Barry Wellman wrote:
PS: An amusing piece of ageist writing is getting edited out of a paper that Jennifer Kayahara and I are writing, "Searching for Leisure". The editor has asked that we take out the term "MacGyver" on the grounds that young scholars would be unaware of that great 1985+ TV show where Richard Dean Anderson saved himself weekly from dire situations by do-it-yourself tricks. If you're under 40, see: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088559/
That applies to young scholars in the US, since MacGyver or any other US-American show made (makes) it with great delay into the German or French market (dubbing, localisation etc.), so you would definitely reach a young scholars' audience in such countries like me (Germany grown up, early 30). Johannes -- Johannes Strobel Assistant Professor - Educational Technology Concordia University, Montreal, Canada 1455 DeMaisonneuve West Montreal, QC Canada H3G 1M8 jstrobel@education.concordia.ca Phone: (1) 514 848 2424 x 7338 http://education.concordia.ca/~jstrobel/ "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman