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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

Museum 2.0

This year, the American Association of Museums annual conference was in Los Angeles (my hometown). Finally, museums as "facilitators" of visitors' own experiences and interests. It featured mariachis, an extraordinarily odd panorama , and a fabulous beer hall with superb french fries.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

Such information is concealed by big tech cabals who rely on microwork sites to facilitate projects of a secret nature. 9 Only the latest strategy in the militarization of urban space, facial recognition has unleashed a police armageddon on poor neighbourhoods, most notably in the vast carceral cities of Los Angeles and Shanghai.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

New computer and internet technologies would facilitate direct connections between individual users anywhere in the world, using web- based platforms provided by companies like Craigslist, eBay, Airbnb, Uber, and Grubhub. It was the early stirrings of what we now call the “platform economy.”. payday loans), subpar products (e.g.,

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