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TV, the Tyrant – Travelogue-1
TV, the Tyrant Three ways in which the TV affects you even if you switch if off “They tell me that they have an ideal in their mind about what the normal person is,” psychiatrist Paul McHugh says in...
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Trust me not! – Post 01 Travelogue 2
Trust me not A quest for truth on the wings of lies “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes,” Mark Twain said nearly a hundred years before the world wide...
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Do we verify the facts we read online?
John F Kennedy said he was a jelly doughnut, you can cook an egg using your cellphone, and penis-shrinking sorcerers roam the streets of West Africa, if we believe in everything we read online. Thirty...
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What Lies Ahead
[The images below refer to the recent instances of irresponsible spreading of unverified information on each of the following platforms. I did not initiate or spread any of them.] F a c e b o o k...
View ArticleReading Summaries for Week 4
Free culture Web 2.0 changes the dynamics of communication by allowing what was once passive audience to participate, remix and share content, Lawrence Lessig says in his presentation. This...
View ArticleLie Another Day
“Must you touch everything?” a scared Q asked James Bond in the movie Die Another Day. And that is the question I have been asking myself. The scope of my research unfolded itself during these two...
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All About Trust – Concluding Post for Travelogue 2
Trust leaves us vulnerable, but without it there is no love, no joy, no sharing and no Web 2.0. While we wait for the dust to settle down in this new public sphere, are we guilty of blind trust? How...
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Cyber Sex and Booty Calls
So I wasn’t in the mood to go out tonight and decided to stay in and usually it’s not such a bad thing but for some reason now I’m feeling lonely =( Anyone care to chat? I won’t respond to messages...
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No Strings Attached – Does Web 2.0 Aid Sexual Liberation?
In the modern society, norms in courtship rituals are defined by the media. For those who are not ideal consumers – such as obese teens who do not fit mass-produced clothing, isolated individuals who...
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Love in the time of Craigslist
“So what’s the secret to getting some tail on CL?” asks a user posting in the ‘w4m’ category of the ‘Casual Encounters’ section of Craigslist peronals. That is the precise question I intend to find an...
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Do you wanna date my avatar?
In 1995, Annabelle Chong was promised $12,500 for having sex with 80 men for a film. She was never paid. “The act itself took place between me and these guys, who were doing it for free. Why should I...
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Cyborgasms – Concluding Travelogue 3
“The fashionable ideology that ‘artificial’ lacks the inherent goodness of ‘natural’ is an appealing, but hopelessly simplistic notion of the intellectually chic. Artifice is the result of a deliberate...
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View ArticleThe You in Youtube – Conclusion for Travelogue 4
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View ArticleCyborgasms – Sex and the Internet
In what ways have developments in new media changed the landscape that we may call the playground of sex, pornography and gender roles? Required Readings: The History of Sexuality – An Introduction...
View ArticleThis week’s readings – Nationalism, Postnationalism and Digital Power
[Frost] Internet Galaxy Meets Postnational Constellation Being a nation is about being on the same page. Nationalism developed, according to Benedict Anderson, in the 18th century when print media...
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