@21540Michael @21540_Becky what I like about celebrations is that are great landmarks to signal the passing of time and not take things for granted. Otherwise, years fly by really quickly, and before you notice it, you go belly up :)
@21540Richard There are several old spiritual and metaphysical schools of thought that have been presenting this idea for ages. The material world is another way for "All that is" (the Divine, God, etc) to know itself from different perspectives.
@21540Stacie@21540_Emma I look at it from a positive light: we are always inside a bubble anyways and algorithms create, at least, an ever-expanding bubble.
@21540_Becky @21540_Emma When you learn about the library systems in many other countries, you can help but realize that the Canadian one is extraordinary.
@21540_Leslie The fact that everyone is included creates an implicit tier-based system: on one side, “the ignorant, the ill-informed, the unauthorized” and, on the other side, “experts,” who know the “truth” and “who should be empowered to enlighten the rest of us”(Dean, J. (2003).
@21540Marni Dean claims that “the Net is nothing like a public sphere”. This argument is based on the understanding that “consensus” is “the goal of discussion in the public sphere”, a status which is never achieved on social networking sites (SNS) (p. 100).