By Jonathan Taplin: Move Fast and Break Things
— How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy.
Adult | Education | Humanities
Documentaries on Kanopy: The Illusionists.
“The Illusionists examines how global advertising firms, mass media conglomerates, and the beauty, fashion, and cosmetic surgery industries are changing the way people around the world define beauty and see themselves…”
Adult | Education | Humanities
Documentaries on Kanopy: Digital Disconnect.
“…the film traces how the revolutionary, democratizing potential of the internet has been radically compromised by the growing and unaccountable power of a handful of telecom and tech monopolies….”
“Even aimless journeys have a purpose.”
The world of literary journalism lost one of the greats last week. Tony Horwitz, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, died May 27, 2019, at age 60. Horwitz was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He is best known for what he called “participatory history” books about a variety of topics: the Confederate cultural legacy in the South;…
L-O-L-I-lolita…
When Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Lolita was published in America in 1958, it was a blockbuster. It continues to be both timely and controversial. Lolita works on multiple levels to give us an enduring literary window into the darkness of abuse and self-deception. At face value, it is the first-hand account of a predator, Humbert, and his…
Adult | Books | Education | Humanities
Homewood eServices: Adult summer reading
June 03, 2019 – August 04, 2019