Archive for April, 2007
comment, please.
part of our goal with this project is engagement with what is being posted about online and thought about offline. visitors or writers, both are on a level playing field on our site. we have heard the line “only undergrads” enough to disbelieve it, so don’t be shy: none of us really knows what’s [...]
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Meet Rahel
Rahel , a pseudonym, is a first generation Ethiopian-American. She views the expatriated Ethiopian community in the context of a huge social network. And, as a member of that community she understands many currents that run through the community. Most notably, Rahel agrees with my hypothesis that Ethiopians move to DC for [...]
Filed under: Culture, Ethopians and the DV, Sven, Washington DC, immigration | 2 Comments
The Gun Game
I am so pained to feel inspired to write another post about death, but after Monday’s events…I feel resigned to do so. Thoughts and prayers to VA Tech’s campus will not heal the wounds, but there is little else we, collectively as a populace, can immediately do. Stunned, shocked, lost, scared, worried, troubled…enraged. You name [...]
Filed under: Activism, Megan, Politics, State Power, Washington DC | 4 Comments
Technology/Apathy
Last week I attended a panel discussion called: “I remember AU When… The Age of Protest.” The panelists were three graduates of American University from the 1960s and ’70s. After eating Swedish meatballs, checking out the slide show, and listening to The Grateful Dead’s “Casey Jones,” they gave a somewhat interesting presentation on the [...]
Filed under: Activism, Culture, Digital Divide, Sean, Technology | 3 Comments
A slight deviation from topic
As many of you are aware, this past weekend was Easter, and so for purposes of appeasement (appeasing my conscience mostly; I’m sure God has no tally on my church attendance- or lack thereof!) I attended services. Given my family-at-large’s current preclusion towards Orthodoxy, I went to the Pascha services at [...]
Filed under: Annie, Hipsters, Theory, internet party photography | 1 Comment
A Crack in the Cage
“Being so pitilessly prone toward the absolute, the ideal and knowing that lawyers and law courts are witnesses to the imperfect state of our civilization, temporizing adjusters of society’s ill-adjustment and yet whose occupation, largely viewed, though transient, tentative, unbeautiful, amid trouble and contention, is still noble in good offices and lavish of sacrifice in [...]
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Finally! A Happy Coincidence
I have recently run into a young woman on American University’s quad, and she has offered to help me with my project. She overheard me discussing my project with another AU anthropology student, and she got excited at the word “Ethiopian”. In return, I got excited at her excitement. It turns out [...]
Filed under: Ethopians and the DV, Experience, Racial Inequality, State Power, Sven | 3 Comments
A Laptop for Every Kid
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Am I just going to far with my April stress-induced cynicism? A little optimism wouldn’t kill me. But then again I might just be right in thinking One Laptop Per Child is full of it.
The OLPC Foundation is a non-profit that has been around since January ‘05. Their goal is to create a laptop [...]
Filed under: Digital Divide, Maine Laptop Initiative, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, Sean | 12 Comments
Questions of Method, pt. 2
“Hip is a culture of the young because they have the least investment in the status quo.” -John Leland in Hip: The History
Filed under: Annie, Culture, Hipsters, internet party photography | 4 Comments
Forgotten Faces
A full day of classes in your last semester can leave anyone a bit worn and emotionally edgy. ‘Twas my state as I exited the newest addition to campus, Katzen Arts Center. I was immediately struck by the exhibit on display in the foyer; the multimedias screamed with intriguing pain, the unnecessary title hidden [...]
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Sven’s Third Post
My survey has garnered one response. His pseudonym is Debebe, and he’s a 27 year old male. Most excitingly, he came to the US on the Diversity Visa Program. Tezeta is friends with this young man. He’s lived in the US for three years and one year in the DC area. [...]
Filed under: Culture, Ethopians and the DV, Sven | 3 Comments
typically off topic
Well now this isn’t a real post in the sense of the project, but the spread o’ info is always important and relevant so….
Karl Rove at American University
Our campus newspaper may not be the best thing in written form, but check it out.
Is it a sign of the times when our ruling administration is scared [...]
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Sven’s Second Post
Since February 12, I have been in contact with my friend, Tezeta (a pseudonym, means “memory” in Amharic). She has been helping me as my primary contact with the Ethiopian community in the DC area. Yet, I try not to ask too much of her because she is very busy, and our friendship [...]
Filed under: Culture, Ethopians and the DV, Racial Inequality, Sven | 3 Comments
Questions of Method, pt. 1
It’s easy enough to announce that I’m embarking on an “investigation”, if you will, of internet party photography. “Well, what kind of internet party photography do you mean?” is usually the first question people ask me. “Like, pictures of parties on Facebook?” I clarify: hipster internet party photography, specifically. Evoking the “hipster” adjective usually garners [...]
Filed under: Annie, Culture, Hipsters, internet party photography | 1 Comment
Fairly Just
I apologize for my first post straying significantly from my self-introduction. Since our project is somewhat of an experiment, it is necessary for each of us to address our feelings towards moving ideas into an online format. Just to be repetitive, I’ll push (and thank!) for responses. But now I will move into my area [...]
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