Posted in 19 May 2010 ¬ 18:13h.Jean-François Grenier
How do you make a popular social networking site utterly useless for a whole country and its 45 millions users? Let a religous court find a lame excuse to do it!
A Pakistani court has issued a ban on the social networking site Facebook after a user-generated contest page encourged members to post caricatures of Prophet Mohammed. [...]
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Posted in 27 April 2010 ¬ 19:26h.Jean-François Grenier
Forget peak oil. What about peak lithium, peak neodymium, and peak phosphorus?
When you really need something, it’s natural to worry about running out of it. Peak oil has been a global preoccupation since the 1970s, and the warnings get louder with each passing year. Environmentalists emphasize the importance of placing limits on consumption of fossil [...]
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Posted in 11 April 2010 ¬ 19:20h.Jean-François Grenier
Contrepied de Travail sur le blogue, présenté sur mon blog dans le cadre du cours COM-6032
Introduction
Dans cet essai, nous réagirons à un essai portant sur l’apparition des plateformes de publications électroniques. Nous les appelons habituellement « blogs », diminutif de « web logs ».
Nous commencerons par brièvement présenter cette technologie et la critique du premier essai, puis nous expliquerons [...]
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Blogging Homeworks, COM6032, Censorship, Communication, Economy, Future, Globalization, Internet, Medias, Public Relations, Technology
Posted in 21 February 2010 ¬ 12:39h.Jean-François Grenier
Introduction
Dans cet essai, nous discuterons de la convergence du numérique vers les téléphones intelligents. Nous commencerons par présenter cette technologie, puis nous expliquerons les liens entre celle-ci et le monde des communications publiques. Par la suite, nous critiquerons la situation avec le regard du public. Nous conclurons ce document en nous questionnant sur ce que [...]
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Posted in 12 February 2010 ¬ 17:19h.Jean-François Grenier
1. Nodar Kumaritashvili crash at the Vancouver’s Olympics.
A horrific crash during training for the Olympic luge competition, which is scheduled to begin Saturday, killed Georgian athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili.
The 21-year-old was thrown from the track and smashed his head on a metal pole at the Whistler Olympic Park.
Officials immediately closed the controversial track, which is known [...]
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Posted in 29 January 2010 ¬ 23:38h.Jean-François Grenier
Qu’est-ce que le déterminisme technologique?
Le déterminisme technologique (DT) est une théorie sociale réductionniste. Le réductionnisme étudie les systèmes complexes en les réduisant à des éléments simples et à leurs interactions, dans le cas présent la technologie et son influence. Il considère la technologie comme moteur principal du développement de la structure sociale et des valeurs [...]
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Posted in 27 November 2009 ¬ 11:49h.Jean-François Grenier
Being a french quebecer today’s the first time that i read about Black Friday, the “SHOPPING SPREE TIME” call so popular in America. Coverage of the event in incredible, just look at sites like blackfriday.info, it has a 3-days lifetime each year! That’s specialization at its best. This “holiday” presence in Canada so far seems [...]
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Posted in 16 October 2009 ¬ 10:33h.Jean-François Grenier
The defeat of communism 20 years ago was the most liberating moment in history. So why don’t we talk about it more?
The consensus Year of Revolution for most of our lifetimes has been 1968, with its political assassinations, its Parisian protests, and a youth-culture rebellion that the baby boomers [...]
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