media

CFP: "The Past's Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities"

Submitted by pdp on Jul 06, 2009, 11:01 AM

Call For Papers

The Past?s Digital Presence: Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities

A Graduate Student Symposium at Yale University

The Future of Digital Media

Submitted by Celeste Fraser Delgado on May 23, 2009, 08:39 PM
I've seen the future of digital media, and it's nonprofit

Duke U Press Publishes Study by Obama's Mama

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on May 04, 2009, 02:03 PM
It hasn't been very often, if ever, in American history that the mother of the President of the United States was a scholar and an academic.  Congratulations to Duke University Press for publishing Against the Odds:  Village Industry in Indonesia, by the late S. Ann Dunham.  Duke U Press Editorial Director Ken Wissoker notes:  ?It is a great privilege for Duke University Press to be publishing this remarkable work by Ann Dunham.  Her global perspective and obvious respect for other people?s intelligence and self-direction is a model we all can learn from. Her children clearly have!?

The First Panel at HASTAC III: Innovations in Participatory Learning, Social Change, and Digital Democracy

Submitted by Jentery Sayers on Apr 20, 2009, 05:07 PM

Today's first session,  "Innovations in Participatory Learning, Social Change, and Digital Democracy," at HASTAC III started the conference (which, per Cathy Davidson's introduction to the session, is the biggest HASTAC conference yet) with some brief introductions of, and examples from, four 2008 Digital Media and Learning competition winners.  Here, I just want

Howard Rheingold on Being Physical

Submitted by ramsey.tesdell on Apr 17, 2009, 12:52 PM
Howard Rheingold is a recipient of a Digital Media and Learning Competition ?Knowledge-Networking? award for his Social Media Classroom.

Digital Youth and Participatory Learning

Submitted by ramsey.tesdell on Apr 17, 2009, 12:11 PM
Mizuko (Mimi) Ito is a Research Scientist at the University of California Humanities Research Institute, and is working on the development of a Digital Media and Learning Research Hub at the University of California, Irvine.  Dr. Ito is a cultural anthropologist who studies new media use, particula

Day Two of the DML Winners Presentation

Submitted by ramsey.tesdell on Apr 17, 2009, 11:18 AM

After a full day yesterday of talks, presentations, breakout sessions, and even a laptop orchestra competition, day two kicks of with even more excitement in the air. The crowd is even more comfortable with each other, and even friendlier after spending most of the day and night together. When MacArthur said ?welcome to the family,? I wasn?t entirely convinced. After spending just one day with their staff and their grantees, I know exactly what they mean.