Thursday, April 28, 2005
Ipod, Therefore I Am...
And they wonder why people hate academics:
"The participation gap creates techno-envy, where the kids who are locked out of participation in the culture covet those tools and devices that are considered essential to being a young person." -- Henry Jenkins, director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explaining the increase in the thefts of iPods and cellphones in New York subways.