Locks, Dreads, or Jata (Hindi) is a kind of hairstyle that portrays different meaning and belief. In today’s society, having dreads for some people is something cool, rebellious or spiritual and for others is associated with stereotypes such as smoking marijuana, being dirty or looking unclean. Flora Adeyemi decided to grow her locks and in the process learnt that the significance of locks can vary for others, from cultural to spiritual reasons.
Huffduffed from http://www.prx.org/pieces/67997
Surf’s up, share prices down: Australian surf-wear label Billabong was once an essential of the cool, coastal lifestyle and a global retail success story worth, according to some analysts, up to $5 billion. After a series of questionable strategic decisions in a tough retail climate, this week the company was subject to a takeover offer of just $287 million, the share price hitting a record low of less that 54 cents. But is Australia’s surfing culture also changing at rapid pace, making it tricky for the big brands? Surfing journalist Stuart Nettle believes the market is now more fractured and complex.
And, Margaret Thatcher’s influence on music, film, TV and fashion spanned three decades; is it still being felt? Two veteran observers of the Thatcher era, Lynden Barber and Stuart Coupe look back at the highs and lows.
Guests:
Stuart Nettle is Editor of surfing website Swellnet.
Lynden Barber is a freelance film and music writer.
Stuart Coupe runs Laughing Outlaw, an Independent Record and Management Company, and has been a music writer.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/thelist/list-april-12/4626134
Tagged with radio:programme=the list popular culture surfing music film tv
When gold was discovered in Australia in the 1850s, it led to a gold rush. Prospectors came to the country from all over the world, with the largest foreign contingent coming from China.
Tagged with history australia chinese bendigo central victoria 19th century gold mining culture
RSA Keynote 7th Feb 2013; 18:00 (full recording including audience Q&A)
Technologist and writer Ben Hammersley explores the role of the internet and digital technologies in today’s workplace.
As social media, mobile devices, constant communication, online sharing, and open collaboration become the norms in the rest of our lives, the traditional workplace is failing to adapt.
How do our traditional workplace models conflict with our new internet-driven expectations of how we might live and work to our full potential, and how might companies and organisations learn to adapt in the 21st century?
Speaker: Ben Hammersley, Prime Minister’s Ambassador to TechCity, contributing editor, Wired UK, innovator in residence, Goldsmiths, University of London and author of ‘64 Things You Need to Know Now for Then’.
Chair: Matthew Taylor, chief executive, RSA.
Tagged with event:lecture=rsa technology work culture society business
Before Fred and Ginger, there was Fred and Adele, two siblings from Omaha who shared a 27 year theatrical career, and revolutionised the dance and song world of the 1920s. The Astaires were adored by audiences, feted by royalty, and courted by social elites everywhere they went. From the start Adele was the more natural performer, while Fred had to practise hard to hone his trademark timing, but ultimately his skills surpassed those of his sister. Originally broadcast on 27/6/12.
Guests:
Kathleen Riley, Classical scholar, modern theatre historian, and the author of The Astaires: Fred and Adele
Music:
Track: Sweet Music
Artist: Adele and Fred Astaire
Album: Night and Day: Fred Astaire, Complete Recordings Vol 2 1931-1933 Naxos 2001 Nostalgia Naxos 8.120519
Composer: Dietz & Schwartz
Description: Song from ‘The Band Wagon’ by Dietz & Schwartz
Track: The Bobbitt and the Bromide
Artist: Adele and Fred Astaire
Album: A Portrait of Fred Astaire, 1997 Music Collection International. Gale 414
Composer: George & Ira Gershwin
Description: Song from ‘Funny Face’ by George and Ira Gershwin
Track: Fascinating Rhythm
Artist: Adele and Fred Astaire
Album: A Portrait of Fred Astaire, 1997 Music Collection International
Description: Song from ‘Lady, Be Good!’ by George and Ira Gershwin
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/fred-and-adele-astaire/4415600
Throughout history, maps have always been as much about their creators and their worldviews as about reproducing an accurate replica of the world. Early maps were also about the unknown and how to display the borders of the known world. Monsters in illustration were often used to represent what lay beyond the edge of the world, and cartographers competed to create the best and scariest monsters on their creations.
