[Xmca-l] Re: Article for discussion: Facebook in Brazilian schools
Peg Griffin
Peg.Griffin@att.net
Fri Mar 16 12:36:30 PDT 2018
I think Serena (whose graphic it is) now goes to a Society of Friends high school. She has access to an enormously useful past for an activist to grow in!
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From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of mike cole
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 2:36 PM
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Article for discussion: Facebook in Brazilian schools
Whoa, that is a great graphic, Peg!
(like)!! :-)
mike
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:48 AM, Peg Griffin <Peg.Griffin@att.net> wrote:
> Here's a relevant link: http://badassteachers.blogspot.com/
> The Badass Teachers Association has existed for a few years now. This
> is a blog with several posts by teachers who experienced the March 14
> Walkouts in the US.
> The blog entries reflect a few different situations and institutions
> that the Badass Teachers and their students experience (note that the
> last blog entry extends from the Walkouts to Teacher Strikes and more).
>
> While I learned a lot from the account of the four movements in Brazil
> and plan to learn more, here's a bit of a wondering that I have:
> When I work with/for our young activists in the US, as time goes by, I
> almost always find there's something said about the young activists pasts.
> They have participated in movements where peers further along in some
> ways, and sometimes adults further along in some ways, collaborated.
> The young activists did what they could when they could and took in a
> "whole" event which in many ways they merely understood but marching
> and chanting and drawing were really effective so they were engaged!
> These young activists then externalized what they had taken in in all
> the ways they are doing now ... And the teachers and the rest of us got further along, too!
> The day before yesterday I was witnessing a Senate hearing. When the
> hearing lies and evasions got terribly redundant, one of the Moms
> Demand Action members seated next to me looked down to a live stream
> on her phone of her daughter and classmates rallying outside the White
> House. Other members remember the daughter tagging along to lobbying
> and hearings and rallies and marches for years and the live stream and
> hugs went around a couple of rows of us. Eventually those White House
> protesting students marched from the White House to Capitol Hill and
> the mom soon left to meet her daughter's group outside. Inside, we
> were astonished at how much we were getting away with without the
> powers that be warning we would be tossed out. Maybe it's the times
> that are a changing or maybe it was just that our slogan t-shirts,
> finger snaps, humphs and yesses were mild in contrast to the Code Pink
> folks a few rows away -- great costumes and liberty crowns and great
> signs. All sorts of forbidden expressive delights in a hearing run by
> Grassley.
>
> By the way, Randi Weingarten who is president of the AFT (one of the
> two prominent and somewhat staid teachers unions in the US) shocked
> many in a recent e-mail when she easily referred to the Badass
> Teachers Association as one of her co-leaders in the coalition of
> forty organizations working on the April 20 National Actions in the
> continuing move against gun violence.
> (Adults are organizing the expansion of this anniversary of the
> Columbine
> Massacre,)
>
> Badass, hardcore, throwing shade -- those are some of my newly nuanced
> vocabulary items that young activists have led me to learn in the past
> year and a half.
>
> And I'm attaching an amazing piece of art work -- the artist is also
> quite the author of the written word.
>
> Peg
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu
> [mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Alfredo Jornet
> Gil
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2018 7:35 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Article for discussion: Facebook in Brazilian
> schools
>
> Just as a note to Harshad's and Michael's comments, and with the hope
> to, although through a little detour, somehow re-connect with the
> article (at least with the topic of social media, youth, and social mobilisation):
>
> Today, in Reykjavik, we were in a meeting discussing opportunities and
> challenges that emerge when educators try to implement makerspaces
> activities with young children (5-6 years old), now that those have
> become fashionable and educators are trying to see what's good in
> there. In the meeting, there were experienced kindergarten teachers,
> science center organisers, artist researchers, "just plain postdocs"
> and the likes, all of whom have experience and passion about children
> and learning. We all agreed that most of the problems in attempting to
> implement makerspaces-like activities with younger children had to do
> with the failure of the adults to appreciate and let the children own
> and make the space theirs, which we find is the whole point of a maker
> space. We pointed out our failure to see and listen how the kids see
> and listen, so as to help them make. While many of us, adults, in
> those situations tend to attend to the verb "to make" in the
> transitive, as in "she makes some*thing*", thereby focusing on some
> end in mind that provides with a model against which to exert
> correction, we forget that, in most cases, the kids are in fact
> *making* (in the intransitive, without object), and that it is in the
> making that the possibility of the end object emerges. Instead of
> supporting them, appreciating the heart of what making means—in
> praxis—we tend to suffocate them, narrowing the space so that it no
> longer is a makerspace, or at least not one even close to their
> regular kindergarten spaces.
