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Author Archives: Andrew Battista
The Epistemological Quagmire of Wikipedia
I have never edited a Wikipedia article before, and after doing this once, I quickly realized that it’s a bad task for people who already have OCD tendencies to take up. Clearly, this should not be a hobby of mine. … Continue reading
Posted in Creation Submissions
Tagged art, Dutch Golden Age, editing, information, Ruisdael, wikipedia
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Some Thoughts on Curation
Greetings all! I decided to dust off this old post from a previous course on curation to accompany our “readings” (actually listenings this week). We are listening to two radio/podcast clips: one from On The Media, and the other from NPR. You can … Continue reading
Posted in Discussion
Tagged buzzfeed, culture, curation, internet, On the Media, reading
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Q & A on Twitter with Jimmy Young
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Posted in Q & A
Tagged activism, feminism, information, Jimmy Young, Malcolm Gladwell, Michelle Goldberg, social media, social work, Twitter
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Corporations and Media
Last year the media and business world became alarmed with Jeff Bezos, the owner and founder of Amazon.com, purchased The Washington Post with money from his own pocket. Even though the Post is not directly an Amazon property, the slippage between Bezos’s personal and … Continue reading
Posted in Discussion
Tagged Amazon, Bob Dylan, control, corporations, Jeff Bezos, media
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Honors Event
Come visit the opening reception of the Language of Comics. This is an interesting presentation of comics as a visual art and cultural medium. Hope to see you all there!
How Do We Fit In?
The two articles we are covering for this week seem to agree with each other, even though they come from publications that are known to be in direct ideological opposition to one another. Poor education is more a product of … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
Tagged Alabama, bus, education, equality, Hoover, poverty, segregation
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Honors Newsletter
In case you haven’t seen it already, the first edition of the Honors Program newsletter has been released. It included news from the program and a list of classes coming up this summer and fall.