OpenCUNY.org Roundtable on Fostering Student-Based Media @ CUNY IT Conference
12/2/11>>9:30AM-10:45AM>>John Jay College CUNY>>MORE INFO
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Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies
12/2/11>>9:30AM-10:45AM>>John Jay College CUNY>>MORE INFO
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12/1/11>>2:00-8:00PM>>CUNY Graduate Center>>MORE INFO
From the abstract: “This paper presents updated trends in teen employment and participation across multiple demographic characteristics, and argues that, in addition to immigration, occupational polarization in the U.S. adult labor market has resulted in increased competition for jobs that … Continue reading →
From British Foreign Secretary William Hague’s 10/18/2011 guest editorial in Spiegel : Web-based industry has already become a critical part of our economies. The UK’s industry is already worth £100 billion, accounting for 8% of our total GDP, and is … Continue reading →
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According to the report: “As a result of these divergent trends, in 2009 the typical household headed by the older adult had $170,494 in net worth, compared with just $3,662 for the typical household headed by the younger adult. People … Continue reading →
From the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA):
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From the article: “The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday finalized a landmark settlement with Google in which the company has agreed to be audited for its privacy practices for the next 20 years … The commission charged that Google … Continue reading →
From Sherry Turkle’s “The Second Self,” p21: … the computer is a metaphysical machine. Children too are provoked. The computer creates new occasions for thinking through the fundamental questions to which childhood must give a response, among them the question … Continue reading →
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From the article: “Young adults are the recession’s lost generation. In record numbers, they’re struggling to find work, shunning long-distance moves to live with mom and dad, delaying marriage and raising kids out of wedlock, if they’re becoming parents at … Continue reading →
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From the article: “By winning 8.9 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election in [Berlin], these political pirates surpassed — blew away, really — every expectation for what was supposed to be a fringe, one-issue party promoting Internet freedom. The … Continue reading →