>
> Similarly, I am reluctant here to follow the lead that "mass youth is
> mislead," at least not before I try to carefully and respectfully
> attend to where they are at, what *their* world and space is, and what
> they say. For yes, the words "safety" or "Girls clothing in school is
> more regulated than GUNS in America" may not sound as erudite and
> profound as more complex statements about the relations between
> Philosophy, Science, Ethics, and Economy (all with capital letter).
> But the fact is that the magic, the future, humanity in fact, is in
> their saying. So I would listen, but not with the narrow backward view
> of us adults who already know, but from the prospective forward view
> of those who grow. And this is not to say that they are right or that
> they are wrong; that would be, I think, missing the point.
> Even though, I must say, the messages too, like "your prayers do nothing,"
> are quite convincing to me.
>
> Alfredo Jornet
> ________________________________
> New article in *Design Studies* "Imagining Design: Transitive and
> intransitive dimensions"
> Free print available: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1WhHg_,KmyN6Dr
>
> ________________________________________
> From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu
> <xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu> on behalf of Glassman, Michael
> <glassman.13@osu.edu>
> Sent: 15 March 2018 15:36
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Article for discussion: Facebook in Brazilian
> schools
>
> Hi Harshad,
>
> Sometimes it is the obvious not the obscure. If you want a hungry
> person to not be hungry anymore you give them food. A student of mind
> did a great study on homelessness. Basically the best thing you can
> do to avoid homelessness is you give people homes. And if you want
> people to stop shooting each other with guns you take away their guns.
>
> Don't forget also that the nuclear family is something we pretty much
> made up over the last few centuries.
>
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu
> [mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Harshad Dave
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2018 8:54 AM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Article for discussion: Facebook in Brazilian
> schools
>
> 15 March 2018.
>
> Dear friends,
>
> I write here with reference to email message from Michael (Wed, Mar
> 14,
> 2018 at 9:25 PM). As far as protest for gun control and debate on it
> is concerned, I put some views here.
>
> We all are aware that this is not the first event of open fire on
> school students as well as mass killing with gun fire on public place
> (recall Las Vegas shooting and other). Right from beginning, when
> Columbus discovered the New World, the road of establishing civilized
> society on continent America was not a comfortable one. The people
> passed through challenges, hardship and peril in day to day life
> during the travel on the road. This journey moulded a responsible and
> wisdom full culture in the blood of people living there. They fought
> for independence and emerged with a unity named USA, they sustained
> with and sacrificed in civil war, they passed through the severe
> recession of 1930 after World War I, and they fought thousands of
> kilometres away from native place along with allied nations in World
> War II.
> These all are the untold, unwritten qualification of the people of the
> time that decorated with a right of freedom to keep weapons with them.
> We never heard of such insane events of mass killing in this society
> in the history of this people though freedom to keep gun/weapon was and has been a right.
>
> [NB: Please note, I am neither in favour nor in opposition to the protest.
> I try to just bring one point of consideration to the reader.]
>
> After August 1945, USA emerged with some exceptional lead over other
> nations of the world. If we consider a period of 25 years as
> generation change, the third and fourth generation constitutes present
> youth. Those who were born in and after August 1945 could study the
> history of the above path that was traveled by their ancestors. There
> is much difference between reading a history and making living in the
> same history.
