Gojiberries (Page 43)

Sign in Subscribe

More issues

The Economy of Everyday Conversation

Communication comes from the Latin word communicare, which means “to make common.” We communicate not only to transfer information, but also to establish and reaffirm identities, mores, and meanings. The two major localities of communication are the consumption of mass media and everyday conversation. While both inform how we view

Selected Ethnography of Marketing in India

Biscuits (cookies) in India are marketed for their glucose shakti (power), bathing soaps for their ability to get rid of germs, hair oil for its efficaciousness in keeping the lice away, and a “fair and lovely” cream for its eponymous abilities (fair=lovely). We have popular biscuits made by Britannia,

Secret Loss in 'Peach Blossom Land'

Taiwanese playwright Stan Lai's Secret Love In Peach Blossom Land employs a metatheatrical framework to examine memory, displacement, and cultural identity. By staging two ostensibly incompatible plays simultaneously, Lai creates a sophisticated commentary on how contemporary societies negotiate their relationship with history. Structural Innovation The play's

Conversation With Bill Thompson: Fragmented Information

This is the fourth and concluding part of the interview with BBC technology columnist, Mr. Bill Thompson. part 1, part 2, part 3An epidemiological study of how knowledge has traditionally spread in the world would probably show that at any one time, only a small amount of knowledge is available

Conversation With Bill Thompson: Copyright Law

This is part III of a four-part interview with Mr. Bill Thompson, noted technology columnist with the BBC. part 1, part 2 "Copyright is not a Lockean natural right but is a limited right granted to authors in order to further the public interest. This principle is explicitly expressed

Conversation With Bill Thompson: The Political Economy of the Internet

This is part 2 of the interview with Bill Thompson, a technology columnist for the BBC. part 1 When I look at the Internet, there is this wonderful sense of volunteerism. It is incredible to see the kind of things that have come out of recent technology, like the open

Conversation With Bill Thompson: The Future

Bill Thompson is a technology commentator for the BBC. Mr. Thompson was born in 1960 and grew up before there were computers around. "Indeed, I never touched one at school.” It was not until his third year at Cambridge University, when he was running experiments in Psychology, that he