Ok I admit, I kinda dropped the blog these days, good for a month. Classes started and I was a bit taken over by the mass readings each week.
following courses I have chosen:
- Introduction to Information Studies : course 1st year exciting. The idea is to revisit the various developments that led to the age of information (such as technological but also social printing or public libraries) and the Internet, copyright, standards, open source, ... Prof. Bob Frost delivers his lectures like a one man show , he is funny and brilliant. He knows very well France for a year studying at the EHESS and did his thesis on EDF (Alternating Currents: Nationalized Power in France, 1946-1970 ). Why not? At each course, he never misses an anecdote related to his life in France. For example, it fell on the emergence of Minitel, developed by France Telecom to avoid repeat of its directories permanently. It was mostly an excuse to discuss the role of porn and ULLA 3615 (I remember the posters on the side of the highway) in the development of the Minitel and generally in the evolution of information technology. My teacher "TD" is also French and is studying for his part in American history. The
course website is very rich, the teacher puts a ton of info online, all these slides, all readings of the week, and ... the video podcast of the week so I will keep warm during snowstorms.
- America and Middle Eastern Wars: The still a strong personality behind the amphitheater. Professor Juan Cole is a kind of national celebrities, witnessed by the enormous Wikipedia article on the . He is frequently interviewed in national media when it comes to the Middle East. He lived in Beirut during the civil war, his stories remind me of the excellent film Waltz with Bashir with his anecdotes of war, his memories of the bombing. His job is quite risky since it can freely criticize the positions of American camps, Israeli, Arab and a university where, on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, rather talk back to argue. But it is so accepted that nobody dares to stir to spread his propaganda. He has a fascinating blog on the Middle East (English), Informed Comments , updated daily.
- Comparative Studies in Religion and Politics: I chose this course first to understand why Americans are so religious and try to explain the proliferation of churches in the New World. A five minute walk from my house, I can go to the Mormons, the Quakers (for whom prayer is to be silent for an hour), Orthodox Jews, Conservative and Reformed, congrétionalistes, Anabaptists, Pentecostals, Catholics the evangelists ... All this happy world engages after a competition for the salvation of our souls! The idea of my teacher and many scholars in religion to explain the astonishing level of belief of Americans, it is this kind of supermarket of religions that are the U.S. cities. With a very high level of religious freedom, the churches are dedicated to their religious goods agree with the expectations of market share in the Hereafter. In short, this course is interesting, I would return several times in the blog to tell you these fanatics who roam the streets of the New World.
- Computer Mediated Communication : During a fourth year of Internet communication and its impact on human relations, media, society, ... Not necessarily aware of the latest developments, my teacher is excellent for giving us the theoretical basis for understanding the Internet and new media. In this course, I'll do a research project on the social network of Seesmic video conversation developed from San Francisco by Loic Le Meur , a famous french blogger. If you have an account or participate in Seesmic, leave a comment to tell me so I can start conversations. Soon, I'll start respond to video in different subjects with complete strangers. I think the findings of my research project may be interesting in terms of self-inhibition due to video chat, relationships between different members of the Seesmic community and especially the future of such a project.
common denominator in all my classes: massive amounts of reading and hard work, and writing papers, this is the price that you are part of "leaders and best" as university calls his students.
following courses I have chosen:
- Introduction to Information Studies : course 1st year exciting. The idea is to revisit the various developments that led to the age of information (such as technological but also social printing or public libraries) and the Internet, copyright, standards, open source, ... Prof. Bob Frost delivers his lectures like a one man show , he is funny and brilliant. He knows very well France for a year studying at the EHESS and did his thesis on EDF (Alternating Currents: Nationalized Power in France, 1946-1970 ). Why not? At each course, he never misses an anecdote related to his life in France. For example, it fell on the emergence of Minitel, developed by France Telecom to avoid repeat of its directories permanently. It was mostly an excuse to discuss the role of porn and ULLA 3615 (I remember the posters on the side of the highway) in the development of the Minitel and generally in the evolution of information technology. My teacher "TD" is also French and is studying for his part in American history. The
course website is very rich, the teacher puts a ton of info online, all these slides, all readings of the week, and ... the video podcast of the week so I will keep warm during snowstorms.
- America and Middle Eastern Wars: The still a strong personality behind the amphitheater. Professor Juan Cole is a kind of national celebrities, witnessed by the enormous Wikipedia article on the . He is frequently interviewed in national media when it comes to the Middle East. He lived in Beirut during the civil war, his stories remind me of the excellent film Waltz with Bashir with his anecdotes of war, his memories of the bombing. His job is quite risky since it can freely criticize the positions of American camps, Israeli, Arab and a university where, on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, rather talk back to argue. But it is so accepted that nobody dares to stir to spread his propaganda. He has a fascinating blog on the Middle East (English), Informed Comments , updated daily.
- Comparative Studies in Religion and Politics: I chose this course first to understand why Americans are so religious and try to explain the proliferation of churches in the New World. A five minute walk from my house, I can go to the Mormons, the Quakers (for whom prayer is to be silent for an hour), Orthodox Jews, Conservative and Reformed, congrétionalistes, Anabaptists, Pentecostals, Catholics the evangelists ... All this happy world engages after a competition for the salvation of our souls! The idea of my teacher and many scholars in religion to explain the astonishing level of belief of Americans, it is this kind of supermarket of religions that are the U.S. cities. With a very high level of religious freedom, the churches are dedicated to their religious goods agree with the expectations of market share in the Hereafter. In short, this course is interesting, I would return several times in the blog to tell you these fanatics who roam the streets of the New World.
- Computer Mediated Communication : During a fourth year of Internet communication and its impact on human relations, media, society, ... Not necessarily aware of the latest developments, my teacher is excellent for giving us the theoretical basis for understanding the Internet and new media. In this course, I'll do a research project on the social network of Seesmic video conversation developed from San Francisco by Loic Le Meur , a famous french blogger. If you have an account or participate in Seesmic, leave a comment to tell me so I can start conversations. Soon, I'll start respond to video in different subjects with complete strangers. I think the findings of my research project may be interesting in terms of self-inhibition due to video chat, relationships between different members of the Seesmic community and especially the future of such a project.
common denominator in all my classes: massive amounts of reading and hard work, and writing papers, this is the price that you are part of "leaders and best" as university calls his students.
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