Wednesday 24 March 2010

myth markets
and cultural activism
still fascinated by circuit of culture

http://www.emorymi.com/holt.shtml
re building of iconic brands

as brands cultivate group identities or impersonate activisms
or condescend ethnographically in ill-formed ad campaigns .  . .

alternate ethnographies:
hasidic jewish angelenos
LACC students' digital divide compared to stanford//or university digital divides generally
people who believe in copyright
people with disabilities on campus

academic administrative culture mechanisms of information distribution/firewalls
marital rape protection law and whether anyone knows about it and what they think of it
smog and smog devotees, why people stay in heinously polluted areas, what motivates them, is it a worthy sacrifice of health
bronchitis in los angelelenos---severity, prevelence and experience, coping mechanisms

identity celebrity democratized
via social nets
exploitation of egotism as diversionary
yet empowering
identity myth and myths

http://www.emorymi.com/holt.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_of_culture
new culture theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_of_culture
new culture theory
chinga loaded term freight contra
spiritually conquistador
lamilinche
viva mexico
hijos de la milenche
from guerrero

corina edu re: chicano

stickam for video conference
http://www.stickam.com/

Tuesday 23 March 2010

listening to malinowski and matrilineality wikipedia entries with text to speech technology.

CEDAW applications for matronymic equity interesting.

speaking to earic peters tomorrow at 9am re: fundraising for a trip and ASO guidelines.

study group 1pm wednesday

read about niger delta oil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_Delta
cultural relativism
ethnocentrism
emic etic

belief systems
experience
emic---insider

etic --outside

kinship and marriage
bilateral

unilineal
subdivides
matrilineal
patrilineal

know effects and differences
uncles sons husbands wives
endogamous
exogamous

polyandry
polygyny

begin with economic organization
of society
forage---hunter gatherer
kinship: bilateral neolocal nuclear monogamous

look at chart in textbook

industrial
neolocal bilateral monogamous

moka---kinship system---
do not regurgitate
big family
patrilineal

Saturday 20 March 2010

re:moka

the legal concept of consideration to make a contract valid.
exchange.
pertaining to educational fair use, regarding disabilities too!!!!
i think this is what the kartemquin film usc case was gearing towards
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/freedomtoteach

this application and advancement is useful for the ggoogle books project as well as the fact of blind students having to buy books that are already digitized.  this is so mean.

look at this
edu for all upcoming april conference
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/04/reshef

Educating the Many, Not the Few: A Digital Model for Change

Shai Reshef, University of the People

Tuesday, April 13, 12:30 pm
Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floor
RSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)
This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.
Named one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company magazine, entrepreneur Shai Reshef is tackling the education system that has failed millions.  The lack of universal access to higher education impacts not only the lives of individuals—their income, health and quality of life—but the societies in which they live—crime rates, social awareness and economic stability. In response to the global need for democratized education, Reshef founded University of the People (UoPeople), the world’s first tuition-free online university, providing quality, accessible higher education to those who have the desire to learn but lack the resources. Harnessing the free exchange of information online and multiple pedagogical models, including eLearning and peer-to-peer learning, UoPeople demonstrates that, if governments invested just a fraction of their collective education budgets, the whole world could go to university.
bartelt mentioned africa study abroad ambitions in my winter session of biological anthropology.
he decried the eurocentric world views of most edu systems.
on wednesday i asked, how much?
how much will it cost to get us there?
i've been meaning to for weeks.
eric hamilton and i decided we have to set our sights big.
even if it were only a few people, i bet we'd never be the same again.

