Alterman’s fairly recent article in The New Yorker, “Out of print: The death and life of the American newspaper” (March 31, 2008), in which Alterman expertly lays out the centuries-long debate over the value of “objective” journalism for American democracy.
It’s a great article, and a fantastically clear explication of […]

Social surplus and the physics of participation

Check out this post by Mel Blake. It’s definitely interesting. Here’s an excerpt:

This is something that people in the media world don’t understand. Media in the 20th century was run as a single race–consumption. How much can we produce? How much can you consume? Can we produce more and […]