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Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
the web, of course) a study conducted by some very clever researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
While Mr. Goldhaber said he wanted to remain hopeful, he was deeply concerned about whether the attention economy and a healthy democracy can coexist. Nuanced policy discussions, he said, will almost certainly get simplified into “meaningless slogans” in order to travel farther online, and politicians will continue to stake out more extreme... See more
nytimes.com • Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times
Craig Newmark of Craigslist Has a New Mission: Saving Democracy
Alexandra Tremayne-Pengellyobserver.com
In a world of perpetual data overload, [curation] implies information design and selectivity: the channeling, filtering, and organization into intelligible and usable information; the digging up of new or long ignored cultural corpora. Most of these corpora are simply sitting in storage: less than 1% of the Smithsonian Institution’s permanent... See more
Todd Presner • The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
Hollis Robbins: Most people focus on the vast reserves of content now available online, but few people ask: “Is this a good teacher?”