i put the pay pal widget in the blog for demonstration.  it goes to my empty paypal account.
there might be other ways.  all the ASO shenanigans are only so amusing up to a point.  for one thing a lot of us are adults.
how to go about fundraising for the trip, and maintain some level of affiliation with the school is dependent on what they can do for us, and how much it helps.
there are huge issues a lot of us want to tackle regarding
environmental failure on LACC campus
homelessness in Los Angeles
and what else????
you tell me, and let's start making things happen.
we need to start the youtube account tyler from south africa and i discussed called "get clued in" for quick presentations on social issues discussed in anthro and beyond.
he has very critical information.
i need his contact info.
kv is an amazing photographer and graphic designer and maybe we can make photo shows on flickr, of poverty, or disabled perspectives, or eco-issues.
giovanna from sustainability is super tech-savvy and is very pro-digitization of lecture, videosteaming etc. and she's super smart about rights disclosures as well.
olivia has amazing leadership skills.
corrina has a fearless intellect.
i want her to help me become confident.
i think women, and people are trained to not have confidence in their great ideas.
she has great ideas.
well
gotta go to class
bye
well, i've been experimenting with blogger as a notetaking place.  it works really well for my real estate and property law professor tom duffy. http://duffysrealestatelacc.blogspot.com/
he's a great teacher.  i approached him to show him what i had so far, and tell him how great class is, and about how stanford and harvard make video and audio documentation and great learning websites.
he seemed a bit flattered.  i wish i had the IT set up with  a great camera, an Itunes University account, and could begin sharing his brilliance with the world.
but LACC can't afford adequate janitorial services, or the ink to print a syllabus.
i am only one person, and trying to increase my tech skills.
what i love about all the new ways of sharing information is that the possibilities are infinite.
i really love Dr. Bartelt's class.  i think the approach shows great intellectual fortitude.  i recommend his classes to everyone i talk to.  i think the information regarding racism, sexism, and the environment are critical, and need a larger distribution platform, and a wider audience.
i'm promising myself not to overwhelm him with emails regarding all my big ideas.
the idea of mp3s of lecture---as i have for lots of duffy's lectures---really helps me.
i'm an audio learner with weak eyes and eyestrain.
i love the music of the human voice, and both my parents were big talkers with great vocabularies and great ideas.
so, please forgive the hedginess of my notes, the positioning of the camera.
we're still running tests.

if anyone wants the rundown, look up
FISA
appropriation of image
image rights
disability rights
ADA
In-q-tel, the company that helped the NSA break FISA to spy on your calls with AT&T
look up the electronic frontier foundation suit

what is really important to remember is that we're talking EDUCATION.
as if it were a crime.
what i see in the future, is a world where all beings would be guaranteed enriching educational experiences suited to their needs.
when i found the office of special services at LACC, i was overwhelmed.
for one thing, as christie passman, discrimination ombudsman explained, the way it is said is "students with disabilities" not disabled students.
this is important.

i feel like i have a lot of disabilities.
sometimes when i look at the textbook the words swim, and i can't make my eyes go left to right.
but i can make my computer read to me, and it slows me down.
i can listen to lectures from oxford, cambridge, NY law, U penn, stanford, washington Law, Cato instititute, harvard, yale.
some of the most fabulous things i have found for free on the web.
that's what its there for i thought.
so i hope some of our teachers would realize how brilliant they are and how the information they have could be shared with people like my friend katie.
the information which will help civil rights, or environmental awareness, or cultural miscommunications at the heart of war.
we can't afford to keep it secret.
that's selfish.

in the future, i imagine that not having an mp3, blogged notes, text to speech convertibility, alternative testing for dyslexics, tutors, digital notetaking will be in violation of disability rights law.
that's my vision for the future.
this experiment is just a small contribution to a global movement of open data.
the digital divide at LACC leaves the disabled out in the cold.
that should be actionable.
it will probably take more lawsuits to make mp3/or digitally formatted lectures required.
the Hi Tech center scans books.
the copyright precautions force disabled students to purchase books they may not be able to use as such.
there are all kinds of injustices in any system.
thanks so much to kendis in algebra for his help
http://laccalgebra.blogspot.com/
and to professor bartelt for his enthusiasm for bridging the many digital divides.
thanks to susan matranga at office of special services for her tireless advocacy and enthusiasm for new ideas.
thanks to omri, who allowed me to accompany him to music class to serve as a fascilitator.
all the paid tutor and notetaker jobs have been slashed with the budget.
i propose we write grants for a pilot program to modernize the tech and wifi on campus, build a webhub, and create work for students who can add notes to a digital note archive using audio recorders in their laptops, bambuser streams, blogging skills, and cloud document hosts like scribd.com.
so that when we are gone, there will be a rich compendium of resources available for tutoring and alternative learning.
and if we can't get funding, lets do it guerilla style.
because knowledge matters, and students matter.

