Category: Tech
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Mob 2.0 – Internet, Culture and the Economy
Add caption Book: The Cult of the Amateur Author: Andrew Keen Publisher: Currency (2007) The digitally enabled democratisation of information and creative content has been widely lauded as progressive. Most current discussions loosely converge around such catch-phrases as Web 2.0 revolution, ICTs and digitisation. One is either in the loop or finding their way in.…
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Internet – Friend or Foe of Creative Writing?
Arnold “So Profound” Chirimika “The poetry of the earth is never dead.” When John Keats, absorbed in the mesmeric notes of nature, made this observation, he had certainly not foreseen the love-hate relationship of the Internet and creative writing. 130 years on, literature is still alive and viral, not so much through the hedge choruses…
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Zimbabwean Books Need Digital Reflow
Ndiko Kupindana Kwemazuva The digital revolt is in vogue. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are vastly effacing traditional life patterns. It is a virtual new world. The orbit of the hourglass prefigures a dynamic, new order of computer-generated possibilities. Tragically, though, the changes are taking shape out of the rubble of the traditional scheme of…
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Repackaging Indigenous Languages for the Digital Age
Maidei Language is the principal apparatus in the laboratories of culture. It is the interface by which a culture finds expression, transmission, diffusion, sustenance, development, perpetuity and regeneration. When language slouches towards obscurity, culture, as the corporate repository of knowledge, values, meanings, experience, customs, relations, roles, attitudes, beliefs and intellectual achievement, faces extinction. The patriarch…
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UZ to Introduce Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is set to become one of the flagship programmes at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ), Vice Chancellor Professor Levi Nyagura revealed on Wednesday. Advanced degrees in nanotechnology will soon be offered by the UZ School of Pharmacy with the import of securing high social and health impact. “At the University of Zimbabwe our…
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