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JUST LIKE US HUMANS
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California State University, Dominguez Hills(CSUDH)
Created: July 8, 2011
Latest update: July 8, 2011
E-Mail to Jeanne in L.A.
E-Mail to Susan at UWP.
But How Did I Help?
You Played with Me
Until We Figured It OutSusan, I need to give credit to Stanley of the New School for Cleveland. Play with it. jeanne
Susan, I'm still checking for the link Kay was after: Here's one:
This is stuff that definitely needs to be cleaned up and related to present results and theory. Sure, I didn't have anything else to do. jeanne
- Working paper on Susan, I gave up so long ago trying to find a place where we fit, that I don't even remember this paper. We probably presented it at some conference, knowing us. And to no avail. Because no one listens unless you're "connected." Speaking of which, whatever is Linked In?. Sounds like they operate with our dog letters. Remind me to tell you. About it. jeanne
- Part of Variations on Us and Them
- Identity and Anti-norms
- Social Theoretical Issues in the Design of Collaboratories: Customized Software for Community Support versus Large-Scale Infrastructure. Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, University of California at San Diego. "The same factors which have thus coalesced into the exactness and minute precision of the form of life have coalesced into a structure of the highest impersonality; on the other hand, they have promoted a highly personal subjectivity. Simmel, 1960, p. 413"
From Google books:
Sorting Things Out Review: Sorting Things Out. Classification and Its Consequences User Review - Nick - Goodreads
Finally got through this. There were some really great ideas and passages here, and there were some thick, unreadably opaque sections, of the sort in which all the words in the sentence are clearly ... Read full review Editorial Review - Cahners Business Information (c) 1999
Classification theory is tough reading, but this is an important book that expounds the basics in a new fashion. Bowker and Star, both professors in the department of communication at the University of California, San Diego, emphasize (and show how) classification becomes invisible as it gains acceptance and exerts ever greater influence over our daily lives. They explore three issues: the role of classification in large infrastructures; classification and biography; and classification and work practice. The authors analyze the International Classification of Diseases, the Nursing Interventions Classification, the South African race classification under apartheid, and other working systems to illustrate their points about the inevitable social, political, and economic impacts of classification on people, mainly because we take them for granted, assume they represent the "natural" way of the world, and therefore that we must conform to them. The closing chapter, "Why Classifications Matter," should be required reading for every librarian. It sums up what has gone before and sensitizes us to the power of classification--a power we wield as organizers of information. Highly recommended for library and information science educators, students, and practicing classifiers; this book is a must for all professional bookshelves, not just for those of library schools and research institutions.--Sheila S. Intner, GSLIS, Simmons Coll., Boston
Men and Women in Crisis: The Journey to Harvest Terrence Real.
Pia Mellodycodependence and addiction.
Relational Therapies This is the file she was talking about, Susan. Yep. It's what we do. And lots of theoretical references from all these files.This will form the material on the site for advanced readers, who want to keep digging and understanding. Whew! jeanne 07.08.2011.
- Newspapers: Labeling here is based on an article by Ashley K. Vroman on the impossibility of labeling newspapers by ideology. I personally go along with the conclusion of the conservative Media Research Center's L. Brent Bozell III: if the paper never met a conservative cause it didn't like, it's conservative, and if it never met a liberal cause it didn't like, it's liberal.
But then, what about the Wall Street Journal whose news staff is considered liberal and its editorial staff considered conservative? Does that make them a tad schizophrenic? Not unless we all are. None of us humans are completely inflexible. Sometimes we think like liberals, and sometimes we think like conservatives, and sometimes we just plain forget to think before we speak.
Luckily, journalism has worked hard at maintaining a thoughtful and rational standard that we be honest and fair in what we report. Today we need to think on this a little more, because some popular media are more concerned with reporting "opposing" than "fair" perspectives, and are terribly careless with the meaning of "facts." jeanne 06.25.2011
- Liberal Newspapers:
New York Times - Los Angeles Times - The Washington Post
The Boston Globe - The Chicago Tribune- Conservative Newspapers:
The Wall Street Journal - The Washington Times - The New York Post
Manchester (N.H.) UnionLeader - The Oklahoman- Los Angeles County Library. Online service.
- World Cat Online search for finding books available in your local librairies. This may have become far more essential as funding for librairies is being cut. Check it out.
- PolitiFact.com
PolitiFact.com will give you extensive information on what's truth and what's rumor and what's not in news reporting and viral vidoes and e-mails. This is offered as a Public Service by the St. Petersburg Times, for which we thank them profusely. These are times for checking your facts.
* * * * * Desk References Farlex Free Online Dictionary:
Double click on any word on the site for a definition!
Sometimes this feature reports an error in the script.
In that case, close the error report screen. The feature still works, at least on my computer. Try it.jeanne (Your Webspinner)
OR Use the this box to look up the word.
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