Tag Archives: Media

“Civil Rights”

By alex | Published: 11/17/2006
Erik Strohmeyer, a student in one of my grad seminars, is writing about how key phrases are shaped in political rhetoric. One of those phrases he is looking at is “civil rights.” He just did a search of the phrase in the New York Times index over the last century-and-a-half. I took a look at […]
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CUNY Expo 2006: November 17

By alex | Published: 11/14/2006
I plan on checking out the Expo hosted this Friday by CUNY’s New Media Lab and Intermedia Arts Group: Bending technologies in and out of Academia. The site describes it thusly: Featuring presentations by ground-breaking electronic composer Morton Subotnick with an interview by David Grubbs, and a performance by the creators of This Spartan Life, […]
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The New Yorker on Wikipedia

By alex | Published: 7/28/2006
The New Yorker has a very nice article on Wikipedia, which sums up the site better than I\’ve seen it done, and (as noted by David Robinson) Wikipedia agrees with that assessment. It will be a nice item to add to introductory social computing readings–something the Atlantic Monthly (esp. Charles Mann) has been a good […]
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I’m on a Washington Radio (o, o, o ,o)

By alex | Published: 7/22/2006
Some of you may have missed my short interview on the radio this morning about blogging basics. Why? Well: * It was on a DC area AM talk station. * It was early in the morning on a Saturday, when most of the party animals that read this blog are just going to sleep, some […]
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