{"id":15237,"date":"2013-04-14T08:48:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T12:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=15237"},"modified":"2013-04-14T08:48:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T12:48:57","slug":"in-their-words-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2013\/04\/14\/in-their-words-41\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/08\/business\/media\/bubble-or-no-virtual-bitcoins-show-real-worth.html?pagewanted=2&amp;_r=0&amp;pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">the collective value of all bitcoins has passed a billion dollars<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/commentary\/columnists\/where-were-you-in-the-great-bitcoin-crash-i-did-my-part\/article11174065\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pa was a simple man, a techno-anarchist by trade, and long after the Bitcoin bust, he stayed on with the mining. \u201cDon\u2019t know nothin\u2019 else, Ma said<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-21956743\" target=\"_blank\">Irene Serra chose the name -isq for her band deliberately to make it hard to find online<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IE0tKalLsTU\" target=\"_blank\">the public quickly accepts all the miracles that science provides (1948)<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/2013\/04\/20134265610113939.html\" target=\"_blank\">From paywalls to jargon to a tacit moratorium on social media, academics build careers through public disengagement<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/moreorlessbunk.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/01\/real-college-classes-have-writing-assignments-and-required-reading\/\" target=\"_blank\">watching videos on the Internet &amp; maybe writing a few very short essays that the professor never sees isn\u2019t college<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/dissecting-the-frog\/\" target=\"_blank\">it is often difficult to distinguish between organized trolling and media linkbait<\/a>&#8220;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/elements\/2013\/04\/silicon-valley-start-ups-and-the-end-of-stanford.html#ixzz2Q3woRJ3E\" target=\"_blank\">[Stanford] now looks like a giant tech incubator with a football team<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/11\/technology\/personaltech\/facebooks-grab-for-your-phone-what-gives.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">the latest billboard for advertising is your own cellphone\u2019s home screen<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/jwherrman\/the-facebook-phones-biggest-problem\" target=\"_blank\">almost nobody genuinely desired a Facebook Phone<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/autofill-mythologies\/\" target=\"_blank\">They don\u2019t call it ruin porn in Rome<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl\/2012\/10\/01\/book-review-media-life-by-mark-deuze\/\" target=\"_blank\">we live \u201cin media\u201d, not \u201cwith media\u201d<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2013\/04\/11\/emily-bazelon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital evidence led to convictions in Steubenville. Why cant it play the same role in the case of Rehtaeh Parsons?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Nathan is on Twitter [<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathanjurgenson\" target=\"_blank\">@nathanjurgenson<\/a>] and Tumblr [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathanjurgenson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">nathanjurgenson.com<\/a>].<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/bcd511947d6d5fb52f42641610418b7c\/tumblr_ml0dh3u2CA1r8z539o1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/o.onionstatic.com\/images\/21\/21198\/original\/700.hq.jpg?5982\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/5dcbc77f47103a0047d4444ae0a98fa4\/tumblr_ml653kvByj1qzvyj2o1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"637\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/e32882f69531f8971eadb573c02281b5\/tumblr_mkz2q7l6eP1r8z539o1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tech and society quotes from what i read this past week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18297],"tags":[36439,2954,18298,3507,12],"class_list":["post-15237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-their-words","tag-in-their-words","tag-jurgenson","tag-quotes","tag-society","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15237"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15243,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237\/revisions\/15243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}