Submitted by lindsey.arthur on Feb 24, 2010, 01:17 PM

Michael Weschs talk at the CHAT Festival opened my eyes to how little I know about the internet.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Nov 16, 2009, 08:39 AM

What was different about HASTAC from other Digital Humanities organizations in 2002 is we were about the first organization to embrace Web 2.0 and social media as learning platforms.  We immediately grasped the idea that technology as an affordance would always be limited, but thinking and working together, even across boundaries and especially across boundaries, would allow us to blow old and stale and partial paradigms out of the water.    . . . 

About 5000 unique visitors each week come read and write and think along with us now at HASTAC so something is happening here, and we know the HASTAC Scholars are among the leaders in a new way of rethinking what we do and how we can think and learn together.

 

Submitted by Ruby Sinreich on Oct 28, 2009, 10:33 AM

Yesterday I was invited to be on a panel speaking with a gathering of Christian publishers at Duke's Divinity School. As an introduction, I gave my standard presentation about the five aspects of effective networks, but to make it more relevant to this audience, I started with two seminal works ab

Submitted by Matt Straus on Sep 20, 2009, 11:40 AM

Math has invariants. Humanity has...?

Submitted by Amanda Phillips on Sep 18, 2009, 08:35 PM

With that in mind, I've been conducting research to see how other academic institutions have been representing themselves on some of the other major networks. I expected to find some innovation here and there, maybe a few major players that have some really great ideas and would serve as raw materials for a patchwork masterpiece.

I did not expect one single university to dominate the entire field. Has anyone been watching those Aggies lately??

Submitted by Ruby Sinreich on Aug 07, 2009, 01:03 PM
This week I was honored to be a speaker at the inaugural Ignite Raleigh. This event gave 15 people the chance to pitch an interesting idea to the crowd at Raleigh's Lincoln Theater. The catch: you have 5 minutes and 20 slides in which to do it. In other words: "enlighten us, but make it quick." Some of you (including Cathy and Steve) will notice a very strong resemblance between this format and the Japanese Pecha Kucha.

Submitted by Ray Uzwyshyn on Jun 08, 2009, 10:02 AM
A remix of a digital video originally done for a HASTAC Forum (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) on digital scholarship. http://uwf.edu/ruzwyshyn/Raysvideos/digitalscholarship.html Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQS6jpMvcwI

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Apr 11, 2009, 03:24 PM
A very appealing and informative video "The History of the Internet"

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Feb 17, 2009, 11:37 AM
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey needs YOU to help them identify the shape of galazies far, far away.  They have found that the eyes of experts see what experts see--they need all of us to help them describe and label what we see.  It turns out, collectively, we see more and better than they . . . and can do, together, in a few months what would take them hundreds of years.  If you can identify socks in the sock drawer, you can help label galaxies and contribute to exploration and understanding of the Universe.  It takes twenty minutes . . . and your reach will be limitless.  The original Galaxy Zoo resulted in dozens of scientific papers and inestimable new knowledge.  Contribute now to Galaxy Zoo 2:  https://www.galaxyzoo.org/

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 22, 2009, 05:36 AM
From Richard Miller and Paul Hammond:  "For those interested in the discussion of how Web 2.0 technology is transforming the acts
of reading and writing, we invite you to check out "This is How We Dream" at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHvoBPjhsBA"