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lmfedor 27-Sep-2009
bodies in revolt. link »
Tattooed women complicate recent body theory by staging an aesthetic revolution in "feminine" beauty. link »
elements of participant observation, oral history, archival research, and the use of secondary sources in order to trace the motives of, and cultural responses to, tattooed women. link »
the meaning of tattoos for women, and the concomitant authority over women's bodies, has been challenged link »
I will show how aspects of what I am calling monster beauty have developed. link »
we read the risks women have taken in becoming tattooed in terms of a revolutionary aesthetic for women. link »
Tattooed women register on many people's radar screens for the first time either as circus side-show acts, "the tattooed lady," hippies, prostitutes, or "biker chicks." link »
tattoos on women produce anxieties of misrecognition. link »
The written body may only speak from a patriarchal script that tries to limit women's voices and bodies to supporting roles and scenery link »
on a woman's body any tattoo becomes the symbol of bodily excess. link »
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othering inscriptions. link »
deliberately transform themselves through and against the cultural imaginary of what their transformations mean. link »
tattoos in American culture are not "normal." link »
revolutionary feminist aesthetic link »
Kathy Davis in regard to plastic surgery (1995, 1997 link »
Susan Bordo in regard to dieting and weight control (1993, 1997); Anne Balsamo in regard to body building (1996); and Naomi Wolf in regard to cosmetics (1991) link »
By tracing the "primitive" excitement of tattooed society women and the "criminal" agency of tattooed working-class women to the ambiguous stages of freak shows and tattoo contests, I believe we can make some sense of the impulse toward bodily transformation that runs counter to cultural acceptability. link »
tattoo provides one access point for revolutionary aesthetics for women. link »
I want to encourage the development of a tattoo aesthetic for women as a way to configure radical difference in rewarding, self-confirming ways. link »
Mifflin attempts to chronicle women's interest in tattooing along a time line coincident to feminist successes, with surges in the 1880s, 1920s, and the 1970s. link »
implies that tattoos may be read in some simple and transcendent manner, missing their radical undecidibility and the complexity of introjection link »
Tattoos can be as inexplicable to the selves who wear them as they are to their viewers. link »
Introjection opens a mediating site between one's psychic interior and cultural exterior. One site of introjection is the tattoo. link »
Women's tattooed bodies have presented a dilemma for a culture bent on women's silence; their bodies have been read as criminal trespasses into the masculine, their inky digressions a secret language stolen from men. link »
"accused of being a person of previous sexual experience--because of her tattoo" link »
the connection between tattooing and sex, in which tattooing is deemed a sexual act, is staunchly refuted by men when they tattoo each other, while considered obvious when the tattooed body is female. link »
The idea that one could buy permanent beauty became instantly attractive, link »
players in power cast the female body as virtually uninhabited, a shell of skin desiring only to be desirable, to be raped, to have permanent beauty mysteriously drawn upon it. link »
a drama about a woman whose vitality is only explicable through her subversion of social boundaries. link »
Van Vechten's The Tattooed Countess link »
More broadly, tattooed women had to fashion responses to the impact of Cesare Lombroso, one of the first "criminal anthropologists" who, in the 1880s, was an outspoken critic of tattoos. link »
concluded that tattooed people were "instinctive criminals," something which they demonstrated by tapping into this "most characteristic trait of primitive man" link »
more accurate to say that during these early years women were playing with the limits of women's social respectability. link »
he tattooed woman and the protester are both read as excessively sexual while the pageant contestants on center stage operate within acceptable sexual parameters. link »
marked difference between the female and male gaze link »
On stage this entanglement of intentions and bodily ownership plays out in the tattoo contest: a mutant progeny, one part beauty contest, one part freak show. link »
s cary, hyper-sexualized, freaky, threatening, excessive, and slippery to read, in other words monstrous. link »
he history of tattooed women as freaks provides a touchstone for many tattooed women in the West. link »
by speaking one's bodily ownership, tattooed women risk further reinscription by the Others who are troubled by their tattoos. link »
www.iupress.indiana.edu/
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lmfedor 31-Jul-2009
How do you harness the audience's knowledge and participation without the forums devolving into a messy online brawl that requires time-intensive moderation? link »
oncept of "news as a conversation," link »
"I think quality is more important than quantity," link »
"You have to create a space where the conversation is the kind of conversation that appeals to the people in your world. link »
www.pbs.org/
mediashift/ 2008/ 01/ traditional-media- · Original page -
lmfedor 31-Jul-2009
“We’ve evolved to interact with the world,” link »
They interacted with language tools in the same way they might in a social-media environment — by their own free will and with high interaction, instead of just reading, watching or listening. link »
This is much like what people do when they’re updating their Twitter status, instant-messaging friends, or answering text messages and emails while they’re doing something else. Dr. Kuhl said this multitasking, where people are stimulating new patterns of sequential processing, could then reap the same benefits as bilingualism. link »
see mom, texting and instant-messaging a lot isn't a bad thing! hah. in all seriousness though, this is very interesting... link »
blogs.wsj.com/
