A Review
Government, Innovation, Globalization and Economic Growth in China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011
Review By Jeffrey Barlow
At the Berglund Center we have long been interested in the relationship between the impact of the Internet and economic development [1]. While there is no doubt that there is a relationship between these two factors, its precise nature is difficult to quantify. Continue reading
By Clare Richardson-Barlow
Whether it’s waiting for delayed planes, avoiding bad movies, long cab rides from airports to hotels, or sleepless jet-lagged nights, my Amazon Kindle has more than paid for itself when traveling. It has prevented me from dying of boredom and aided me in work-related tasks I would be unable to otherwise complete. Continue reading
The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet
A Review
Review by Jeffrey Barlow
The impact of the Internet upon religion has been an ongoing study for us at the Berglund Center. Here we review an important new book, Robert Glenn Howard’s Digital Jesus, which tells us a great deal about the Internet, as well as much about one specific form of religion, Protestant Fundamentalism. [1]
Review By Jeffrey Barlow
The amount of information discussing China now found online has grown considerably over the last several decades. While we hope that this growth is creating a proportionately greater understanding of China, this does not necessarily follow. Understanding China has long been a serious challenge for Westerners in general and for Americans in particular. Continue reading
This is the second part of a recent article posted in Interface for March. [1] Because it is so highly opinionated on a topic regarding which many will argue, we treat it as an editorial and as a partial review of five books, each a nominee for the Edgar Allan Poe awards for best mystery novel in 2011. A sixth, Harlan Coben’s Caught was reviewed earlier.
Google has brought out applications and various cloud-related services so very quickly that it is sometimes quite easy to miss them. Google’s Ngram Viewer is such an application from late 2010.
Ngram is simultaneously a service, a site, an application, and a search device—all summed up in the name “Viewer”. It surveys the many millions of books in the humanities scanned and indexed to date by Google. The Viewer permits the user to scan for strings of up to five words found in any or all of the works in a search process largely defined by the user, and in a variety of languages, too.
A Review
Review By Jeffrey Barlow
This is a relatively old book intended to introduce highly evangelical Christians to the use of the web as a tool for proselytism. We review it less as a book to be read by others, though it may indeed be useful to some, than for what it tells us about religion on the web.
This is the fourth and concluding editorial in a series, “Peaceful Evolution in China and the World Wide Web”. [1] To summarize the arguments thus far:
In this fourth and concluding article, we examine the probable successors to the two most important posts in China, the Presidency, now held by Hu Jintao, and the Premiership, now held by Wen JIaobao. We argue here that important changes are occurring in China, and that due in large part to the Internet as a conduit for Chinese popular voices, democratic interests will be much strengthened in this new era. Continue reading