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HASTAC Scholars Lindsey Andrews & Patrick Jagoda have just launched our latest HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum on "Participatory Play: Digital Games from Spacewar! to Virtual Peace". Come join the discussion at http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forum/11-18-08Digital-Games!

Participatory Play:

Digital Games From Spacewar! to Virtual Peace

Forum open now at http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forum/11-18-08Digital-Games

 


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HASTAC Scholars Julie Levin Russo and Chris Hanson have launched our next discussion forum on "Academic Publishing in the Digital Age."  They will be joined by staff from the online journals Vectors and Transformative Works and Culture, and we hope you will come join the discussion as well!
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Our current HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum on Fair Use and the Future of the Commons is still up and active. I invite you to visit it--and contribute--if you haven't already. Hosted by Scholar Veronica Paredes and featuring Critical Commons, the forum not only addresses many important topics in this thorny area, but also provides a number of very helpful resources. With this week's Google Books settlement, it's very timely stuff!

Please also mark your calendars and help us spread the word about our upcoming forum on "Academic Publishing in the Digital Age" which will start this coming Monday, November 3. Led by Scholars Chris Hanson and Julie Levin Russo, this forum will build on many of the topics that have surfaced in the Fair Use forum.
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Fair Use

Veronica Paredes, a HASTAC Scholar from the University of Southern California, has just launched the latest HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum on "Fair Use and the Future of the Commons," featuring USC Professor Steve Anderson and the non-profit advocacy coalition Critical Commons.

Please come join the discussion!

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Fair Use and the Future of the Commons

 

Please join us for the next HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum on "Fair Use and the Future of the Commons," led by Scholar Veronica Paredes from USC and featuring the non-profit advocacy coalition Critical Commons. The forum will open for discussion Wednesday, October 22nd at www.hastac.org.

Doing Media History - Come Join the Discussion!

Submitted by Erin Gentry Lamb on October 5, 2008 - 8:30pm.
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How do you conceptualize the history of media?  What can media history teach us?  What kinds of cultural negotiations are involved in refashioning the past with new media? How does our own technological present affect the ways we define, interpret or even appropriate the past?

HASTAC Scholar Whitney Trettien had opened up the next HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum on "Doing Media History."  Come join the conversation!

Looking ahead - to the past!

Submitted by Erin Gentry Lamb on September 30, 2008 - 11:20am.
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The HASTAC Scholars Program invites you to participate in our next HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum, titled "Doing Media History: Archives, Ages, and the Accretion of the Past."  The discussion forum will be led by Whitney Trettien, a graduate student in Comparative Media Studies at MIT, and will open at www.hastac.org  on Monday, October 6.  Please come share your thoughts at www.hastac.org!

Second Life for Real? Come Join the Discussion!

Submitted by Erin Gentry Lamb on September 21, 2008 - 10:07pm.
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Have you had experiences using metaverses like Second Life in the classroom, or for collaborative research projects?  What do you think?  Are they brilliant, or are they bunk?  Come join the our newest HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum on "Metaverses & Scholarly Collaboration" led by HASTAC Scholar Ana Boa-Ventura!

As with our last forum with Howard Rheingold and Joshua McVeigh-Schultz on "Participatory Learning,"  we'll be running the discussion both "vertically" in a traditional text-based forum, and "horizontally" in a vlog format using the online video service Seesmic embedded in a widget by Sproutbuilder.  Come speak your mind!
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Thanks to the many of you who contributed your thoughts, questions and experiences, we had a fascinating inuagural HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum on "Participatory Learning" featuring Howard Rheingold and HASTAC Scholar Joshua McVeigh-Schultz.

I'm writing to invite you all to join in for our next forum, which will open for discussion this coming Monday, September 22, and will be facilitated by HASTAC Scholar Ana Boa-Ventura. The topic:

"Metaverses & Scholarly Collaboration"

HASTAC Scholars in the News!

Submitted by Erin Gentry Lamb on September 3, 2008 - 11:22pm.
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The HASTAC Scholars Program received a nice shout out on Duke Today with thanks to Andrea Fereshteh, Senior Writer in the Office of News and Communications. You can find the article here: http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/09/vlog.html