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Culture UP

A sounding board for understanding, relating to, dealing with, affiliating, rejecting, emerging, and developing one's own sense of self within a culture. From the sympathetic to the scathing, all viewpoints welcome.

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Written by DeeBlackthorne on
Original Entry: http://brainsplitter.blogspot.com/2008/05/dear-douggy.html Daniel Chandler's article "Personal Home Pages and the Construction of Identities on the Web" has this to say about how such audiovisual content belies an ever increasing dynamism regarding how people manage their lives: More fundamentally, however, web pages are much more dynamic than print.  An oft-mentioned feature of this is that they can be linked to each other in complex ways using hypertext, in contrast to what some have seen as the linear nature of print (Snyder 1996). But perhaps most dramatically personal home pages have none of the fixity of print (I came across one British home page entitled ... Read Full Story
 
Written by DeeBlackthorne on
I don't know if it's a good idea or a bad idea that CNN presidential nomination coverage plays in the background while I'm waiting tables.  Especially on nights that are relatively slow, I'll camp out by the flat screen and watch the pundits and the interviews and coverage.  One of the work managers is close to me in age and pretty sharp, so we'll have discussions. Another server sat down.  "What do you want to be when you grow up?" the manager asked.  He replied, something to the effect of practicing law, thinking he has a way with words, and -- you know, probably ... Read Full Story
 
Written by DeeBlackthorne on
Thank you for visiting my new wikizine, Culture UP! (They wouldn't give me the exclamation point.) I started a wikizine at the recommendation of a friend on here.  Culture matters to me.  I study cultural phenomenon as an academic, but my interest in culture has become very personal over the past few years.  I belong to two of them -- depending on how you slice it.  I was born an American by circumstance, but I don't feel like one most of the time.  I'm not jingoistic; sometimes, patriotic.  Not proud.  Lucky, maybe.  I'm an African-American, though to say that generations back actually lived there ... Read Full Story
 
O’Connell Insurance Group Inc. of Boston named Keith O’Connell president and CEO. He previously served as executive vice president for seven years. South Shore Hospital of South Weymouth appointed Dr. John Stevenson senior vice president of medical ...  
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The Public Service Commission is asking that people complete a Broadband Customer Survey available on its Web site, http://psc.wi.gov. The results will be used to identify where the needs are greatest. The PSC noted that the recently enacted federal ...  
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But when you come here, you realize that there’s so many people helping out and everyone’s just going to persevere and get it done no matter what needs to be done.” But if people in Fargo were optimistic they were also realistic, and the reality of ...  
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(WebMD) Social drinking seems to impair older people more than their younger drinking buddies. Also, older people are less likely to realize how the alcohol is affecting them, according to a new study. The study, published in The Journal of Studies on ...  
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A man suspected of fatally shooting seven people in southeastern Alabama has been killed, FOX News has confirmed with police. Some local media reports as many as 10 people were killed. Police told FOX News that the rampage started at about 4:05 pm CDT. ...  
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"North Korea made its point clear: Inter-Korean economic cooperation is directly linked to politics, and South Korea and the US are causing the trouble," he told the Yonhap news agency. "They are reminding South Koreans of the benefits of peace they ...  
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"The courts have done the preparation work and will accept the compensation cases at any time," Shen said Monday in an online interview with the official People's Daily newspaper. In China's legal system, the first step in a lawsuit is for a court to ...  
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That's what prompted people to come out and speak on Sucart's behalf. It is amazing how many people within the game have little regard for such a talented player. Why A-Rod would out his cousin as he did, only he knows. Just as A-Rod has his admirers ...  
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A school janitor was arrested in what investigators believe is a crime ring in the thefts of purses, wallets and cell phones from employees at nine public schools in Ascension and East Baton Rouge parishes. A school janitor was arrested in what ...  
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By Jeff Patterson -- jpatterson@wfla.com Dickson thinks Barry was attacked by a coyote. She had just gotten home after 7:30 am after taking her son to school and noticed Barry was not running around her yard as usual. After she called his name, ...  
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