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The news van kit struck her as really quite different. She does not have children, so the change in LEGOs represented by the Friends line was startling: “In 1981,” explains Giordano, “LEGOs were ‘Universal Building Sets’ and that’s exactly what they were…for boys and girls. Toys are supposed to foster creativity. But nowadays, it seems…
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anniewerner: “We can’t assume loving a boy band prevents a girl from thinking critically about her experiences and the experiences of others. Don’t assume teenagers can’t understand complex social theory. Pay attention to teenage girls; they just might change the world.” — Ferguson, One Direction, Tumblr, and Why You Need to Pay Attention to Teenage…
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We can’t assume loving a boy band prevents a girl from thinking critically about her experiences and the experiences of others. Don’t assume teenagers can’t understand complex social theory. Pay attention to teenage girls; they just might change the world. Ferguson, One Direction, Tumblr, and Why You Need to Pay Attention to Teenage Girls —…
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We can’t assume loving a boy band prevents a girl from thinking critically about her experiences and the experiences of others. Don’t assume teenagers can’t understand complex social theory. Pay attention to teenage girls; they just might change the world. Ferguson, One Direction, Tumblr, and Why You Need to Pay Attention to Teenage Girls —…
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Kevin Sutcliffe, Vice’s head of news programming in Europe, says mainstream TV networks wrongly assumed young people weren’t interested in foreign news. The problem “was the worn-out approach, with newscasters, tight packages, and live feeds from Washington. The world is a rough, raggedy place, and young people want journalism that reflects that. They want authentic…
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The Humane Representation of Thought from Bret Victor: Closing keynote at the UIST and SPLASH conferences, October 2014. Preface: worrydream.com/TheHumaneRepresentationOfThought/note.html A beautiful discussion for where we need to aim our ideas for the future of interaction with technology. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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A Letter from our Editor-in-Chief Tom Lutz
lareviewofbooks: All of us at the Los Angeles Review of Books felt great sadness last week at the news that The New Republic was falling apart. TNR had been losing $3 million a year, but had, people thought, been rescued by an internet billionaire. There isn’t a serious magazine editor out there who wouldn’t like an internet billionaire to drop like manna…