Submitted by gerrycanavan on Mar 01, 2010, 09:58 AM

Submitted by gerrycanavan on Jan 14, 2010, 04:46 PM

This semester I'll be teaching a Writing 20 here at Duke organized around Utopian science fiction from the latter half of the twentieth century: Star Trek, The Dispossessed, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, and Dollhouse. (A longer description can be found here.) In keeping with the themes of the course that consider the digital as a possible space for Utopia, I've decided to move from the Blackboard discussion forum to a public blog housed with Duke's new WordPress project.

Submitted by gerrycanavan on Oct 26, 2009, 05:08 PM

Hello! I'll be liveblogging Diana Taylor's address at Duke today, "The Digital as Anti-Archive?", part of the 2009 Provost Lecture series "The Future of the Past, the Future of the Present: The Historical Record in the Digital Age." Taylor is a professor in Spanish and Performance Studies at NYU.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 16, 2009, 04:25 PM

This posting from Japan comes somewhere in the middle of a night (jetlag rules!) in Osaka, before moving to Tokyo where I will be conducting several interviews for The Rewired Brain:  The Deep Structure of Thinking for the Information Age, the book I'm finishing on cognition and digitality and that Viking Press will publish in either late 2010 or early 2011. 

 

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 29, 2009, 06:23 AM
NaNatThis is an update from Week Three of "This Is Your Brain on the Internet," taught in Duke's marvelous ISIS (Information Science + Information Studies) program. There are fifteen students in the class, plus myself, TA Katy, and Teaching Apprentice Lindsey. The three of us are what I call "new style English teachers." That is, we're each savvy scientifically in different ways. Katy is a professional stage designer who is a tech wizard. Lindsey worked with primates as an undergrad. And the class members span the spectrum of just about all of the disciplines but with a quite high-level of involvement in computer science, engineering, and pre-med, in addition to strong language-skills, excellent reading, and inquisitiveness. In a typical class, as many as 12 or 13 students out of 15 will ask a question or venture a comment. Interestingly, no one has a laptop open in this class so I've never had to address an issue that many of my peers report in their teaching these days.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 18, 2008, 02:09 AM
When I lectutred last week in Italy on digital youth, someone asked me how I made the connection between digitality and neuroscience. That's an easy question and an extremely difficult one and the path from one to the other is: learning.