Getting to Wrong
About a month ago, I started writing an entry about Gawker Media as a model for the “new journalism”. When I started writing that, I mostly meant it as a compliment. I was thinking about Deadspin’s...
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Maybe it’s just because it’s my obsession of the moment, but the digital camera strikes me as the single greatest example of a new “disruptive” technology that permits a fundamentally new kind of...
View ArticleThe Humane Digital
As a way of tackling both the question “whither the humanities” and the thorny issue of defining “digital humanities” in relationship to that question, I’ll offer this: maybe one strategy is to talk...
View ArticleHistorians Don’t Have to Live in the Past
In what way is the American Historical Association’s notion of a six-year embargo on digital open-access distribution of dissertations even remotely sustainable in the current publishing and media...
View ArticleMind It Is Blown
Me reading suggestions from Twitter about how to do some data visualizations of co-citations out of my Honors seminar on colonial Africa. Some days the difference between a dilettante who just likes to...
View ArticleYesterday, All Our MOOC Troubles Seemed So Far Away
Everybody remember the expectation that a smart, professorial President would hire an equally smart, skilled staff who would prove that a well-run government can be quickly responsive to the needs of...
View ArticleFighting Words
Days pass, and issues go by, and increasingly by the time I’ve thought something through for myself, the online conversation, if that’s the right word for it, has moved on. One exchange that keeps...
View ArticleThe Listicle as Course Design
I’ve been convinced for a while that one of the best defenses of small classes and face-to-face pedagogy within a liberal arts education would be to make the process of that kind of teaching and...
View ArticleHistory 82 Fall 2014 Syllabus
Here’s the current version of the syllabus for my upcoming fall class on the history of digital media. Really excited to be teaching this. ——————— History 82 Histories of Digital Media Fall 2014...
View ArticleApples for the Teacher, Teacher is an Apple
Why does AltSchool, as described in this article, as well as similar kinds of tech-industry attempts to “disrupt” education, bug me so much? I’d like to be more welcoming and enthusiastic. It’s just...
View ArticleGetting to Wrong
About a month ago, I started writing an entry about Gawker Media as a model for the “new journalism”. When I started writing that, I mostly meant it as a compliment. I was thinking about Deadspin’s...
View ArticleDigital Learning Is Like a Snow Leopard (Real, Beautiful, Rare and Maybe To...
Maybe it’s just because it’s my obsession of the moment, but the digital camera strikes me as the single greatest example of a new “disruptive” technology that permits a fundamentally new kind of...
View ArticleThe Humane Digital
As a way of tackling both the question “whither the humanities” and the thorny issue of defining “digital humanities” in relationship to that question, I’ll offer this: maybe one strategy is to talk...
View ArticleHistorians Don’t Have to Live in the Past
In what way is the American Historical Association’s notion of a six-year embargo on digital open-access distribution of dissertations even remotely sustainable in the current publishing and media...
View ArticleMind It Is Blown
Me reading suggestions from Twitter about how to do some data visualizations of co-citations out of my Honors seminar on colonial Africa. Some days the difference between a dilettante who just likes to...
View ArticleYesterday, All Our MOOC Troubles Seemed So Far Away
Everybody remember the expectation that a smart, professorial President would hire an equally smart, skilled staff who would prove that a well-run government can be quickly responsive to the needs of...
View ArticleFighting Words
Days pass, and issues go by, and increasingly by the time I’ve thought something through for myself, the online conversation, if that’s the right word for it, has moved on. One exchange that keeps...
View ArticleThe Listicle as Course Design
I’ve been convinced for a while that one of the best defenses of small classes and face-to-face pedagogy within a liberal arts education would be to make the process of that kind of teaching and...
View ArticleHistory 82 Fall 2014 Syllabus
Here’s the current version of the syllabus for my upcoming fall class on the history of digital media. Really excited to be teaching this. ——————— History 82 Histories of Digital Media Fall 2014...
View ArticleApples for the Teacher, Teacher is an Apple
Why does AltSchool, as described in this article, as well as similar kinds of tech-industry attempts to “disrupt” education, bug me so much? I’d like to be more welcoming and enthusiastic. It’s just...
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