Category Archives: General
Gaming the (Twitter) election
Last night, we did a hyper-short meeting of my large Intro Interactive grad seminar, so that we were able to go to a panel discussion on race, gender, and age in the coverage of the election. One of the objectives of the day was to get folks Twittering, and so, in about 4 minutes, I […]
[ir9] First session (and my paper)
Yesterday, the Internet Research 9.0 conference got going at IT University in Copenhagen with a set of workshops. I participated as a mentat mentor, and I’m not sure how much the doctoral students got out of it, but I learned a great deal. It’s an interesting way of meeting academically, since we tend to deliver […]
Christopher Buckley comes out for Obama
I always had a soft spot for William F. Buckley, as I suspect many in academia did–even those who found him infuriating. Perhaps its just the shift of the right in the US that made him look good in comparison, a shift that it seemed, toward the end of his life, that he too was […]
Yarrrr.