Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Mar 07, 2010, 12:21 PM

This is a reblog of political science professor  Wendy Brown's important piece on the relationship between public education and democracy, given on the CA capitol steps during the "Educate the State" rally.  Pass it on!

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Dec 10, 2009, 09:31 AM

Choice, in our Webby world, may be one click away.   Representative, elected democratic policy-enactment is a far clunkier, compromised, and beset process.  Pundits in early America worried that the novel would make readers "unrealistic" in their expectations for government.   Should we be wondering about those issues now, too?

Submitted by Michael J Kramer on Sep 22, 2009, 03:09 PM

Lots of good conversation about "Democratizing Knowledge in the Digital Humanities: Making Scholarship Public, Producing Public Scholarship" in the first HASTAC Scholars Forum.

Submitted by admin on May 01, 2009, 12:00 AM

(This is a re-post of Elizabeth Gardner's article featured in Purdue News.)

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Mar 23, 2009, 08:36 AM
If I have been blogging less frequently on the Cat in the Stack HASTAC site, it is because "This Is Your Brain on the Internet" has a blogging requirement and the comments there are so interesting and the conversations so rich that I've been spending much of my blogging time reading and posting to the class. I let them vote on whether they wanted their blogs private for the class or public to the world and they asked for private and, for some, even that has been hard. At least one very smart student in the class really doesn't like public internet documentation of his ideas at all. And I empathize with that, even though, as a lifelong writer, I've long ago given up on that issue. In any case, I've been blogging every few weeks, giving readers on the HASTAC network a taste of how this amazing class is going.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Nov 07, 2008, 04:57 PM
What if all the brilliant Web 2.0 organizing and energy of the campaign could be part of democracy? What if social networks were built into governance? What if our ideas really mattered? That is idealistic, to be sure, but who ever heard of so much promise so soon. Check out http://change.gov/ and smile some more.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Nov 06, 2008, 02:33 AM
eremiah Owyang, whose blog is Web Strategy by Jeremiah, posted these numbers on November 3, his comparative analysis of the social networking of Barack Obama's campaign and John McCain's and their relative followers. Pretty interesting! Here's the link for the blog posting that is filled with comments, more links, and analysis.  Bottom line:  Of course Obama won!

http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/11/03/snapshot-of-presidential-c...

Submitted by Mechelle on Oct 19, 2007, 12:41 PM
'Smart mob' tech spurs student activism