Sorry teens, olds are slowly taking over Snapchat The Next Web by Natt Garun Move over, teens. Your parents, aunts, and uncles are getting in on the Snapchat action. According to the Wall Street Journal, 14 percent of US smartphone users aged 35 and above use Snapchat, up from 2 percent three years ago. Hacker Lexicon: What Are … Read more
Big data meets politics EurActiv.com by Davide Patteri Politicians across Europe often look suspiciously at the “big data” revolution as a trend imported from the US, which encroaches on their privacy. Europe’s rude awakening to big data politics EurActiv.com by Frédéric Simon To many in the Brussels bubble, the big data revolution came as a rude awakening, … Read more
British Library releases over a million public domain images Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder The British Library uploaded over one million scanned images to Flickr, designating them as public domain for all to share and use. Quartz has an article about the project. Five American Authors Make the Longlist for 2015 Man Booker Prize Writerswrite.com’s Writer’s Blog … Read more
Boas and the Monolingualism of the Other Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology In my last post on Bauman and Briggs Voices of Modernity I explored their argument that Boas’s notion of culture makes it seem like a prison house from which only the trained anthropologist is capable of escaping. In doing so, however, I … Read more
Breastfeeding in public: what is and what is not ?appropriate? I just read about a discrimination case in the San Diego area in which author/educator Rachel Rainbolt was told by her child?s homeschool teacher that breastfeeding was ?inappropriate? behavior during weekly meetings. Read more about this case on her site. First of all, this sort … Read more