[Xmca-l] Re: Article for discussion: Facebook in Brazilian schools

[mike cole]

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-media
> > > .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/10.1080/10749039.2017.13798
> > > >>> 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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