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  • Participatory Play: Digital Games From Spacewar! to Virtual Peace-

    Welcome to the HASTAC Scholars forum on digital games. Your hosts are Patrick Jagoda and Lindsey Andrews: HASTAC Scholars and graduate students in the English department at Duke University.

  • Academic Publishing in the Digital Age-

    Welcome to the forum on Academic Publishing in the Digital Age!  Building from an illuminating dialogue about Fair Use hosted by Veronica Paredes, our conversation will focus on the burgeoning field of electronic academic publication and the ways it is shifting established models of scholarship.  We hope that this discussion will allow participants to share their own experiences with digital publishing as writers and readers and to learn more about the possibilities and pitfalls of putting academic work online.  As such, we encourage contributions from those who have published electron

  • Fair Use and the Future of the Commons-

    Thanks to Erin and Steve Anderson!!!

  • Doing Media History-

    Thanks to Ana and Joshua for running the previous two HASTAC Scholars discussions, and welcome to the forum on doing media history! Since this discussion focuses more on issues of methodology, and thus has no clear “pros” or “cons”, I’d like begin a little bit differently. Below are three initial posts using specific examples that begin to explore how the present and the past relate to each other. The questions are open-ended, so please feel to share how historical examples have informed your own work.

     

  • Metaverses & Scholarly Collaboration-  There have been few technologies in recent years that have caused such a split in the academic world between advocates and dissidents as metaverses, particularly Second Life. In this short post that I expand on through a video blog post, I explore some of the main reasons offered by scholars who criticize the use of SL or other metaverses in Higher Education, as well as the reasons that some have embraced it.
  • HASTAC welcomes Howard Rheingold for a discussion on participatory learning-

    Howard Rheingold, technology writer and all around social media guru, joins the HASTAC Scholars for an online discussion about his the participatory classroom. He teaches Participatory Media/Collective Action at UC Berkeley's School of Information, Digital Journalism at Stanford University, and is a visiting Professor at the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University in Leicester, UK. Rheingold's vlogs can be viewed here, and he writes for SmartMobs, a widely popular blog inspired by his prescient 2002 book Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. Howard has been developing new tools and a new curriculum for his participatory classroom, and we're thrilled to have him here with us to discuss his thoughts on teaching social media. HASTAC Scholar Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz's Digital Arts and New Media program, interviews Howard and moderates the discussion. We encourage you to take part in the forum or add your own video to the widget below.

  • Convention protests- Place to discuss the protests at the Democratic and Republican conventions, especially as they relate to questions of power, relationship of the university to the state, and strategies and tactics that those of us in digital media can use.