Monthly Archives: November 2008

Search Engine Society Review

Demonstrating just how out of the loop I am, I managed to miss this very nice overview of my new book Search Engine Society, written over a month ago. Shirley Niemans is a grad student at Utrecht, and works with the Institute of Networked Cultures, and her blog is worth following.
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Hello, world

Jasper Lyle Campbell Halavais, welcome to the world. (Lesson one, your dad sucks with a camera.)
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A farewell to academia

There is a scathing elegiac on modern higher ed written by a departing mid-career professor that appears in Inside HigherEd. After too many years at this job (I am in my mid-40s), I have grown to question higher education in ways that cannot be rectified by a new syllabus, or a sabbatical, or, heaven forbid, a [...]
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Intro Cyberculture Syllabus (Rough!)

So, I somehow “volunteered” to create a new course at the undergraduate level, to be offered (mainly) as a service course–i.e., not to our majors, but as part of a humanities breadth requirement. I’ve appropriated the term “cyberculture,” though I probably mean cyberpunkish. This is a very rough draft–I’ve just shared it with my colleagues, [...]
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Professor Wikipedi

A reasonably interesting send up of Wikipedia: See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
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Robots bring me shoes & drugs

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Home Hologram Setup

So, you know what the big news from this week is: the CNN holograms. “Help me Wolf Blitzer, you’re my only hope.” In class last night we talked a little about this, and how hard it would be to get one of these things to play with. Well, I contend, not as hard as it [...]
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