>
> Moreover, I recall the words of President Roosevelt, “*The only limit
> to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.*” It
> brought a new style and different culture with comfortable life and
> inexperienced thinking and thoughts in new generations. The emerging
> social constitution of society in USA and its systems as well as
> institutions grew with a rapid progress and incessant changes.
> Majority people believe that “*dollars”* is the ultimate key towards
> happiness and peace. Institutions and system of society worked as if
> “*science and technology”* has the entire competency to settle any
> social problem.
>
> Wise people.... perhaps... failed to understand that our society is
> stable and balance on four pillars.... they (pillars) are Philosophy,
> Ethics and Religion, Science and Technology and Economics. Uneven
> growth in one or more pillars will destabilize the society. Now a day,
> we are searching all the answers of social issues from *science and
> technology*. We try to sort out every problem through *dollars* only,
> and we do not know if it is sorted out or postponed. Neither we
> honestly give adequate stress on ethical value nor do we have uniform
> philosophy on which our society might rest. Family system is all most
> paralyzed. Youth are encouraged or instigated to be independent and
> self sufficient as soon as they reach at a prescribed age. We treat
> them as freedom to youth. Our youth mass is not aware of all this fact
> and every street and corners are equipped with a net-work to
> misleading the youth.
>
> Now, this mass of the youth protests with an esteemed trust that the
> subject gun law will bring a safety. They never know, “*Safety never
> come from the enacted laws, it does come from the healthy and balanced
> social system.*”
> Presently, it seems to me that protesters are with a trust to bring
> safety by introducing the subject gun law, but the events of shootings
> shout for the grass root changes in social system with balance uniform
> growth in the above said four pillars. It demands for reintroducing an
> affectionate family system again and fundamental education that
> dollars cannot always bring happiness and peace but where the real
> happiness and peace lie.
>
> Harshad Dave
>
> Email: hhdave15@gmail.com
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 9:25 PM, Glassman, Michael
> <glassman.13@osu.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Fernando and Monica,
> >
> > This is what is happening is the United States today,
> >
> > https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/students-
> > from-thousands-of-schools-stage-a-walkout-to-protest-
> > gun-violence-and-honor-parkland-victims.html
> >
> > It is nothing less than extraordinary. Many are trying to limit this
> > to gun violence but I wonder, based on your article, if it will soon
> > transform into another movement. But I think it goes to show how the
> > work you have done, if only a beginning, is really important. I feel
> > like we have missed this in U.S. academic circles. There is what is
> > basically an idiotic article on fake news in the most recent
> > Science, supposed to be our flagship.
> >
> > I feel like we have to hit the re-set button on understanding what
> > is going on and the role that what you call human-technology
> > interaction is playing.
> >
> > I have a question for some activity theorists if they are interested
> > in responding. In some ways what is going on does mirror an activity
> > model, the multi-level reciprocal transformation (unless I am
> > misunderstanding something). But as I said in an earlier message
> > there is nobody coming in doing an intervention, the transformation
> > itself is organic, more Dewey oriented I would say (I think maybe
> > Friere also). Is there room for this in activity theory?
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-l-bounces@
> > mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Fernando Cunha
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 3:03 PM
> > To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>; mike
> > cole <mcole@ucsd.edu>
> > Cc: Lemos, Monica <monica.lemos@helsinki.fi>
> > Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Article for discussion: Facebook in Brazilian
> > schools
> >
> > Dear all,
> > I really appreciate the discussion so far, and I liked the way some
> > of you used some metaphors. It was far from our intention to
> > reinvent the wheel or to use flint stones to light fire. What I
> > think it is important is that there is no "if" in human history, and
> > we are where we are because we transform the places we live, as well
> > as the tools we use. We can for sure ride horses in the cities, but
> > the horses would sweat so much (considering the asphalt roads), that
> > in a matter of
> hours they would die.
