They are not drawn to structured programming; their work at the computer is marked by a desire to play with the elements of the program, to move them around almost as though they were material elements -- the words in a sentence, the notes on a keyboard, the elements of a collage.
Lisa and Robin using this different style is like using an artistic view of computing with exploration of "material elements."
the computer holds the promise of catalyzing change, not only within computation but in our culture at large.
Is this because of how accessible it is to others? This may hold true more than ever now because of the social media platforms we've been given.
The computer has a theoretical vocation: to bring the philosophical down to earth.4
Interesting way to view the impact of computers.
it has the ability to make the abstract concrete
Computers ability to change commonality is applicable to anyone.
One reason for this is that there haven’t been people of color in leadership roles at stock photography companies. We’re having these conversations now
It is shocking to me that although those with leadership roles in the stock photography companies are not of color, still don't see that the world isn't ONE color. It's also not beneficial for them as a company to only appeal to one set of people.
When does our submission to measurement hit against something we must protect as “ours”?
When we are no longer able to evaluate situations for ourselves
shifts in our communication infrastructures have enabled large-scale attempts to reshape the very possibilities of social order in the interests of market functioning and commercial exploitation.
Everything we do online is basically a business opportunity
The answer is that surveillance capitalism threatens an aspect of our freedom so basic that we are not used to defending it.
it's hard to think of ways to that anyway because websites and emails are all owned by someone and we use these tools in order to function in a society heavily influenced by technology.
An ephemeral platform like the Internet — though it may feel cathartic — is not always terribly productive.
Understandable considering educating can only do so much. It takes action to change.
140 characters isn’t enough to express a lifetime of experiences
Maybe a different social media platform could prove to be more successful? Tumblr for example, doesn't restrict your words and even lets you add as many pictures as ya want.
Crazy that hashtags are seriously that relevant to our generation. It takes a hashtag to care.
It helps you understand what you think better. And I appreciate that about Twitter. It's a cacophony of voices. Even when you don't agree, you at least understand different perspectives. The medium itself sets that up.
Differing opinions is a great way to understand perspectives from people who come from different demographics.
that's a different way of empowering people.
This more recently has been happening in social media because people now have been recording brutality; family members are recording the literal act of cops killing unarmed men. I just recently saw a video of a woman calling the cops on a cop who pulled her over and they had the recording of her calling the cops because she felt attacked, and a camera in the shopping center was able to record it all. It escalated from a conversation to her being slammed against the cop car and you can hear her screaming while seeing everything. This video went viral and is evidence that can be used against that cop, while also showing what a simple traffic stop can be turned into.
Ferguson exists in a tradition of protest. But what is different about Ferguson, or what is important about Ferguson, is that the movement began with regular people.
Maybe this is what is the main difference/benefit of having social media.. not only fact that it's instant, but that anyone can promote issues.
The role has a hell of a lot of business value.
It's hard for people to realize the amount of effort involved with social media but overall it can really make or break a company because of the possible positive outcomes.
We can’t begin to move forward in any way if we aren’t having informed conversations about the impacts of white supremacy, cishetpatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, and settler colonialism on the lives of Black people, as well as Indigenous peoples, killed by police.
Hashtags are a way of educating in order to move forward.
The death of Mike Brown was not the first nor will it be the last life claimed by police brutality. The uprising in Ferguson was one of the many boiling points we’ve seen Black communities arrive at after enduring endless violence from police vigilante acts. But now that race is being seen as a hot topic in the media, people from everywhere are weighing in.
This has come to be true. Every day I see a new victim but hashtaging these names only brings awareness to the problem and obviously has not solved anything because more names are being added to the list.
though we are conditioned to believe that whiteness is the norm even in outer space
This relates back to Nalo Hopkinson's interview and how she has personally experienced and witnessed the backlash towards people of color in the science fiction community.
