links for 2005-08-29

• The End of University?
  Can universities "survive the combined blows of technological obsolescence, legislative underfunding, rising costs, moral browbeating, and declining students lured away to the new, perhaps more efficient, and less costly alternatives?"
  (tags: university cyberspace future education)
• Middle East Diasporas on the Internet
  "Electronic capitalism is already fostering new creoles of the Information Age in the form of new interpreters and practices of interpretation that fall between and combine characteristics of preexisting domains."
  (tags: globalization culture cyberspace)