for:
estelle condra,  a brilliant writer, teacher and actress, who triumphed over macular degeneration, and continued to create.  thank you for introducing me to text to speech recognition, back in the nineties.
katie broadbent, my best friend, who has told me for 13 years of the pain and struggle of dyslexia, discrimination, condesention.  her audio and visual learning abilities exceed average, and she has amazing powers of recall for the oral traditions.  the obstacles towards higher education and employment have been immense.  she is also an amazing artist.
daniel wiertzema, an engineer who became paraplegic after a car accident.  despite spasms in his arms, he could carefully key on his computer.  he rode his wheel chair to the university to study, and was one of the most relentless optimists i ever knew. 

Thursday 18 March 2010

FISA alert, accompaniment

myopias

after wars population booms
post genocide
reminded of lacan's work captured by transcription
and not even satisfied re: multiple digitizations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act
and US govt defiance (for humanitarian aims)
yoo: ? at berkely
maybe i should write him to ask if a videostream (with no image) meets FISA?
yoo would know
digital torture defense
for the modern era

will i be hauled out of class in cuffs for disobeying FISA strict interp with bambuser

china population imbalances
one child policy

in defense of rape as marriage consideration
also CEDAW failures
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6098614.ece
better source
find the UN doc
also
reparation theory for intnl law
and the possible applications
better COURTS

last lect b4 exam
race is fiction

re: census
norway govt website also agrees
thanks kristefos for helping with ADA disability rts

before class spoke to thor re: poverty's impediments to edu
digitize notes here and consider scanning old bio anthro notes as well
bartelt recommends reading in general
we are third chimp

race application drew a human fig--they thought it was funny
enfants terribles/scapegoats
himsa
slander

ethnics became popular after wwII

social anthro
is valid term
aspects of relationships btw groups that consider themselves a group (or culturally distinct) and  . . . are so considered by outsiders
not in a vacuum

re:oku studies
how defined who are they
re: jewish maternal grandma stipulation---matrilineal?
and then also
power staying in the hands of men (past) and future bloggers (emoticon here)
by process of history
inscription
example
system of relationality
persepolis

survival dependency
(starving right now---hungry for my prop 65 defiant carcinogenic kettle chips)
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=65+acrylamide+attorney+general

wonder if the lead countertop behind me is actionable under prop 65
and if so who will help me?????

also re: conservative AEI think tank
tort reform
"post asbestos litigation shock disorder"---funny!

"arguably" mitigational linguistic effect

creating new jobs of the future
re: ADA norms
the notetaker blogger's payable role!!!!!!
we should demand this!!!!!
and then work study
it could help pass out of basic typing comp sci class

every single person is mixed

origin traditions

transpersonal
bantu bali
germans named everything with a b-sound
what is the german term for honored
heilige
extremely holy

marks of nationalism
relational to state
coterminous with cultural boandaries
truthout.org
democracy now re gender apartheid
pay scale

political movement
when cultural groups demand state
state can be ethnic

defies this norm:

politically tainted categories
critical perspective

more fundamental parameter
than rec

x=n/t
x=


usc collaboration
signologist
re:
superficial

i ask if there could be used a less graphic term so as not to dilute the effect?
synonym
natural law
himsa

linguistics of "A**hole"
a rather specisesist
double entendre could be inferred
journal of irreproduceable results

re double entendre
speak english!

veil paper: cover face with hands even eyes---what signifies in psych

tongue in cheek article
informed with good cause

fond memory
classical philosophy professor
review next class
exam breakdown

essay prompts
race ethnicity and nationalism as per today

sex gender and sexuality as desc. in paris is burning
economic and politic atmosphere defense

economics
reciprocity and redistribution of wealth in moka
on youtube
in five pieces

class on bambuser (soon to be bought by youtube as we inflate the value????)

culture theory
ethnic question

looking up stats re gender apartheid not sure if this is the braodcast he meant on DN
avail for educators