Re: nettime Evgeny Morozov and the Perils of Highbrow Journalism

2014-10-19 Thread gab fest
On 10/19/14 3:01 PM, John Hopkins wrote: On 19/Oct/14 08:53, David Mandl wrote: It seems clear that the New Yorker is no longer home of the best fact-checking/copyediting humankind can achieve. It takes time and energy to impose order on a system. Clearly many many segments of the 'developed

Re: nettime Evgeny Morozov and the Perils of Highbrow Journalism

2014-10-18 Thread gab fest
On 10/17/14 6:30 AM, d.garcia wrote: The Morozov article is indeed very misleading. There is nothing in the New Yorker headline to indicate that this is anything other that an article full of the ideas and research by Morozov himself. A headline does not usually have a dual function as a

Re: nettime Evgeny Morozov and the Perils of Highbrow Journalism

2014-10-16 Thread gab fest
Organized envy sounds like a fair characterization. But the organization is small and centered on a few friends and associates of Medina. Then there are others engaging in opportunistic one-offs on Twitter and Facebook, at various levels of engagement. It's far from clear that Morozov has made