Recently I was asked to participate in a discussion of Julie Cohen’s new book, Configuring the Networked Self. I took the opportunity to ask my students to read it too. I’ve posted this entry here and at concurringopinions.com in case you would like to follow that discussion there in more detail. Anyway, after reading the […]
In writing an earlier post about the Romney campaign’s new media operations, I was struck by the fact that the campaign is using Drupal given its history in the United States. As David Cohn argued, the Dean campaign became the point of diffusion for Drupal in the United States. Cohn suggests that there was an […]
At the end of my last post, I promised one on competition/talent shows and their impact on creativity. I’m still willing to write it, but first I noticed this piece about genre disintegration on Andrew Sullivan’s blog and felt moved to comment: The following is also posted at my long-running blog (since 2003!): What is […]
Cross-posted on SocialMediaCollective; maryLgray.org; Cultural Digitally Mary L. Gray Senior Researcher Microsoft Research New England, Cambridge, MA Associate Professor of Communication and Culture, Indiana University Tyler Clementi’s death on 22 September 2010 was one of the first in a wave of highly publicized youth suicides that fall. In several cases, media coverage and political discourse […]
What do we really want from gaming as educators? As academics we strive to inculcate knowledge and wisdom into our students. However we soon discover how that wisdom is really gained not by passive transmission but by active and immersive engagement with the material and with fellow peers. Jane McGonigal’s recent book, Reality is Broken […]