True story: a friend told me how she invested a large amount of money in order to advertise her product on a fairly central website. The campaign bombed and my friend queried the veracity of the site owner’s claim that his site is a popular place of convergence: “you cannot tell me that your site [...]
Posts Tagged ‘George Orwell’
Making your own bed: are there limits to professional responsibility?
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Narratives, TheoriesTags: 1984, Animal Farm, charge my per exposure, charge per click-through, charge per per conversion, choice-criteria, Ease of use, el-bizarro, Fair price, George Orwell, get a foot in the door, Harvard Business School, Healing power, High quality, James Hattefield, Kindle, Modularity, Narakesari Narayandas, New York’s Monroe College, Pittsburgh Pirates, The Lawyer’s Paradox, Trina Thompson
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Life at Fahrenheit 451
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Learning from others, Narratives, TheoriesTags: ALA, ALAhead to 2010, Amnesty International, And Tango Makes Three, book burning, Boris Pasternak, civil liberties, David Lean, Doctor Zhivago, dystopia, dystopian society, Equitable Access to Information, Fahrenheit 451, François Truffaut, freedom of expression, George Orwell, Guy Montag, Index on Censorship, intellectual bigotry, Intellectual Freedom, Ireland’s blasphemy law, irrepressible.info, Judy Blume, Julie Christie, National Coalition Against Censorship, NCAC, Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, Ray Bradbury, recorded knowledge, The American Library Association, Web Censorship all around the World, World Press Freedom Day
As a teenager, I literally stumbled upon François Truffaut‘s powerful interpretation of Ray Bradbury’s 1953 book Fahrenheit 451. I went to see the movie simply because it featured Julie Christie, the woman who invaded my pubescent dreams as a blonde Russian siren named Lara in David Lean‘s adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s epic Doctor Zhivago. On [...]
Big Brother: shovel or snowman?
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Learning from others, Narratives, TheoriesTags: 1984, Airstrip One, Big Brother, Big Brother is watching you, consumption, corrective editing, dystopia, dystopic, e-Justice, Frank Watson, George Orwell, Google apologists, Google bashers, Google radar. Shovel or Snowman, Googleator, Googlephobia, Ninety Eighty Four, Oceania, Orwellian villain, political domination, Search Engine Watch, techno-panic, The Wikipedia Review, Winston Smith
Googling “Big Brother” returns 43,500,000 results but Googling “big brother” Orwell removes all but 623,000 results. Big Brother is a character in George Orwell‘s novel 1984 (aka Ninety Eighty Four.) Published a year before Orwell’s death in 1949, the book has a clear doom-and-gloom (dystopic) view of future society. Orwell perceived a future in which [...]