digits/ 2009/ 07/ 30/ social-medias-eff · Original page -
lmfedor 31-Jul-2009
Social media exponentially increases your connections and contacts. According to Jobvite ’s Dan Finnigan, “Social networking is an enhanced, real-time version of networking. By getting involved in social media, you’ll learn about job opportunities you would never find offline.” link »
www.usnews.com/
blogs/ outside-voices-careers/ 2009/ · Original page -
lmfedor 31-Jul-2009
Digital technologies have fundamentally altered the nature and function of media in our society, reinventing age-old practices of public communication and at times circumventing traditional media and challenging its privileged role as gatekeepers of news and entertainment. link »
cup.columbia.edu/
book/ 978-0-231-14208-3/ media-in- · Original page -
lmfedor 31-Jul-2009
c ollege is out of reach financially. link »
But what if social media tools would allow the cost of an educat ion to drop nearly all the way down to zero? link »
quality education will always have costs involved link »
social media can drastically reduce much of the overhead involved with higher education — such as administrative costs and even the campus itself — and open source or reusable and adaptive learning materials can drive costs down even further. link »
“It’s not for everyone,” said Reshef at an education event earlier this year . “You need to know English, you need to have a computer… our assumption [is that the students will be from] the upper end of the lower class or the lower end of the middle class… it’s people who almost made it… who could have been at the university but missed their chance.” link »
OpenCourseWare doesn’t confer degrees, but it allows anyone to audit classes at some of the world’s most prestigious institutes of higher education for only the cost of bandwidth. link »
the average cost of textbooks and supplies for a college student attending a four-year college in the US is $1,077. link »
But what if textbooks were free? What if printed course materials were made open and available online at no charge? How would that change the game? link »
That’s because the nature of information is such that it can be created once at cost and distributed and consumed over and over again for free. link »
“Knowledge is, as the economists say, a non-rival good,” link »
Information goods lend themselves to being created, distributed and consumed on the web. It is not so different from music, or classified advertising, or news.” link »
So in the future, the cost of education might be free, or nearly free, which could just level the playing field. link »
mashable.com/
2009/ 07/ 24/ education-social-media/ · Original page -
lmfedor 16-Jul-2009
79% of American children now play computer or video games on a regular basis. Children between the ages of seven and 17 play for an average of eight hours a week. link »
Exposure to violent games increases physiological arousal. link »
Exposure to violent games increases aggressive thoughts. link »
Exposure to violent games increases aggressive emotions. link »
Exposure to violent games increases aggressive actions. link »
Exposure to violent games decreases positive prosocial (i.e., helping) actions. link »
1. Children are more likely to imitate the actions of a character with whom they identify. In violent video games the player is often required to take the point of view of the shooter or perpetrator. 2. Video games by their very nature require active participation rather than passive observation. 3. Repetition increases learning. Video games involve a great deal of repetition. If the games are violent, then the effect is a behavioral rehearsal for violent activity. 4. Rewards increase learning, and video games are based on a reward system. link »
culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/
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lmfedor 16-Jul-2009
About 90 percent of U.S. kids age s 8 to 16 play video games , and they spend about 13 hours a week doing so (more if you're a boy). link »
may make kids more aggressive in real life. link »
do children become more aggressive after playing video games or are aggressive kids more attracted to violent videos? link »
iolent video games do indeed cause aggressive behavior, link »
it's the context and goals of the violence," link »
playing games rated "M" for mature has become "normative behavior" for adolescents, especially boys link »
"The real impact is in shaping norms, shaping attitude. As those gradually shift, the differences start to show up in behavior. link »
www.cnn.com/
2008/ HEALTH/ family/ 11/ 03/ healthmag.vi · Original page -
lmfedor 10-Jul-2009
Could use less definitions and more argument. Until the final paragraph, it's not clear that citizen journalism will accomplish anything better than current journalism models.
And, even in the case of the Neda example, where is the followup? Citizen journalists may be particularly prone, as is the case in Iran, to government oppression. link »What ONGOING efforts are there -- ie CNNs ireporters. Is citizen journalism best modeled as random citizens gathering the news or as organized groups of citizens -- that is, what and how much organization of citizen journalism is required? link »
Citizen journalists might also fall prey to various economic pressures. link »
They may be more prone to gov oppression but without that video the world would have not seen her die. I don't think there are many mainstream Iranian reporters going out there and covering the violence as good as the citizen journalists are. link »
ugh. just wrote several comments that didn't save. let's try this again... link »
Yes...they "might." I would argue, however, that one of the fundamental advantages of citizen journalism is its relatively inexpensive nature. At times, one would need nothing more than a cell phone or public computer to be a citizen journalist. link »
I think organization is less important than frequency. In order to be effective, citizen journalists must have a variety of platforms and outlets to actively participate in the spreading of news coverage. link »
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2009/ 07/ 08/ citizen-journali · Original page
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