Literature/cases request: Obligations to know (e.g., RTFM)
Hello everyone, I'm interested in cultural norms and expressions of an "obligation to know." In the hacker realm this is well developed: clue (cluestick, clue-by-four), asshats, newbies (newbs), RTFM (Read the "Fine" Manual), lazyweb, etc. In minority (e.g., race, sex, gender) studies there's the notion of privilege, *-centrism, and the idea that it is not the obligation of the oppressed to have to educate the ignorant majority. In popular culture, there's "Topic 101." Can you offer any other examples? Do you know how I might trace the linguistic origins of "101"? (How and when did it first become popular?) Can you point me to any related literature? (For example, Coleman's (2012) discussion of RTFM in her recent "Coding Freedom," or Lori Kendall's (2008) "'Noobs' and 'chicks' on Animutation Portal.") If so, many thanks! -- Regards, Joseph Reagle http://reagle.org/joseph/ (Perhaps using speech recognition, sorry for any speakos.)
The hashtag "old" is often seen on french tweets (and it makes sense the "timeline" aspect make it a challenge to avoid redundancy. Guillaume GRIPIC / Celsa Paris-Sorbonne <http://www.celsa.fr/recherche-equipe.php> Revue Audimat <http://www.les-siestes-electroniques.com/Revue> In Paradisum records <http://inparadisum.bandcamp.com/> 2013/1/22 Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011@reagle.org>
Hello everyone,
I'm interested in cultural norms and expressions of an "obligation to know." In the hacker realm this is well developed: clue (cluestick, clue-by-four), asshats, newbies (newbs), RTFM (Read the "Fine" Manual), lazyweb, etc. In minority (e.g., race, sex, gender) studies there's the notion of privilege, *-centrism, and the idea that it is not the obligation of the oppressed to have to educate the ignorant majority. In popular culture, there's "Topic 101."
Can you offer any other examples? Do you know how I might trace the linguistic origins of "101"? (How and when did it first become popular?) Can you point me to any related literature? (For example, Coleman's (2012) discussion of RTFM in her recent "Coding Freedom," or Lori Kendall's (2008) "'Noobs' and 'chicks' on Animutation Portal.")
If so, many thanks!
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From: Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011@reagle.org> Subject: [Air-L] Literature/cases request: Obligations to know (e.g., RTFM) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:32:06 -0500
I'm interested in cultural norms and expressions of an "obligation to know." In the hacker realm this is well developed: clue (cluestick, clue-by-four), asshats, newbies (newbs), RTFM (Read the "Fine" Manual), lazyweb, etc. In minority (e.g., race, sex, gender) studies there's the notion of privilege, *-centrism, and the idea that it is not the obligation of the oppressed to have to educate the ignorant majority. In popular culture, there's "Topic 101."
characteristically this 101 was the one which i had to look up. so i am not really popular. :D
Can you offer any other examples?
#suckless IRC channel (of the suckless.org software community): "X: this is not kind of comunity that lubes itself up to get into someones ass" "Y: Somehow people manage to get very stunted that they just might not be target audiance of something" if that's good for you, "elitism" / "elite" may be good key word. maxigas, kiberpunk -- * * |metatron * * |research * * |unit FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166
The language used to describe art does pretty much the same. The keyword "elitist" reminded me of an analysis by Alix Rule and David Levine on the so-called "International Art Language". They screen a large set of art-related press releases and find a peculiar lexical, grammatical and stylistic features. For example, superfluous abstract nouns or the excessive use of the suffix "-ization" . Perhaps this could help. http://canopycanopycanopy.com/16/international_art_english Regards, Olga Zero 2013/1/22 Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011@reagle.org>
Hello everyone,
I'm interested in cultural norms and expressions of an "obligation to know." In the hacker realm this is well developed: clue (cluestick, clue-by-four), asshats, newbies (newbs), RTFM (Read the "Fine" Manual), lazyweb, etc. In minority (e.g., race, sex, gender) studies there's the notion of privilege, *-centrism, and the idea that it is not the obligation of the oppressed to have to educate the ignorant majority. In popular culture, there's "Topic 101."
Can you offer any other examples? Do you know how I might trace the linguistic origins of "101"? (How and when did it first become popular?) Can you point me to any related literature? (For example, Coleman's (2012) discussion of RTFM in her recent "Coding Freedom," or Lori Kendall's (2008) "'Noobs' and 'chicks' on Animutation Portal.")
If so, many thanks!
-- Regards, Joseph Reagle http://reagle.org/joseph/ (Perhaps using speech recognition, sorry for any speakos.) ______________________________**_________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/** listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org<http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org>
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