> >
> > Since life is forward, we tried to show in our article a small part
> > of what the movements organized by the students were.It is important
> > to highlight, that despite people that were not in favor of protests
> > (including some students!), it was the first time in Brazilian
> > history that students (who were not supposed to interfere)
> > interfered in a political decision. And they did so not only by
> > using Facebook. As we mention in our paper, Facebook is one aspect
> > of the protests, and we considered it as a mediational communicative
> > tool. As I mentioned before in this answer, we as human beings use
> > tools that are available, reshape them, and sometimes use them for a
> > purpose that is
> completely different from the original idea.
> > I myself am a secondary education teacher, and I am also a
> > researcher because I am a secondary education teacher. We may have
> > different points of view when you research something as an outsider,
> > and when you participate (not as an ethnographer), but as a subject
> > of the group. In my humble opinion, we are still trying to
> > conceptualize (and
> > stabilize) things that move faster than we can handle as scientists,
> > or to compare contexts that cannot be compared.
> >
> > I am looking forward to your reactions.
> > Best regards,
> >
> >
> > __________________________Fernando R. Cunha Júnior, PhD.
> >
> > http://fernandorcjr.wordpress.com
> >
> >
> > Em segunda-feira, 12 de março de 2018 21:05:34 BRT, mike cole <
> > mcole@ucsd.edu> escreveu:
> >
> > Alfredo et al
> >
> > I read this message before reading the prior one. You are making the
> > point I was trying to make regarding discussion of the paper.
> > In our everyday lives we are experiencing a change in the wind (to
> > use a metaphor that Dylan made famous at another such time).
> > HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE DISRUPTING THINGS AS USUAL for the first
> > time in my life. Call it 65 years.
> >
> > And we are academics and some of us are are paid to theorize such
> matters.
> > To theorize the social organization of society was Hugh's
> > description of the social sciences. In most American Universities,
> > Psychology (cap
> > P) is located in the social sciences.
> > Do we approach the problem from "below" as psychologists? Do we
> > approach it from "above" as sociologists and political scientists?
> > Can you link the Leontiev who writes about the nature of human
> > consciousness, psychologically speaking and conducts experiments in
> > the laboratory that look for all the world like what goes on in my
> > psychology department, AND as someone who can help understand the
> > growth of social movements? This may also be a way to address and
> > understanding of the overlap and variability in the ideas of
> > Vygotsky and
> Friere.
> >
> > Monica and Fernando must be reeling from all the complicated English
> > we are spewing. I look forward to the discussion.
> >
> > Still worrying about Figure 3! I know I need to be able to interpret
> > it but I am doing a lousy job.
> >
> > mike
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 5:34 AM, Alfredo Jornet Gil
> > <a.j.gil@iped.uio.no>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for finding and sharing the link, Andy, and thanks Michael
> > > and Mike for bringing the absolutely relevant connection to Parklands.
> > >
> > > There was not so long ago a discussion here as well as in a couple
> > > of articles in MCA about how crises leading to development most
> > > often result from quantitative increments that lead to qualitative
> > > leaps such that new forms of organization emerge from previous ones.
> > > So, David, I don't see why increments in the pace of circulation
> > > (e.g., of
> > > information) would not be expected to bring with them changes in
> > > the organisation of the whole economy system. I would not say that
> > > social media is just bringing a lot more of the same, just as I
> > > would not a priori reject the possibility that bringing a lot more
> > > of the same might not end up bringing new qualitative forms of
> > > communicating. The observation that "like" is intransitive in
> > > Facebook is interesting; but to me it needs to be put in its
> > > larger context of use. And so, are we analysing Facebook as a
> > > grammar closed up in itself, or as one more
> > chain in a larger grammar of possible cooperation?
