Check out this provocative video by Dan Brown (not the DaVinci Code author) exhorting educators to use technology more effectively, and to basically change the structure of education, or risk losing students like him by becoming irrelevant. Towards the end, he powerfully says “I dropped out of school because my schooling was interfering with my [...]
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A few links to prove I’m not dead
February 5th, 2010 · No Comments · General
Chuck Tryon has an interesting personal post about the death of Miramax.
Christy Dena has an inspirational post about transitioning from the “Training Wheels” of the Ph.D. to whatever comes next.
Some liveblogging about a talk by Julie Cohen about networked selves.
Some of my own stuff:
Have I told you I am coblogging about a topic I have [...]
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Makers
January 5th, 2010 · No Comments · General
In Makers, Cory Doctorow does what he does best, creating a near-future world that seems plausible and relevant tomorrow, instead of centuries from now. The novel follows a group of inventors, investors and bloggers through a movement made up of loose networks of tinkerers repurposing junk to make cool new inventions. Huge, centralized, top-down corporations [...]
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Oh, the Humanities!
December 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment · General
Everyone is talking about Brian Croxall’s provocative MLA paper right now, so I might as well jump on the bandwagon. Go read the paper, if you haven’t already, but here’s a quick summary: Brian couldn’t go to MLA because he had no job interviews there and couldn’t afford the cost of attending, so he had [...]
Tags: academia·humanities·teaching·twitter
Twitter Backchannels
November 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · General
The phenomenon of backchannels has fascinated me lately. It started at danah boyd’s talk at U of M (.mov version) back in October, where a twitter hashtag (#danahjsb) was announced early on. Although I didn’t know anybody there, I ended up in a conversation with others in the room while the talk was going on, [...]
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Rage
September 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · General
Sally Potter’s Rage is as compelling for its mode of release as for the content. It was released exclusively to mobile phones last week over seven days, and then online and on DVD, as well as in select screenings in the UK. The premise of the movie is that a young man named Michelangelo is [...]
Google is creeping me out
September 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · General
Remember back when gmail was new and they were talking about targeting ads to people based on the contents of their email, and some people were freaking out? Not me. I didn’t really care. I’m all for privacy and find most web ads distasteful, but this didn’t bother me too much. I’ll tell you what [...]
Addendum: Moore on Obama
September 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · General
In yesterday’s post I pointed out that Michael Moore does not foreground the links between the campaign funding Goldman Sachs and others gave Obama and Obama’s economic policies thus far, speculating that Moore was going a little easy on the big O. Well, Moore did an interview with ABC’s Nightline in which he says that [...]
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Capitalism: A Love Story
September 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · General
The event. I had a chance to see a sneak preview of Michael Moore’s new movie Capitalism: A Love Story on Sunday at, of all places, the GM headquarters in Detroit. Moore was there for a Q&A after, as was Mary Kaptur, the democratic congresswoman from Toledo. For some video of the controversy surrounding the [...]
Tags: movies
CFP
September 16th, 2009 · No Comments · General
Ran across these this morning. If you know of others, let me know, as I think I will post journal/chapter CFP in new media and film from time to time.
Widescreen, apeer-reviewed open-access journal, is accepting submissions for its 2nd issue.
Here is a CFP for a chapter on Internet and Surveillance (pdf).
Games as Transformative Works in [...]
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