Posted: February 25th, 2009 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: delicious | No Comments »
Great blog post from Hyphen Magazine about whitewashing in the movies: white actors in yellowface, or roles that were originally Asian but now played by white actors.
Posted: February 11th, 2009 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: delicious | No Comments »
From superstar Beth Kolko
Good for intro classes
Posted: February 3rd, 2009 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: delicious | No Comments »
On social network overload
SFGate story.
Posted: January 27th, 2009 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: delicious | No Comments »
Good for those marathon dissertation sessions.
Posted: January 15th, 2009 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: delicious | No Comments »
Terrific collection of papers, news, data, websites, conferences etc. all about social capital. Edited by Italian economist Fabio Sabatini.
Posted: January 8th, 2009 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: delicious | No Comments »
"We used to call them know-it-alls, debbie downers, Trekkies, or just plain douchebags."
Posted: January 6th, 2009 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: delicious | No Comments »
Syllabus about SV history.
Combined archive of images, letters, recordings, etc. from SV's history.
Note on Annalee Saxenian's book/ethnography of SV.
Must-read, lit nerds on Twitter.
Posted: November 23rd, 2008 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: delicious | No Comments »
Whitepaper on Islam, Identity & Advertising, interviews w/ the author and followups.
Jezebel's take on this macabre microcelebrity.
Posted: November 22nd, 2008 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: delicious | No Comments »
Anita Elberse crunches the data to argue against the popular business book.
This is an excellent example of new media tools reinforcing "traditional" forms of social status for women.
Social meter scans the major social websites to analyze a webpage's social popularity. Currently we scan Del.icio.us, Digg, Furl, Google, Jots, Linkroll, Netscape, Reddit, Shadows, Spurl, Technorati, and Yahoo My Web.
Zuckerberg interview.
Features Catharine Mackinnon and Tyler Cowen. I probably won't be in NYC then…
