Culture UP

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

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

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