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  How 'bout Them Apples? – A 19th Century Object Lesson for 21st Century Technology

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  David J. Gunkel Northern Illinois University

  January 14, 2011

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  grass; and they demonstrate their own intelligence by jumping over obstacles and running away. This is ... century.   Our machines—whether smart phones, automated web services, software bots, learning systems, ...
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  Technological#Failure

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  Kristopher L. Cannon Georgia State University

  January 15, 2012

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  we learn about the "thingness" of technologies when they "fail" to function? And, ... more poignantly, what might we learn about our misperceptions about "things" when we cannot ...
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  The Post-Truth World – Notes from the Occult (on our cybernetic present)

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  Robert Wright University of Wolverhampton

  January 28, 2017

  living in an information age we need to learn what that entails. The founder of cybernetics himself, ... broken the spell of the cyber-utopians and we should now hopefully learn that online ‘We are as wizards, ...
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  Education 2.0?

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  Kathleen Fitzpatrick Michigan State University

  January 29, 2009

  and better learning?  Individual faculty and folks like librarians and instructional technologists ...
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  Haraway’s Cyborg, ASMR, and Adjusting Faces

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  Geneveive Newman University of Pittsburgh

  March 01, 2021

  Curator's Note [Run video from 6:31-9:03] In 1964, Marshall McLuhan announced that “the medium is the ...
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  "All the Single Babies": Adorable/ Automaton?

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  Alanna Thain McGill University

  April 29, 2010

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  or the nostalgic charm of a now-forgotten learning curve, we might understand dancing babies—both the ...
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  Drone Seeing: On the banality of petrification

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  Remy Yi Siang Low University of Sydney

  January 10, 2016

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  a matter of routine, I launched the Learning Management System (LMS) that I, like many university teachers, ...
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  The Question Concerning Technological Humor

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  Aaron Dickinson Sachs Saint Mary's College of California

  June 07, 2016

  a computer to tell a joke is thus less about revealing the essence of humor—the craft of learning how to ...
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  In Media Res in the Classroom – “We’re at ‘Now’ Now”

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  Laura Zaylea Temple University

  March 04, 2013

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  In Media Res in the Classroom – “We’re at ‘Now’ Now” technology education technology digital technology Curator's Note In the 1987 comedy Spaceballs, Lord Dark Helmet and his team search for runaway protagonists by renting a VHS copy of Spaceballs–Th ...
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  Advertising and the Older Generation: Humerous or Degrading?

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  Caja Thimm University of Bonn, Germany

  March 23, 2009

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  Advertising and the Older Generation: Humerous or Degrading? technology Stereotypes old age Curator's Note Guided by a perspective that advertisements are not just about selling products, brand names, and services, I am studying the content and socia ...

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