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

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 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!?

Submitted by nknouf on Apr 20, 2009, 11:06 PM

Sadly I was not able to attend the HASTAC conference, but I wanted to post some information about a current project of mine...

As we now hear by some commentators that the "worst" of the so-called financial "crisis" "might" be over, we have to acknowledge the difficulty of squaring

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

Submitted by jchall1960 on Mar 22, 2009, 04:54 PM
Creativity and Play Across the Disciplines. . . . Conference at the University of Alabama

Submitted by mindprints on Mar 19, 2009, 05:15 PM

Sometimes we are gifted with amazing technologies that can change our lives for the better. Sometimes these new technologies are so advanced and different to what we are accustomed to, we can not fully benefit from them. We try to use these new tools in the same way we used their predecessors. We cling to methods that are rooted in inferior, antiquated channels.

 

Here is a true story that illustrates this. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Submitted by lirani on Feb 02, 2009, 06:07 AM
Cross-posted at differenceengines but I would love references to relevant work on digital labor, informatization, and meatworld analogs.

Submitted by Lynn Marentette on Feb 01, 2009, 02:00 PM

Submitted by emoses_84 on Jan 05, 2009, 02:44 PM
How do we identify ourselves in the digital divide in the face of diasporic division?