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Diigo and CommentPress go Head-to-Head (updated)
2 Comments Published by Mark Marino April 28th, 2008 in Researchers, Features, Criticism, Publications, Education.[Updated: 4/28/08…project still in planning stages]
In several postings, WRT has blogged about Diigo social annotation software (1, 2, 3) and CommentPress blogware. Both are about to go head-to-head over Jonathan Zittrain’s book The Future of the Internet–and how to stop it. Zittrain’s book has already been published online with the CommentPress system in […]
Social Bookmarking Soulmates
1 Comment Published by Mark Marino March 6th, 2008 in Features, Education.Over the past few years, WRT has occasionally addressed the use of new writing technologies in the composition classroom (several posts: 1, 2, 3 and Christy’s list of Games and Pedagogy). Needless to say, these lessons might also fit a multimedia literacy course or even a social media course. This post offers an exercise in investigating the role of social bookmarking tools, such as Diigo (previously discussed wrt “Marginalia”) and del.icio.us in contemporary online research.
Social Bookmarking Soulmates
an exercise in academic social networking:
Chatbots for Native Tongues: Interview Monica Peters
11 Comments Published by Mark Marino January 27th, 2008 in HCTI, Poetics, Researchers, bots, Features, Education, Interviews.When Alan Turing proposed his test, there was no question that the computers would be tested based on their ability to perform in the same language as the interrogators. As a result, the test was also a bit of an English exam — and indeed many bots fail on the basis of their grammar and, […]
A (Re)Vision of Students Today: Remixing Wesch
8 Comments Published by Mark Marino January 20th, 2008 in Features, Off Topic, Criticism, Education, Social.To mark Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, here is a new video (or a video response to Michael Wesch’s “A Vision of Students Today”)
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The video collaborates with Michael Wesch’s Kansas State students, who, according to the megapopular video, used Google Docs to collaboratively edit a document, essentially conducting a survey and, presumably, designing the video itself.
Wesch’s students’ video offers itself as a glimpse of today’s students. However, unlike Wesch’s even more famous Web 2.0 video, “The Machine is Us/ing Us,” which seemed to both capture and promote an image of technoculture, this video offers itself as an image of contemporary students (not “KSU Students Today” or “American Students Today”) without reflecting on its own particularity, its own demographics.
Joining the Software Studies Initiative at UCSD
7 Comments Published by Jeremy Douglass December 4th, 2007 in HCTI, Researchers, Features, CCS, News, Text Art, Criticism, Software, Education.I’ve recently joined the Software Studies Initiative at U. California San Diego, where I’ll be working full-time doing software and code research from humanities and social sciences perspectives. Here’s the hiring announcement from Softwaretheory.net:
Jeremy is appointed to Software Studies with support from the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and the Center […]