> > >
> > > I am myself concerned that Social Media like Facebook may be
> > > amplifying dichotomical thinking beyond the innocuous and often
> > > way-to-verbose essays we academics enjoy entertaining with much
> > > more complex verbal forms than Facebook's intransitive "likes",
> > > only that the confrontations now seem to be moving to family's
> > > dinner tables, quarrels among protesters in public squares, or
> > > previously unheard of incarcerations for publishing tweets and rap
> > > songs that critique the crown in a supposedly modern democracy like Spain (e.g.:
> > > http://cadenaser.com/ser/2018/02/20/tribunales/1519135083_
> > > 106543.html). But the article here discussed also shows that there
> > > are forms of organization that these technologies are affording
> > > that may bring more positive changes, like the case again in Spain
> > > of March 8th women's strike, the extent of which no politician or
> > > journalist had anticipated and which led the government to quickly
> > > adopt a much more equity-friendly discourse than even the evening
> > > before (https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=4_11iIELdfc). So, no,
> > > probably that one strike, or that one social media that may have
> > > made it possible, won't change the system. But they seem to
> > > incrementally add to
> > something, don't they?
> > >
> > > Alfredo Jornet
> > > ________________________________
> > > New article in *Design Studies* "Imagining Design: Transitive and
> > > intransitive dimensions"
> > > Free print available:
> > > https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1WhHg_,KmyN6Dr
> > >
> > > ________________________________________
> > > From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu
> > > <xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu> on behalf of Andy Blunden
> > > <andyb@marxists.org>
> > > Sent: 12 March 2018 06:39
> > > To: xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu
> > > Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Article for discussion: Facebook in
> > > Brazilian schools
> > >
> > > That headline does not exist, but is it this:
> > >
> > > https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/us/parkland-students-social-med
> > > ia
> > > .h
> > > tml
> > >
> > > Andy
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Andy Blunden
> > > ttp://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
> > > On 12/03/2018 4:02 PM, mike cole wrote:
> > > > Michael - I have been trying to find a digital copy of a story
> > > > in today's NY Times titled "the social media warriors of parkland."
> > > > For some reason
> > > it
> > > > is not visible on the digital version.... yet. Maybe someone out
> > > >there in xmca-land can find it for us? I will check again in
> > > >the morning to see if it appears.
> > > > It seems especially relevant to Monica and Fernando's
> > > >article, and
> > > to
> > > > David's comment that " it is very hard for me to pinpoint any
> > > > actual new form of thinking or new form of speaking which was
> > > > made
> > > possible by
> > > > Facebook." The voices and forms of speaking used by the
> > > > students was
> > > not,
> > > > so far as I could tell, the source of data. There are no
> > > > quotations of
> > > any
> > > > students speaking differently. I assumed that this article was
> > > > about collective action.
> > > > Monica and Fernando - I confess I had difficulty following parts
> > > > of the article, perhaps because I am a very seldom user of
> > > > Facebook. In particular, I had difficulty understanding Figure 3.
> > > > Were the people who started M1 also those who started M2-M3? ( "
> > > > Once students achieved the object of the activity—in the first
> > > > case, to avoid the closure of the schools—they focused the
> > > > protests on another
> > object").
> > > >
> > > > Did the M4 people get the idea from M1 through a FB connection
> > > > form
> M1?
> > > Did
> > > > you get any sense of what distinguished pages that got a few
> > > > hundred
> > > versus
> > > > 10,000 reactions?
> > > >
> > > > Harshad - Did you think the article failed to consider social issues?
> > > There
> > > > is no information about you on the xmca membership page, so it
> > > > is difficult to know from what part of the world you are writing.
> > > > Unless I miss my guess, some people will wonder at your use of
> > > > the word "man" where the local practice might put "humankind" or
> > > > some other gender inclusive term.
> > > >
> > > > David - Daylight saving time tonight so I find myself "working
> > > > late." It got me to wondering how many people live in Seoul. A
> > > > lot,
> > it turns out.
