Some folks in my department at the University of Michigan worked last summer with the Detroit Residential Parcel Survey, a huge effort to document the status of every single residential parcel in t

Two weeks ago, I was able to present at another regional version of THATCamp, the Technology and Humanities Camp unconference that originated at George Mason University.  Our version, THATCamp of Columbus, was graciously sponsored by the Ohio Humanities Council and the Center for Public History and Digital Humanities at Cleveland State University and hosted by Columbus State Community College. 

Following is my unfiltered liveblog of danah boyd's talk: "Youth Generated Culture: Growing Up in an Era of Social Media".  I hope HASTAC folks will find this a useful synopsis. You can also find out more about danah at her blog: zephoria.org/thoughts

danah describes her wor

The second issue of the new digital media and learning journal from MIT Press, The International Journal of Learning and Media (IJLM) has been published. This provocati

As we mentioned on the HASTAC blogs last week, you can now download or purchase a copy of the report entitled The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age, co-authored by Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg, with assistance from Zoe Marie Jones, our former colleague extraordinaire. Click to read the details from MIT Press ...

 

As I have previously announced on this blog, we at HASTAC are big fans of Twitter and have used it productively since October to reach out to new audiences, keep our finger on the pulse of the social networking world, and even make a few friends.

As a sort of followup to my blog post on internet access in rural areas, I have some thoughts on improving access for urban residents, spurred by this event, aimed at adivising the White House on how to best use the approximately $7 billion for broadband access included in the economic stimulus bill the President is about to sign:

Our hosts for this session are Cameron Neylon and Deepak Singh, who have themselves explored the many social networks developed especially for scientists and bring to us the question: Why aren't these more successful?  Some examples are Nature Network, MyExperiment.  Others?  Please add others that you know of, and your thoughts on them.

Our leaders in this session are PalMD and Abel Pharmboy.  I hope that these comments on this topic will be useful, as I have never blogged anonymously or under a pseudonym, but we are blessed with ma