Maria Lefter

[Maria Lefter @LefterMaria1]

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Before Dr. McGregor's presentation, I always though traditional visual media spoke to me more than podcasts did. It seems like she changed my mind. The first thing I did as I got home was open my computer and start browsing the millions of different podcasts available.

[Maria Lefter @LefterMaria1]

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Wikipedia enables any willing individual to be a producer and disseminator of knowledge, therefore breaking social barriers and hierarchies. Nonetheless, a certain structure of power can be observed within its functioning as post-colonial knowledge is underrepresented.

[Maria Lefter @LefterMaria1]

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The Internet's own Boy, the biographical documentary film about Aaron Swartz, gave me chills. It made me reconsider the power of governments in restricting information from their own citizens for their own political agenda. Are we as citizens free to think anymore?

[Maria Lefter @LefterMaria1]

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In last year's summer school, I remember using Google Ngram as a digital humanities. It completely changed the way I saw research and computations as it was the first time I encountered a tool which calculated the frequency of a certain word in various articles.

[Maria Lefter @LefterMaria1]

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Apparently, I use the word "indeed" a lot.

[Maria Lefter @LefterMaria1]

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Getting ready for the Canadian winter at the MOA with @vic_constantin

[Maria Lefter @LefterMaria1]

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Photographs can create interdependent types of violence. Social, cultural, professional and moral violence appear when the said photograph translates an issue that is desired to be hidden. Violence often follows a certain pattern so that people become accustomed to it.

[Maria Lefter @LefterMaria1]

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The current legal climate seems to offer a monopoly to a money-centered copyright approach to knowledge dissemination. By not sticking to the framework, creative commons artists risk isolation from the copyrighted ones, stay unknown and stuck in an unviable alternative.

[Maria Lefter @LefterMaria1]

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Knowledge shouldn't be circulated when the the process of circulation contributes to dismiss the cultural differences of particular marginalized communities. Values need to be respected, especially for communities often suspicious of new methods of dissemination.

[Maria Lefter @LefterMaria1]

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Knowledge dissemination has a great role to play in contributing to the feminist cause. Since women are considered as consumers and not necessarily producers of knowledge, having knowledge dissemination platforms where women are leaders are primordial to the cause.

[Maria Lefter @LefterMaria1]

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Open access means inclusive and innovative access given to any individual seeking to broaden its knowledge. Open access can only be possible through the collaboration of governmental institutions setting legislations and groundbreaking companies using their expertise.

[Maria Lefter @LefterMaria1]

#ASTU260 bridging the KTA gap, one meme at a time...