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Latest from 'HASTAC on ning'

There is a growing community of HASTAC enthusiasts on the ning social networking site, "HASTAC on ning." Read some of the community's latest blog and forum posts below:

Latest from 'Shaping Youth'

Turn Down the Media Volume!
Shaping Youth: A forum about media and marketing's influence on kids:

2006-2007 In|Formation Year Archives

Latest from the Spotlight Blog

The MacArthur Spotlight Blog is your source for insights into the ideas and questions shaping the future of digital media and learning. Latest Posts:

About HASTAC

HASTAC is a virtual institution, an entirely voluntary consortium of leading researchers and nonprofit research institutions worldwide. Its primary members are universities, supercomputing centers, grid and teragrid associations, humanities institutes, museums, libraries, and other civic institutions. HASTAC members have been co-developing software, hardware, and cyberinfrastructure systems since early 2003. Members have developed tools for multimedia archiving and social interaction, gaming environments for teaching, innovative educational programs in information science and information studies, virtual museums, and other digital projects. HASTAC’s mission is to promote expansive models for thinking, teaching, and research.

To become a part of the HASTAC network and contribute to Needle, one only needs to register as a user on the HASTAC website.