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Terri Willard
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Queen of all I survey
October 24, 2002 - 02:57 AM
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Ok - for those of you who don't know me well enough by now, that's tongue in cheek, folks. But, it grows out of an interesting article in The Atlantic on the Superiority Complex in America. According to the article, ICTs have sped up people's ability to only associate and surround themselves with people like themselves. While this makes people feel quite good about themselves, it has the negative consequence of fragmenting society to the point that we don't move outside of our comfort zones to learn about people who may be different from ourselves.
Your thoughts on the article?
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well . . .
October 25, 2002 - 05:46 AM
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it can't be good that most Americans have entered their own little worlds of self-validation and know very little about their countrymen outside
Is that where all the anti-American sentiment comes from? From CNN reports of grandmothers line dancing or the thrill an Alaskan Oil executive gets from looking at the size of his VLCC?
My feelings are that however eloquently the article was put, it failed to grasp the grass-root cultural differences, and not just the marginalisation aspect.
Indeed, this wasnt the main focus of the article.
I understand completely the authors reckoning that such marginalisation and isolation leads to national stagnation.
Im going to continue this later. Dinner.
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Re: Queen of all I survey
October 25, 2002 - 08:42 AM
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well i quite agree with u. but i don't really blame them cos we live in the jet age and it's either u "fly" with the crowd or get left behind. things will only get better if the high fliers will ALWAYS remember that there are many people out there who'd really want to fly too given the chance.so hey u highfliers why not reach out and give someone a helping hand.
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wow
November 7, 2002 - 01:14 AM
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this is encredibley funny. this disease is all too rampant in the activist community! just another reminder that i need to do more listening and less talking.
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Terri Willard
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Accessing different views
March 28, 2003 - 01:17 AM
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It was interesting today to see that a Canadian cable company has applied for a license to broadcast Al-Jazeera in Canada.
According to the article, "the application was submitted based on research conducted by al-Jazeera representatives that concluded there was customer demand". Others, however, are countering that there is no such demand - whether due to the fact that the Arab Canadian community is picking it up already via black market satellite links or whether there really is no demand is still up in the air.
All in all, it just made me think that sometimes its important to make something available whether or not there is a demand. It all goes back to trying to break people out of surrounding themselves with only the familiar and what they agree with... Sometimes maybe there is a public duty to make alternate views of the world available.
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Re: Queen of all I survey
March 28, 2003 - 03:32 AM
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It is important to be able to see other world views... sometimes we're too firmly ensconced in our own to really understand what others feel.
I'm not sure that Al-Jazeera is the answer to this, but I know that TIG is a type of forum that helps people communicate. Communication technologies will only become more prevalent as time goes on, and as these technologies become more developed, more people will be able to use them; that way, we will be exposed to more viewpoints.
The question does remain though, if the places that will utilize these technologies will remain mainly developed nations or if other regions of the world will get the chance to "join the net revolution".
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Re: Queen of all I survey
March 31, 2003 - 10:14 AM
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Al Jazeera in Italy can be seen via satellite... I look at it at times for curiosity even if I can't understand a word of what's being said...
My general feeling is that information should be accesible, your right to an opinion is stictly linked with the info you have available, Von Hayek says he that controls all the means decides all the aims...
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CBC perspective on Al Jazeera
April 2, 2003 - 05:35 AM
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I haven't had a chance to watch this yet, but I'm dying to see the video clip at http://www.cbc.ca/disclosure/archives/030401.html#aljazeera
It claims:
"And a lot of the pictures are coming from a new media power - the Arab satellite station, Al-Jazeera. This brash upstart has won big audiences in the Arab world and lots of attention in the Western media. Disclosure's Gillian Findlay spent the first days of the war at Al-Jazeera's offices in Qatar and reveals a different face of the media darling."
Oh my... it's fascinating to watch the clash of perspectives on how the media should operate.
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