So when I watched the film for the second time, I did so imagining that all the stormtroopers were black. It not only made sense, it made the Force Awakens an even more intriguing and politically engaging movie. As white, Latin and black actors respectively,
This is a great way to interpret things and gives a different perspective
hat I would hopewill begin to hap-pen in SF/F/H is that, in the same way that women writers and readers areclaiming a place in the fantastical genres, there will begin to be morediverse expressions of people’s lived experiences of race, culture, class,sexuality, social structures, and gender, and that more of those expres-sions will begin to come from outside the United States.
I hope so too!
We chose the name Carl Brandon partly in tribute to Terryfor raising the issue of race in sci-fi fandom.
I love this! Terry creating Carl Brandon because of the comment that people of color have no place in the science fiction community.
I don’t want our value to be in how uncommon weare. That’s a good strategy for keeping us on the outside and our numberslimited. I’d like to see people of color represented in strength at all levels ofthe industry: more editors, more publishers, more design people, moremarketing people, more graphic novelists, more comic book artists. I’d likeit to become perfectly commonplace that the instructors at spec-fic writ-ing workshops are 30 to 50 percent people of color (and representationjust as strong of working-class writers, queer writers, disabled writers,older writers, non-American writers; luckily, all these things overlap)
The fact that a certain genre written by people of color can be looked down upon because it has a possibility of becoming too common is sad. Considering what books are put out now a days, shouldn't white authors be considered "too common?"
he dialect I use most in my writing is Trinidadian, because that’swhat I speak the most handily. I can do a smattering of Jamaican, espe-cially if I consult with my mother and grandmother, and I can throw in aword or two of Guyanese. Midnight Robberblends all three
It's very unique that she blends a multitude of languages within her writing.
However, in fantastical fiction, I can directly manipulate the meta-phorical structure of the story.
This is probably her favorite thing about writing in fantastical fiction
Not that I minded the review, which was positive in its own way,but I’m still struck sometimes by the difference between what I think I’vewritten and what readers get from the text, and sometimes I’d like toknow more.
I would wonder too what people interpret out of my work especially because her writing is fictional so it can be interpreted in different ways.
I wanted stories that transcended the quotidian “lifesucks and then you die.” Call it escapism,
I like her attitude towards keeping things real in a way. And this idea of "escapism," is cool because it's a new way of getting lost inside a book, story, or narrative. (As opposed to folk or fairy tails.) She wants stories that are more applicable to reality.
As to my definitionof spec-fic, I describe it as a set of literatures that examine the effects onhumans and human societies of the fact that we are toolmakers.
Our society has created many inventions and enhancements that are always continuing to be improved. She says that we are "toolmakers" in that way.
putting control of the grade firmly in students’ hands.
This is great but also makes me worried because now its more on my own shoulders. I mean I understand that I am responsible for my own learning experience, but how accountable should teachers be? Just a thought..
Here is an even simpler system with only four bundles of
It's a great idea because it's easier on both the student and the teacher. We would know exactly what we need to do in order to receive our desired grade.
. Then, at the end of the course, you can give the student(s) with the most tokens something desirable -- perhaps the chance to skip the final exam or a gift certificate for a pizza.
I remember when I was in elementary school we did a token system for a bit and I think it not only taught me the value of money (you know that you have to work for it) but encouraged me to work a little harder.
How do we resist this? (And resist this, I contend, we must.)
Rely less on technology and the readiness of it all and focus on going back to the basics, for tangible items such as CDS, DVDS, and printed pictures. This way you can be able to pass such things down.
Our content and our data, shared publicly, become theirs to profit from.
i've never thought about it this way but very true. It's weird to think that something we do for fun is really just being exploited in a way.
the student is.
It's great to give more control to the students.
something that they themselves can reflect upon, not simply grades and assignments that are locked away in a proprietary system controlled by the school.
This is an interesting way of looking at things that I agree about; especially because throughout most of our schooling careers, we're rewarded for good grades solely instead of something that was self motivated.