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How Will Twitter’s Self-Censorship Play Out?

  • by Paul Roadarmel
  • on 2012/02/14
  • in Blog

In late January, Twitter announced its ability to reactively censor itself in a more narrow and specific manner. Many people are demonizing Twitter for even considering censoring itself.

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A Giant Stumbles

  • by Paul Roadarmel
  • on 2012/02/14
  • in Blog

Last Thursday, Eastman Kodak announced it was exiting the digital camera business. What happened to the company that brought photography to the masses?

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CHAT Festival: A Celebration of the Extension of Senses

  • by Shanna Dixon
  • on 2012/02/13
  • in Blog, Techoculture

Duke University CHAT Festival — Collaborations: Humanities, Art and Technology — showcased panel discussions, art displays and research projects that focused on the use of digital technologies as a means to express concepts that traditionally manifest themselves through the archaic definition of the arts.

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The “Burning Man” and Virtual Reality

  • by Nic Bell
  • on 2012/02/11
  • in Review, Techoculture

In an article entitled “Burning Man”, published in the February 2012 issue of GQ magazine, Jay Kirk describes the reality of a veteran upon his return home from a tour of duty in Afghanistan.

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Digital Ownership: Who Owns Whom?

  • by Shanna Dixon
  • on 2012/02/06
  • in Note, Techoculture

Buying music on iTunes is a pain. It’s not that choosing music to purchase hurts. The pain is in choosing music outside of my well-worn path that’s worthy of my dough. I enjoy finding new music. But purchasing the wrong song or album means that I’m stuck with my bad decision.

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90 Days without Technology

  • by Natalie Norlock
  • on 2012/02/03
  • in Blog

Jake Reilly gave up his cell phone, emails, all social media, and even television for 90 days, titling his experiment “The Amish Project.”

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Image Tool detects Retouching

  • by Chanda Roderick
  • on 2012/02/01
  • in Blog

A new photograph analyzing tool used to detect image alterations could be the key to deconstructing the current standard of beauty represented in magazines.

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Distracted Driving Decelerates

  • by Allison L. Boutwell
  • on 2012/01/23
  • in Blog

Laws prohibit texting while driving, but CellControl helps execute this plan. It can limit texting, incoming calls, internet access and more while the phone is connected to the car.

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The Architecture of Destruction in “The Terminal Beach” and “The Machine Stops”

by Shanna Dixon

Shanna Dixon argues that J.G. Ballard’s “The Terminal Beach” and E.M Forster’s “The Machine Stops” illustrate attempts at reconciling inner-space and outer-space and maintain that science and technology will ultimately lead to humanity’s non-existence.

Relinquishing Control in “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” and “The Grand Inquisitor”

by Brandi Oates

Time and religion have always served as means by which humanity satisfies its preoccupation with order and purpose. However, in Ellison’s “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” and Dostoyevsky’s “The Grand Inquisitor,” humanity’s obsession with structure has forced it to become subservient to the elements that were intended for its own advancement.

The Artificiality of Human Emotion in Dick’s Androids

by William Lindberg

In the prophetic novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick projected into the future a vision of a world where the subtle differences distinguishing androids from the humans who created them disappear to a point where the protagonist, Rick Deckard, begins to discover difficulties in killing the androids.

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