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Conveying images of the modern African-American experience through music is an idea as old as jazz itself. Recent years have seen a diminishing of the cold, hard appraisal of reality that marked the work of such greats as Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Jackie McLean. Geri Allen continues and updates this tradition of combining passionate music with commentary on the world around...
...Duke University senior Parker Hobson knew ``painfully little'' about computers and modems, let alone the Internet, when he decided last September to take a course called 2001: A Media Odyssey. Like several of his classmates, he had never even used E-mail before. After 14 weeks of training under the direction of new-media journalist Katherine Fulton, however, Hobson and his 15 classmates were changed forever. From skeptical techno- Philistines, they had been transformed into fully rated Internauts, ready and eager to navigate the digital future. As he finished creating a home page on the World Wide Web, Hobson admitted...
Though the quick pace of change ensures that Duke's 2001 is little more than a stopgap remedial course for the time being, Fulton's students will nonetheless graduate with valuable basic knowledge of the modern tools of communication. Soon after the new millennium rolls around, however, such a catch-up Odyssey will probably be unnecessary -- at Duke or anywhere else. By that time it will have become the 21st century equivalent of that 1950s relic, Typing...
...heard the experts talk about two-way media, explored online services and debated the merits of CD-ROM technology. ``It's going to be like a geologic upheaval,'' Redford said. ``We're going to have to sit and watch as the pirates of the high seas lock ships and duke...
Wonks Political junkies duke it out on the Capital Connection, while current-events generalists visit Time Online -- both on AOL. CompuServe's Rush Limbaugh message boards regularly draw a crowd. Specialized areas exist on the Internet for every imaginable viewpoint, from alt.society.anarchy to alt.politics.clinton...