Poverty and Society
=== Poverty and Society:
Remembering the Poor and the Aesthetic of Society http://www.island94.org/2010/01/the-poor-the-dead-and-god-are-easily-forgotten/
Poverty is Participation: http://www.island94.org/2008/07/poverty-as-the-singular-moral-challenge/
Poverty, Participation, Practice, Imagination, and Exploration http://www.island94.org/2008/09/exploring-poverty-participation-practice-imagination-and-exploration/
=== The Poverty Experience:
Poverty is Poison (Paul Krugman): http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/opinion/18krugman.html?_r=1
The sting of poverty: What bees and dented cars can teach about what it means to be poor - and the flaws of economics http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/03/30/the_sting_of_poverty/
The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach: http://www.island94.org/2009/12/academia-on-the-experience-of-poverty/
=== Communication and Poverty:
Progressive Terminology for Discussing Poverty http://www.island94.org/2008/04/progressive-terminology-for-discussing-poverty/
Caltech scientists find first physiological evidence of brain's response to inequality http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-02/ciot-csf022310.php
Obama and Tea Partiers battle for our Brains (George Lakoff): http://www.truthout.org/obama-tea-parties-and-battle-our-brains57089
JFK accuses media of sensationalism, triviality: http://www.island94.org/2010/05/jfk-accuses-media-of-sensationalism-triviality/
Self, Language and Consciousness: http://www.island94.org/2009/02/self-language-and-consciousness/
=== The Nonprofit Organization:
A structural definition of nonprofits http://www.island94.org/2008/09/what-is-a-nonprofit-a-structural-definition/
Why Nonprofits are Tax Exempt: http://www.island94.org/2008/09/why-are-nonprofits-tax-exempt/
Charity, Mercy and Sin: http://www.island94.org/2009/10/charity-mercy-and-sin/
Social Work is Women's Work so We don't Care: http://www.island94.org/2009/10/social-work-is-womens-work-so-we-dont-care/
Nonprofit Capacity Building: the motion of gifts: http://www.island94.org/2009/10/the-motion-of-gifts/
Typology of Social Giving Transactions: http://www.island94.org/2010/06/typology-of-social-giving-transactions/
=== Personal Agency
Principles of the American Cargo Cult (Klausler): http://puna.net.nz/archives/Social/cargo%20cult.html
Conclusion of Life, Inc (Rushkoff) http://www.island94.org/2009/08/good-advice-to-live-by/
The ladder of Participation (Arnstein): http://www.island94.org/2009/10/we-participate-they-profit/
Self-actualization to Neo-Liberalism (Rushkoff) http://www.island94.org/2009/08/from-self-actualization-to-neo-liberalism/
Leaders and Privileged Voices: http://www.island94.org/2010/04/leaders-and-privileged-voices/
=== Media and Technology:
Embracing diversity (James Burke) http://www.island94.org/2009/12/axemaker-conclusions/
Close to the machine: Cybernetics and technocracy (Turner): http://www.island94.org/2007/11/close-to-the-machine/
Media and Radical Technology: http://www.island94.org/2009/07/media-and-radical-technology/
Is social media for social good (Read the comments too: eg. "at what point does changing the lives of individuals/families via Service X become a change in society?"): http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2009/03/sxsw-social-media-for-social-good-bbq.html
Californian Ideology http://www.alamut.com/subj/ideologies/pessimism/califIdeo_I.html