Catchphrases help us hold our intellectual head up high, socially. We can use buzzwords and Catchphrases as a mark of our understanding, our expertise, insight, intuition and general intellectual prowess. Some catchphrases were not really uttered but simply invented – – and then carried through the ages, delivered diligently from eager sender to ecstatic receiver. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cellphones’
What digital divide?!
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Narratives, So satisfying, TheoriesTags: Android, Bill Bryson, Buzzwords, Cellphone, cellphones, Chrome, digital divide, digital existence, international submarine communications cables, iPhone, Linux, mobile phone subscribers, Nokia, Patrick Henry, Population Division, Portio Research Mobile Factbook, satellite technologies, Symbian, total world population
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Condensation narratives on the comeback trail
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, NarrativesTags: A Change of Hobbit, Arthur C. Clarke, cell phones, cellphones, chocolate alphabet, condensation narrative, content for mobile devices, Ernest Hemingway, Félix Fénéon, flash fiction, Haiku, Harlan Ellison, Jewish Haiku, news in Three Lines, Nouvelles en trois lignes, Sci-Fi, Short stories, short-short stories, The Anarchist Encyclopedia, Ursula Le Guin, very short short-short stories, Wired
Last week I did a presentation at one of our major universities. I spoke about the need to create content specifically for mobile devices. I will reflect more on this in the coming weeks, but in the meantime, as I was flying back home after the presentation, I mulled over the notion of small/short units [...]