MacArthur

At another MacArthur meeting, I realized yet again how these Digital Media and Learning Initiative meetings are never "just another meeting."

Here's a reblog of danah boyd's apophenia posting on the exciting publication of the MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning and the new journal, the International Journal of Learning and Media. Follow the links, buy the books or download the essays free.

 

On 22 June, 9am PST (noon EST), MacArthur Foundation President Jonathan Fanton and Second Life CEO Philip Rosedale will be chatting about the role of philathropic foundations in Second Life. Or, more accurately, their avatars will be there . . . and we're all invited too! All kinds of businesses are setting up shop in Second Life, but this is the first time a major foundation has sent its presidential avatar there. For details, go to http://spotlight.macfound.org/

At the last MacArthur-sponsored forum on "The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age," we talked about historian Pat Seed's digital projects that began in 1991 (the official birthyear of the internet). Her most recent on early Arabic maps of Africa made me rethink the religious-basis for early intraAfrican slavery . . . and that made me think about the religious persecutions in Europe. A new paradigm always generates new paradigms. The Inquisition as "tribal warfare."