Steve Cisler on Tue, 8 Jul 2003 05:51:34 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> Product Placements in Learning Environments |
I just finished writing a paper entitled, "Product Placements in Learning Environments: From Keystone-Mast to Microsoft" a sort of history of technology companies making donations to schools, tech centers, and telecenters. It begins in the 1920's and concludes with a new initiative by Microsoft in developing countries. As someone who has been engaged in these types of donations I thought this would be a good time to reflect on the trade-offs and expectations about this kind of corporate giving and whether you should be suspicious of geeks bearing gifts. http://eduaction.net/productplacement.html I'll be offline and camping in Canada for a week or so, but your comments are welcome. Steve Cisler # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net