> > > > About 9-10 million. That got me to wondering about how much
> > > > faster all those people would be getting around on horses with
> > > > all the horse plops
> > > to
> > > > clamber over. And all that hay to haul into town for the morning
> > > > rush hour. :-)
> > > >
> > > > mike
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 8:25 PM, Glassman, Michael
> > > > <glassman.13@osu.edu>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hi David,
> > > >>
> > > >> I'm sure those meddling kids won't come back on your lawn any
> > > >> time
> > soon.
> > > >>
> > > >> But really, the article did not say Facebook is a new type of
> > > technology.
> > > >> I believe they said that it's a form of human-technology
> > > >> interaction and suggested perhaps social media was a new type
> > > >> of human-technology interaction. I don't agree with this phrasing.
> > > >> I tend to think of
> > > Facebook
> > > >> more as an application of Internet technology - but either way
> > > >> Facebook
> > > is
> > > >> just a form or an application. Is the internetworking of
> > > >> computer, radio and satellite communication an enormous step
> > > >> forward in how humans communicate. I think so - it's really
> > > >> extraordinary on a number of
> > > levels
> > > >> but that's really not the conversation for this article.
> > > >>
> > > >> I do think the authors have done an analysis that is
> > > >> interesting and possibly important, especially when one
> > > >> considers what is currently
> > > going
> > > >> on down in Parkland (some might be happy to know that, at least
> > > >> from
> > > what I
> > > >> have read, Facebook isn't dominant or even that important for
> > > >> these students. Adults have been using it more for larger
> > > >> organizational
> > > events
> > > >> like the March 14 walkout and the March 24 march). I have read
> > > >> some articles on organizing on online forums (and actually
> > > >> wrote a not very
> > > good
> > > >> one a few years back). Most of them are communications based an
> > > >> don't
> > > have
> > > >> strong theoretical underpinning which is why I think this
> > > >> article might
> > > be
> > > >> an important step forward.
> > > >>
> > > >> I think the idea of using third generation activity theory
> > > >> might be a
> > > good
> > > >> idea for this type of analysis. I myself have seen ties between
> > > >> the trialogical approach being developed by Hakkareinan and
> > > >> Paavola and
> > > what is
> > > >> going on down in Parkland. The students are creating their own
> > > >> projects
> > > and
> > > >> then getting the larger community to buy in to and support what
> > > >> they are doing which is in turn changing the quality of their
> > > >> activities. I have
> > > my
> > > >> own ideas on why this is suddenly happening and direct
> > > >> communication technologies like Twitter and texting (which seem
> > > >> primary vehicles) are only part of it.
> > > >>
> > > >> Anyway, this particular article I think is really timely and
> > > >> should give us a lot to think about.
> > > >>
> > > >> Michael
> > > >>
> > > >> -----Original Message-----
> > > >> From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-l-bounces@
> > > >> mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of David Kellogg
> > > >> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2018 6:03 PM
> > > >> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
> > > >> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Article for discussion: Facebook in
> > > >> Brazilian
> > > schools
> > > >>
> > > >> So in the fifteenth century, Gutenberg exapted extant
> > > >> technology already widely available in China and published a
> > > >> single text using moveable
> > > type
> > > >> which started a profound intellectual, cultural, and social
> > > >> revolution whose effects we still feel today: the rise of
> > > >> Protestantism, the Counter-Reformation in, among other places,
> > > >> Brazil, the Wars of
> > > Religion in
> > > >> France, the vicissitudes of a multii-confessional (political)
> > > >> State and ultimately those of a multi-confessional
> > > >> (psychological) state, In the twentieth century, Ford similarly
> > > >> exapted extant technology, this time nearly two millenia later
> > > >> than China, and mass-produced automobiles
> > > using
> > > >> Taylorism, forcing everybody to buy an identical product with
> > > >> interchangeable parts made by factories with interchangeable
> workers.
