December 2011
1 post
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November 2011
6 posts
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“For a long time, evolutionary psychologists have claimed that we are all...”
– The Atlantic
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“The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.”
– Robert R. Coveyou
“When you write a scholarly work, it tends to be understood by very few people,...”
– Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn Has Become the Go-To Guy of Tech - NYTimes.com (via markgammon)
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“If you set women up as sexual objects which society has, no matter what we are...”
– Thought provoking statements by S. Orbach (psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and writer) in a Guardian article about woman bloggers
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“The implication that a woman must be sexually appealing to be taken seriously as...”
– Thought provoking statements by L. Penny (columnist) in a Guardian article about woman bloggers
September 2011
2 posts
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“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.”
– John Naisbitt (via weaux)
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“… there are some amazing tools for social scientists to use to study...”
– danah boyd wrote this in 2004 - it still cannot be repeated and underlined enough today (2011).
August 2011
2 posts
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“If we can’t resist the spread of information, we are likely to adapt our own...”
– Article brought to my attention by Estelle Métayer
July 2011
6 posts
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“Observation of reality puts us on our guard against the temptation to construct...”
– Pierre Bourdieu (via robert-brydie)
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“The biggest lie in social media is that users are in control.”
– Joe Hall
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“Much of the time engineers resist the idea that their work has moral or...”
– Eli Pariser FTW
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“Authenticity is like pornography, you know it when you see it.”
– Ariana Huffington
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“The systems approaches may not provide a good explanation of day-to-day actions,...”
June 2011
9 posts
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“Most senior managers struggle with culture because it’s so difficult to...”
– You Can’t Dictate Culture — but You Can Influence It
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“Scheint uns die Bereitschaft zu kooperieren unter Freunden über Plattformen wie...”
– Wieso wir mit Google nicht zusammenarbeiten wollen by Sandro Graf
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"Warum?" Homo oeconomicus schweigt.
Blicken wir auf die klassische Ökonomie und lehnen uns an den Homo oeconimiucs [sic!], der nur zu seinem eigenen Nutzen handelt, finden wir keine Antworten.
Einverstanden! IMHO: Allgemein ist der Homo oeconomicus als theoretisches Konstrukt und Forschungskozeption nur sehr beschränkt einsetzbar - wenn überhaupt - um Realität zu erklären.
Gefunden hier. Sandro Graf FTW!
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“In my world of social science scholarship, we make sense of human life not only...”
– Sexy Headlines and Skimpy Science: The Debate on Women and Attractive Husbands
by Andrea Doucet
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“Recently we have witnessed the increasing popularity of social media monitoring....”
– Social business design: An introduction to the future of your firm
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“Early this morning, I was in a bad mood and decided to break a law and start my...”
– Bruno Latour, French sociologist, What Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts (via baaadnewsbears)
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“Le paléoanthropologue Pascal Picq appelle cela, dans son livre Nouvelle histoire...”
– La sociobiologie ou la préhistoire perpétuelle des femmes
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Fréquenter les réseaux sociaux sur internet, par...
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Social networking sites and our lives →
Questions have been raised about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. Do these technologies isolate people and truncate their relationships? Or are there benefits associated with being connected to others in this way? The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project decided to examine social networking sites...