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Ten Thousand Cents
Ten Thousand Cents is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using custom drawing tool, thousands individuals working in isolation from one another painted tiny part the bill without knowledge overall task. Workers were paid cent each via amazon's mechanical turk distributed labor tool. Total cost of the bill, creation, and reproductions available for purchase are all $100. The work is presented as video piece with 10,000 parts drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, new uncharted combination markets, crowdsourcing, virtual economies, and reproduction.
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GlobalBarometer.Org
How are people responding to transformation in countries lacking political stability and transparent institutions? Global Barometer surveys are nationwide random sample surveys in societies in transition. Since 1991 more than 250 public opinion surveys have been conducted. This website gives an overview of Barometer sample surveys of mass response to change in: Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and Russia (post-communist Europe) and Latin America. It provides links to organizers of Barometer surveys from Taipei to Cape Town.
TOPICS: Each questionnaires includes innovative measures of individual
behaviour and attitudes specially relevant in transition societies.
Governance, participation and democracy
Evaluation of institutions and corruption
Political participation
Safety from violence and theft on the street, at home
Civic culture
Poverty and prosperity
Micro-level data about participation in multiple economies
Economic expectations, comparisons: past, present, future
Relative affluence, getting by, destitution
Social capital and use of informal networks
Attitudes towards market economy, structural transformation
The Barometers consist of a data base with hundreds of thousands of interviews. We are committed to making information available to people living in the countries survived through public presentations, the media and the WWW. The data is also used for specialized seminar and reports for policymakers; in publications by research institutes, social science journals and books. It can also be used for teaching and training purposes.
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Mobile Hotspot Phones
Mobile hotspot phones are phones that also act like wireless internet routers. That means mobile hotspot phones can allow multiple users to use the internet as if they were connected to your home WiFi network. Since the service works on a portable or mobile phone, they are called mobile hotspot phones. Due to its mobility and personal internet cloud it is also referred to as a MiFi hotspot.
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