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Archive for June, 2010

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Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Sure, you can get great classical literature at Project Gutenberg to download as e-books or even to convert to computer-generated ‘audiobooks’ (although you might not like listening to Ode to a Grecian Urn as interpreted orally by a text-to-voice software program). You can also download real audiofiles (mp3’s, wav’s, etc) from Librivox recordings. {This volunteer-run […]

The rise of phatic communication - social media and the emptiness of meaning by Alan Gerstle

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

When Roman Jackobsen identified one of the functions of language as the phatic function, it’s doubtful that he ever imagined that social media would create an environment where people communicate solely for the purpose of communicating.  Bereft of content, or riddled with cliches that render so-called information “redundancy” as Bateson would say, had turned Americans […]