anomalous - conundrum - utilitarian - misnomer - vehement - tumult - jettison - repertoire
misnomer (Skirky, 83)
"The catchall label for this material is "user-generated content." That phrase, though, is something of a misnomer. When you create a document on your computer, your document fits some generic version of the phrase, but that isn't really what user-generated content refers to."
vehement (Shirky. 112)
"First, it became much easier to create initial versions of articles. The second effect, which they had not anticipated, was swift and vehement objection from their own advisory board."
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ReplyDeleteConundrum (Shirky, 202)
ReplyDelete"Meetup also lists a Parents and Kids Playgroup, which describes a much larger class of potential members than Stay at Home Moms does, but the Parents and Kids group is significantly less popular. This is one of the essential conundrums of social capital-inclusion implies exclusion."
Anomalous (Shirky 244)
ReplyDelete"The most popular projects, with millions of users, are in fact so anomalous as to be flukes."
Utilitarian (Shirky 194)
ReplyDelete"The assumption that communications tools are (or will someday be) a good substitute for travel assumes that people mainly gather together for utilitarian reasons of sharing infor mation."
Repertoire (Shirky 157)
ReplyDelete"They were built into the network on which e-mail is built: the internet. The internet is the first big communications network to make group communication a native part of its repertoire."
Tumult (Johnson 160)
ReplyDelete" The topic was one that had long interested urban theorists, most famously in Louis Wirth's classic essay from 1938, 'Urbanism as a Way of Life,' which argued that metropolitan living led toward social disorganization and alienation, the social ties and comforts of smaller communities breaking down in the tumult of the big city."
Jettison (Johnson 62)
ReplyDelete"Inspired by the early hype about telecommuting, the advertising agency TBWA/Chiat/Day experimented with a 'nonterritorial' office where desks and cubicles were jettisoned, along with private offices"