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Tablets can help elderly cross the 'digital divide'

Posted: 27 May 2015 08:30 AM PDT

One way to help the elderly cross what's known as the 'digital divide' is the use of tablets, those smaller, lighter, easy-to-use computers that seem to be taking the place of laptops.

Social media and archaeology: A match not made in heaven

Posted: 27 May 2015 07:24 AM PDT

The social web is bound up in relations of power, control, freedom, labor and exploitation, with consequences that portend real instability for the cultural sector and for social welfare overall. Only a handful of archaeologists, however, are seriously debating these matters, which suggests the discipline is setting itself up to be swept away by our unreflective investment in the cognitive capitalist enterprise that marks much current web-based work.