Leah Culver is totally hot

  • Young people are learning to read through Harry Potter (?)
  • “Wizard” rock – bands that base their music on the Harry Potter books
  • The Harry Potter Alliance – enabling children to make a difference in Darfur.
  • In an information society, kids play with information (as compared to 400 years ago when kids played with bows and arrows)
  • This is obviously a room full of Obama junkies.
  • Young people online use the language of “we,” while adult politicians normally use the first person.
    • So, are we all becoming a collectivist society? Wow, Ayn Rand would love this shit.

emery / 2008-03-08 20:25:13

Leah Culver is totally hot, part II

  • Why is this dude going on about Obama now? Apparently collectivism is the new thing.
  • In the 50’s, bowling leagues served as a tool for social interacton
  • So, is the online community leading to the demise of bowling?
  • PWNED!
  • Now, suddenly, this dude is plugging his application
  • The percentage off young people today producing media is astronomical compared to any other time – “Soulja Boy”

emery / 2008-03-08 20:32:44

Opening Remarks

  • Why the invocation of tragedies?
  • What’s wrong with the young people of America these days?
  • Hugh Forrest, Henry Jenkins (MIT) are speaking
  • Allowing collaboration in a meaningful way!!
  • “The Wire” beats out “Fear Factor”
  • Amending the map of the underground lair from “Lost” through online collaboration
  • How can we harness the creative energy of people who only recive a minimal amount of intellectual stimulation through their professions?

emery / 2008-03-08 20:09:20

Leah Culver's not really that hot

  • “By using a different word, we’ve eliminated the problem”

emery / 2008-03-08 20:46:45

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