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Gregory T. Donovan (CV)
PhD Candidate
Environmental Psychology
CUNY Graduate Center
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Monthly Archives: July 2007

young people: victims, criminals… red herring

While reading Walter Lippmann’s “A Preface to Politics” my attention was mainly drawn to his discussion of the red herring. The red herring — a metaphor used to describe the obfuscation of, or distraction from, a particular object(ive) — is portrayed by Lippmann (1913, p261) as both “pest” and “benefit,” as a political maneuver which [...]
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Engels on Nature

From the Dialectics of Nature: It is precisely the alteration of nature by men, not nature as such, which is the most essential and immediate basis of human thought.
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to catch a predator

Back in 2002, a school system in Tennessee paid Edutech Inc. a reported $131,590 to install CCTV surveillance cameras in its 7 schools. In at least one of these schools, the cameras were installed in the locker rooms. The recordings of 10-14 year-old boys and girls, which were produced from this covert surveillance, were [...]
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I am cow, not machine.

poster observed on east 9th street, NYC :: sent wirelessly via blackberry
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a reading list: exploring theory and practice

Embracing the so called ‘cybercity’ as a specific unit of analysis, my second doctoral exam reading list will explore how processes of education and citizen participation are transmuted by the cybercity and how these transmuted processes in turn produce and reproduce the cybercity. In order for this exploration to begin clarification must first be achieved [...]
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a research blog: open source, open process.

This research blog has been setup to assist me in preparing for my second doctoral exam. This blog will hopefully afford me a space where the scholarly content of my reading list can interact with popular culture as well as my thoughts and experiences. In addition, this blog will help semantically organize the information I’ll [...]
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