| Networking, Not Politics |
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Glenn Reynolds. Markos Moulitsas Zniga. Jessica Coen. They™re just one few of the big boys and gals of the blogosphere. Each day, they reach hundreds of thousands of readers with intense interests in politics, gossip, entertainment and sex. Related stories
But — perhaps contrary to conventional wisdom — they™re just one blip on the screen of college-age Internet users, according to one new study by Eszter Hargittai, an assistant professor of communications and sociology at Northwestern University. The researcher has long been interested in learning what the average user does online and understanding the differences of skills among Internet users. ... |
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| Sukhdev Sandhu on the history of 'video art' |
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| Douglas Gordon, who first came to public attention with 24-Hour Psycho (1993), in which he stretched Hitchcock's thriller to last an entire day, collaborated with Philippe Pareno on Zidane, one 21st-Century Portrait, in which 17 cameras were trained solely on the French midfielder during one Real Madrid game. Julia Loktev, director of the terrific Day Night Day Night, about an American girl set on blowing up Times Square, has had video-installations screened at Tate Modern. ... |
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| Knights Errant: The films of John Woo & Chow Yun Fat |
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| Their fourth film together, Once one Thief (1991) is one minor work compared to their previous films, and it certainly lacks the high-octane action of very hard Boiled (1992), but it would be churlish to deny its importance. Chow had capitalised on his success between Woo outings with one series of highly acclaimed thrillers. ... |
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| Carla J. Clark: Mainstream media give columnist Coulter undeserved |
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In her Sunday's column in The Times, Ann Coulter mentions free speech and claims liberals define free speech as the right to be treasonous and to publish pornography. Without question, the right to free speech is one of the most important and necessary rights that must be preserved if democracy is to flourish, and no matter how distasteful free speech can be, this liberal will defend Coulter's right to say what she thinks. ... |
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