{"id":84,"date":"2004-04-20T21:16:28","date_gmt":"2004-04-21T04:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2004-04-20T21:16:28","modified_gmt":"2004-04-21T04:16:28","slug":"live-from-the-thesis-trenches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/20\/live-from-the-thesis-trenches\/","title":{"rendered":"Live from the Thesis Trenches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, I amuse myself:<\/p>\n<p><i>Wilson and Heeks further their argument by saying that the reason that the traditional media do not get as much attention as ICT [Information and Communications Technologies] does is that &#8220;they are just not &#8216;sexy&#8217; enough to capture decision-makers attention.&#8221; Again, this line of thinking is not substantiated at all &#8212; the authors did not provide a definition of the term, &#8220;sexy.&#8221;If by &#8220;sexy,&#8221; the authors mean that ICT has a certain appeal that these traditional media do not, then they are absolutely right. ICT represents a fundamental change in the way that information is disseminated.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(Page 41, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocf.berkeley.edu\/~cfarivar\/senegal\/thesis_draft.html\">Thesis Draft<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, I amuse myself: Wilson and Heeks further their argument by saying that the reason that the traditional media do not get as much attention as ICT [Information and Communications Technologies] does is that &#8220;they are just not &#8216;sexy&#8217; enough to capture decision-makers attention.&#8221; Again, this line of thinking is not substantiated at all &#8212; the authors did not provide a definition of the term, &#8220;sexy.&#8221;If by &#8220;sexy,&#8221; the authors mean that ICT has a certain appeal that these traditional&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-school","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-1m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}