I’ll be presenting at the 10th annual Critical Themes in Media Studies conference at the New School on April 17th. As you’ll see, I’m working with ideas from Benedict Anderson, Jean Baudrillard, Arjun Appadurai, Bernadette Wegenstein (who is coincidentally our closing keynote speaker), Manfred Steger, and a few more like Maurice Agulhon and Pierre Nora [...]
Posted on April 4th, 2010 by DeepthiW
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I just don’t even know where to begin with how this will change modern life. Just watch and get ready for a glimpse of the future that you didn’t know was coming so very soon, but thanks to Pranav Mistry, has been developed as open source and ready to improve a lot of people’s lives [...]
Posted on November 27th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Yes, it is the rather pitiful truth that after swearing off doing mass amounts of free labor post two internships and countless other volunteer projects, the project that broke down my resolve to never again work for free was a labor conference. Every free moment I’ve had for the past month has been consumed by [...]
Posted on November 15th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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So much work is being done in the digital realm, from Facebook using members to translate pages for free, to Wikipedia’s volunteer reference work, to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program. Not to mention all the creative folk participating in contests for the off chance that their creation (usually based on hours and hours of work) will [...]
Posted on September 27th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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Funny things happen when you join your experiences to a group. I was at the New York Public Library‘s reference room, which is a stunning space and a lovely place to do research, even if you don’t need a book from their in-house collection. I took a snapshot on my cell phone and played with [...]
Posted on June 19th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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This whole tea party thing looks highly dangerous. Even though estimates of how many turned out for the tea party protests are relatively modest, it’s still a significant number, and the whole event could spiral into a much larger movement through media mishandling.
Posted on April 16th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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I started working with Hope To Action to redesign their blog called Women of Influence, and ended up helming a full site redesign from start to finish in about six weeks. Hope To Action’s new website serves as a full-service online community site supporting women’s grassroots efforts for climate protection. Check out the new site! [...]
Posted on March 12th, 2009 by DeepthiW
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I kind of hate Darwinism. I hate the fact that legions of scientists have decided that the best way to explain anything is to give it a biological drive in the mating process or survival process or mothering process, as if these are the only reasons why humans or other animals do anything. There’s an [...]
Posted on December 21st, 2008 by DeepthiW
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With the release of Malcolm Gladwell’s third book, Outliers, and accompanying public tour, it seems everyone wants a piece or a punch. We’ve got The dumb, dumb world of Malcolm Gladwell: A guru for the brain dead, Malcolm Gladwell’s Secrets of Success, and the most considered and thoughtful of the lot (even if the name [...]
Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by DeepthiW
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The top 11 languages on the Internet in descending order are: English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, German, French, Portugese, Korean, Italian, Arabic, and Russian. (source is apparently Nat’l Geographic, flag image is from www.theworldflag.org)
Posted on December 1st, 2008 by DeepthiW
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