In our e-mail boxes this morning were no less than three messages announcing the new

In case you missed this news over the past month or so due to the continual onslaught of digital information, there has been a disturbing---to put it lightly---incident involving Twitter, its use b

Sadly I was not able to attend the HASTAC conference, but I wanted to post some information about a current project of mine...

As we now hear by some commentators that the "worst" of the so-called financial "crisis" "might" be over, we have to acknowledge the difficulty of squaring

As I was walking around campus today I saw that Shell Oil was holding a recruiting event on the Engineering Quad, the "Shell Campus Pit Stop Challenge". (See images below.) Evidently this was designed as a game or entertainment, involving, in their words, a "fast-paced, pit-stop-style event w

The power, or more precisely, pouissance, of media and the arts to respond to injustice and to those in control is well-known, even if it must be continually reaffirmed and re-created due to moves by the establishment.  Tactical responses rely on the unexpected, at least the unexpected as seen by establishment, in order to be effective.  These types of situations proliferate as cheap media technologies enter into formerly repressive situations.  An example of this is Malaysia, where I spent some time this summer.  While the nation profiles itself as a developing place, with a variety