In the Sound Factory episode of MTV’s True Life a Long Island bartender wanted to become a Manhattan bartender as his first step towards …

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Today I attended two interesting media policy talks. The first was by Sarah Deutsch of Verizon discussing the legal cases against them for (rightfully) withholding …

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In a class yesterday, someone pulled a “that’s basic Kuhn” on me. Granted, I prefaced my first comment to the class in a somewhat …

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If we do live in a small world (6-degress of seperation), and the government is watching everything we do (Total Information Awareness), they might note …

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In my socialization class we’ve been considering the role of class, race, and gender in reproducing social structures, including those that aren’t as …

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Frank and Cooks’ The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us first introduced me to …

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In 1984 Umberto Eco, a semiotician and author of the popular book and film Name of the Rose, wrote an essay entitled A Guide to …

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Elsewhere, in the 2nd of a 3 part essay on propaganda and the copyright, I discussed the myth and history of copyright as “property”, and …

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This morning I was talking with my friend Nora about a conversation over style and culture in a recent Mark Crispin Miller class. As presented …

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This month’s Scientific America has an article by Charles H. Bennett, Ming Li and Bin Ma examining the evolution of 33 chain letters using …

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