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” Among its cargo: a Facebook / Internet.org satellite that was supposed to provide Internet access Facebook to African countries. Via the EFF : “Stupid Patent of the Month: Elsevier Patents Online Peer Review.” Shawn Graham responds to this patent on peer review by patenting Elsevier.

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Cultural hegemony and disruption

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Social media for example has achieved a remarkable success in eroding the power of previously elite media channels. One example is the encyclopaedia, long cherished as one of society's most important knowledge repositories. How does social media disrupt cultural hegemony? The police in this sense are a state apparatus.

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” The Chronicle of Higher Education on Elsevier “becoming a data company.” ” “The Culture Wars Have Come to Silicon Valley,” The New York Times pronounces , with a look at internal tussles between Facebook board members Peter Thiel and Reed Hastings. Khan Academy, for example, had $27.9

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Hack Education Weekly News

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On video games , for example – yes, that old canard. blog : “ Elsevier Collaborates with Hypothesis to Integrate Open Annotation.” ” Via Politico : “ Facebook ’s next project: American inequality.” President Trump has tried to blame the school shooting in Florida on everything but guns.