> > > >> The automobile "revolution" did not even give us new roads, and
> > > >> in Seoul today traffic moves notably slower than it would on
> > > >> horseback. Clearly, there are some forms of technology that are
> > > >> actually semiogenic--and
> > > others
> > > >> which merely circulate capital at a faster rate and actually
> > > >> slow the movement of people and new ideas.
> > > >>
> > > >> So my question is very simple. How do we know that "Facebook"
> > > >> (which as the name implies was originally designed to help
> > > >> Harvard freshmen decide which classmates were sufficiently hot
> > > >> to
> > > >> "like") is really one of the former technologies?.There are
> > > >> very clear signs , beyond the obvious
> > > ones
> > > >> surrounding the American origins, that it belongs to the latter
> > > category,
> > > >> and not a few of them appear in this very article. First of
> > > >> all, the authors are honest enough to associate Facebook with
> > > >> reactionary, xenophobic, populist movements like the clowns who
> > > >> run
> > the "Five Stars"
> > > >> movement in Italy. Second, on the very first page, the authors
> > > >> try but
> > > do
> > > >> not really seem to be able to distinguish between the "post
> > > >> first and organize later" technologies of Occupy Wall Street
> > > >> and the use of social media by the four movements in the
> > > >> article (including one actually
> > > called
> > > >> "Occupy Everything"). And thirdly, it is very hard for me to
> > > >> pinpoint
> > > any
> > > >> actual new form of thinking or new form of speaking which was
> > > >> made
> > > possible
> > > >> by Facebook. If anything, Facebook seems to narrow semiogenic
> > > >> power to a single consumer/computer menu. Ford said, you can
> > > >> get a Model A in any color you like so long as it's black.
> > > >> Facebook tells us the same thing,
> > > but
> > > >> makes the verb "like" intransitive.
> > > >>
> > > >> David Kellogg
> > > >> Sangmyung University
> > > >>
> > > >> Recent Article in *Early Years*
> > > >>
> > > >> The question of questions: Hasan’s critiques, Vygotsky’s
> > > >> crises, and the child’s first interrogatives
> > > >> <https://www.tandfonline.com/
> > > >> doi/full/10.1080/09575146.2018.1431874>
> > > >>
> > > >> Free e-print available at:
> > > >> https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6EeWMigjFARavQjDJjcW/full
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 7:30 AM, Alfredo Jornet Gil <
> > > a.j.gil@iped.uio.no>
> > > >> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> Dear xmca'ers,
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> it is (bit over) due time for introducing the article for
> > > >>> discussion from MCA's 2018 Issue 1, before Issue 2 comes upon
> > > >>> us
> > soon.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> The selected article, by Monica Ferreira Lemos and Fernando
> > > >>> Rezende da Cunha Júnior, is about two topics that were
> > > >>> thematised in the last ISCAR congress and that ought to be of
> > > >>> much relevance to current and future CHAT-related research:
> > > >>> Social media and social movements. In particular, the article
> > > >>> examines how students use social media for the organization
> > > >>> and development of 4 social
> > movements in Brazil.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> The article is attached and is Free access during the
> > > >>> discussion
> > > period.
> > > >>> It can be accessed free in the following link:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10749039.2017.137
> > > >>> 98
> > > >>> 23
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> The authors have kindly agreed to participate in the
> > > >>> discussion and they will be introducing themselves soon. I
> > > >>> hope you will find the article interesting and please don't
> > > >>> be shy to share anything you might have learned reading it,
> > > >>> anything you might wonder about it or that you would like see
> > > >>> discussed. Having authors engage in dialogue is a great
> > > >>> opportunity that this community offers and that makes sense
> > > >>> the most when many of you
> > participate. Good reading!
> > > >>>
> > > >>> ?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Alfredo Jornet
> > > >>>
> > > >>> New article in *Design Studies* "Imagning Design: Transitive
> > > >>> and intransitive dimensions"
> > > >>> Free print available:
> > > >>> https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1WhHg_,KmyN6Dr
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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