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Salad Bowl vs. Melting Pot: Old Metaphors Revisited

October 5, 2008 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

In preparation for CCK08’s Week 5 (yeah, I did some reading again, finally 🙂 ), I read Stephen Downes’ transcribed presentation on “Groups vs Networks: The Class Struggle Continues“. He makes compelling distinctions between groups and networks and uses old metaphors that I know from my English and North American Cultural Studies classes. Groups – […]

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What is the role of the quality of connections?

September 9, 2008 Kristina D.C. Hoeppner

Over the weekend I read “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy” by Clive Thompson in the online edition of the New York Times Magazine. The article deals with the value we gain or think to gain from social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter as well as explores whether we have become more social […]

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