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  • Maria Perevalova
  • Url: http://media-maria.blogspot.com
  • Posts: 5
  • About the user: I graduated from Moscow State Linguistic University, interpreter department with specialization in Theory and History of Culture. I have working experience in informational and advertising agencies. Present time I am a student at University of Amsterdam, New Media MA programme

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Twitter and Simple Forms of Literary Expression

Maria Perevalova | 13 October 2008, 12:22 pm | tags: , , , ,

Twitter is the most popular platform for microblogging, where short text updates(up to 140 words) are posted and distributed by means of instant messaging, sms, web interface. Microblogging is next in chain of technological tools for communication that follows blogging, social networking and other cyber social “places”.

Facebook in a Socio-Cultural Aspect

Maria Perevalova | 11 October 2008, 9:16 pm | tags: ,

According to the statistics the age majority of Facebook users is 19 albeit there are thousands of users aged more than 60.

Facebook for Fun

Maria Perevalova | 11 October 2008, 8:36 pm | tags: , , ,

Facebook is the second largest social network after Myspace.com in U.S. with around 60 million members. But it is the fastest-growing and best-known sites on the Internet today and taking into account its great expansion overseas it became number 1 since may 2008.

PICNIC 08 – What will Google do?

Maria Perevalova | 26 September 2008, 10:23 pm | 3 comments | tags:

On the last day of Picnic 2008, on Friday at Zuiveringshal West Gisel Hiscock, the Google’s EMEA business development director appeared with the company’s newest initiatives and strategies.
Gisel Hiscock outlined company’s scheme of acting opposing the traditional approach –the so called “the mother ship model”. Within this concept a headquarter builds products and when the company grows and goes international they outsource the low-cost work and starts translating and shipping out internationally. “This is not going to work for us”, states Gisel Hiscock.

Book Review: Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity, by Louis Armand

Maria Perevalova | 20 September 2008, 2:18 am | 2 comments | tags:

In this work the thread of eternal philosophical thoughts embracing the Greek schools of thinkers and sciences of the 20th century, psychoanalysis, cybernetics, semiotics, etcetera, leads to a new theoretical approach in questioning the dichotomy of existence and consciousness , the science of man and what literacy and language is in a new spatio-temporal environment of the information age.