technology

Speaking about digital youth in the U.S. to university students at the University of Genoa and to women in the Associazone Italo Britannica in Chiavari was a fascinating experience across cultures and generations.

Some more thoughts on e-publishing. I'm for it (yes! of course!) but my pet peeve is thinking any new technology will solve problems that it cannot possibly solve. False expectations can actually limit potential. Yes, to e-publishing. No, to over-promising what it can accomplish at this historical moment (who knows what it might be able to accomplish in the future).

New media, old mourning

More thoughts on e-publishing

"The Future is Now" and, guess what, it's an English Department! Watch the video prepared by the Department of English at Rutgers University on the New Humanities. Chair Richard Miller addresses the question: how do we educate our students for success in a Web 2.0 world?

HASTAC was founded on the idea that the humanities, the sciences (social and natural), the arts, and technology are all needed if we are going to think through the implications of a digital future. If there are "Eight Ways to be a HASTAC leader," there are hundreds of ways to contribute to HASTAC's intellectual agenda.

As many of you know, Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg have been working on a project entitled ‘The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age’ that explores the possibilities (and challenges) that have arisen as new technologies change the way we learn.

I'm going to take a week's breather from blogging . . . everyone needs a break sometime. Before I go, I am reposting an Op Ed piece I wrote for "Under the Gargoyle," the back page of the Duke Alumni Magazine, July-August 2007.

Akihibara is the electronics capital of Tokyo, if not the world. It is also a hangout space for otaku, and Maid Cafes . . .

The In|Formation Year is over . . . we enter the Year of the PodHall