Professor and BBC documentary presenter Jeremy Brotton has produced a study of the cultural values embodied in maps and collected them in a book called A History of the World in Twelve Maps.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/a-history-of-the-world-in-maps/4491276
There have been unconfirmed reports that the priceless and historic manuscripts housed in the Ahmed Baba Institute in Timbuktu have been destroyed by Islamists fleeing French-led Malian troops. Riason Naidoo was director of the Timbuktu manuscripts project for six years and talks about their history and significance.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/timbuktu-manuscripts/4491688
These days, many teenagers live half their lives on social media sites, and they’re writing the rules as they go. One online trend 16-year-old Radio Rookie Temitayo Fagbenle finds disturbing is something she calls "slut-shaming," or using photos and videos to turn a girl’s private life inside out.
There are countless websites, Facebook pages and Twitter handles that are created to shame girls online, many are literally called "exposing hos." When Temitayo logs in to Facebook her newsfeed is often inundated with sexually explicit photos and videos of other teenage girls that are posted, commented on, and shared countless times by her peers. Once these images make it online the repercussions can haunt a girl far beyond the schoolyard.
"Once it gets to a social media network it’s over for her life," one of Temitayo’s classmates said. She gathered a group of girls from her school to talk about why so many teenagers, especially girls, harass each other online. "Girls do it to themselves," another girl explained, "half the time we can’t even blame guys."
But another student pointed out that a lot of girls don’t even know they’re being recorded. She said, "it’s not fair that a guy can actually hide his phone, have sex with you and record you, and then show it to his friends, like, ‘Yo, look, look, look!’"
That nightmare scenario was a reality for another one of Temitayo’s classmates. When the young girl was only 14, her boyfriend filmed a sexually explicit video of her without her knowledge and then posted it on Facebook and other social media sites. "He was going around holding his head high saying, “’Oh well, I was able to do this with her.’ He gave me a bad name," the girl said.
Schools have had to take on a new role in the age of social media.
Some students screenshot the cyberbullying they see online, print it out and bring it to their teachers as evidence. Erica Doyle, the Assistant Principal at Temitayo’s school said, "Once we’re dealing with digital media that is sexually explicit that has been captured and shared with the public, that actually now is a criminal matter."
One of Temitayo’s male friends was arrested in the 8th grade for emailing a topless picture of his girlfriend to hundreds of students at their middle school. Temitayo asked him if he did it out of malice, but he brushed the question off and said he just thought it would be cool. "I regret doing it to her but still, I didn’t have to go to jail. Porn websites do it everyday."
Tagged with bullying culture society adolescence social media sex
How is the vision we have of our digital lives matching the reality? In a digital age who are we connected to and who are we not connected to? Should we re-think how evenly distributed access to the Internet really is? Two leading Internet scholars talk about the ways in which people are engaging with the digital world — from Australia and Africa to the suburbs of Boston and Shanghai and all points in between.
Guests:
Ethan Zuckerman, Director of MIT’s Centre for Civic Media and co-founder of Global Voices.
Dr Genevieve Bell, Intel Fellow, Intel Labs Director, Interaction and Experience Research
Further Information:
RiverBend Books- Meet The Author Information (http://www.riverbendbooks.com.au/product/648347-MeettheAuthorAntonyFunnell-rbe11sep)
SABRENet (http://www.sabrenet.edu.au/)
Ethan Zuckerman’s blog (http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/)
MIT Centre for Civic Media (http://civic.mit.edu/)
2012 RN Big Ideas Program with Genevieve Bell (http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas/what-does-our-technology-future-look-like3f/4003568)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/many-internets2c-many-lives/4241874
James Bridle asks how computer networks will affect cultural memories.
Tagged with bbc four thought technology culture memory twitter:user=jamesbridle
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