Public Intellectuals or Intellectual Publics?

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Feb 08, 2010, 09:31 AM

Is it the job of intellectuals to speak to the public?  Or is it the responsibility of the public to put forth the effort to understand complex and important ideas by intellectuals?  Did the proponents of cultural literacy dumb us down?

Defeating site loyalty to build new online communities

Submitted by Amanda Visconti on Oct 25, 2009, 01:16 PM

Between returning to Facebook (after a hiatus of frustration with its poor interface) and reading Randall Stross's Planet Google, I've been thinking a lot about how the success of many web ventures depends on a snowball effect, combined with brand loyalty.

Interactive Audience Measurement

Submitted by etussey on Sep 13, 2009, 11:47 AM

In my first blog post for the HASTAC community I have offered my analysis of the interactive audience measurement game, RewardTV.

Bloggers' Bible

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 20, 2008, 07:40 AM
If you click on "blogging" in our folksonomy on the right on any HASTAC blogging page, you will bring up about a dozen postings on the ethics, intellectual property interests, communication possibilities, and other issues basic to blogging. Great for reading, great for teaching to your student loggers.
blogging fog
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