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When the Sheen Is Off
As someone who has written about web generators and mash-ups, I have to say something about the latest series of Internet memes involving rehab-refusing actor Charlie Sheen and his wild statements in...
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DML/Kairos Webinar
If you missed the webinar with David Parry, Mark Marino, Katherine Harris, and me, you can click on this link and see the archived version.It began as a Twitter conversation between Harris and Parry,...
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Loud in the Library
UCLA Student Alexandra Wallace is all over Facebook today, but not for all the reasons that the buxom co-ed who created an anti-Asian YouTube video might desire. Despite the recentness of the...
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Songbirds, Lovebirds, and YouTube
Boy scout and local boy Jason Pitts has become the talk of Santa Monica with his video "Prom?" that has attracted over two hundred thousand views as the likeable teen seranades his potential date with...
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Why Is There No Motherhood.gov?
This month the comforting voice of Barack Obama is plugging a new government website in a series of public service announcements. Listeners are urged to visit Fatherhood.gov, which describes itself as...
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Mobility Shifts
There are only a few more days before the call for Mobility Shifts: An International Future of Learning Summit closes. Like the previous conference organized by Trebor Scholz on digital labor, The...
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Flying without a Flight Plan
United Airlines has become well known for its failures coping with criticism from social computing venues, as the airline immortalized in the YouTube viral hit "United Breaks Guitars" that has received...
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Where Is Governor Moonbeam?
Last week California governor Jerry Brown announced his veto of the state budget in a "Budget Veto" YouTube video. The governor opens his direct address to the voter with a moment of flourishing...
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Performance Anxiety
In a recent class I taught about "the Art of the State," students were encouraged to think about the values matrix of government as it is represented in the visual rhetoric of the state. In the case of...
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Home is Where the Logo Is
Like many who follow digital culture, I am interested in the design aesthetic of the so-called "Google doodles" that often grace the home page of the giant search engine's website. Many different...
View ArticleCan Public Education Co-Exist with Participatory Culture?
At Mobility Shifts: An International Future of Learning SummitHenry Jenkins (Team Cultural Studies) and Elizabeth Losh (Team Critical Theory) offer a progress report on whether and in what ways the...
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Mobile Money, Digital Learning, and the Virtual State
This year I finished up another round of guest blogging for the Institute for Money, Technology & Financial Inclusion, which has received a four million dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates...
View ArticleMLA 2012: Debates in the Digital Humanities
Hacktivism and the Humanities: Programming Protest in the Era of the Digital UniversityElizabeth Losh, University of California, San DiegoIn June 2009, Cathy Davidson wrote a blog entry for the...
View ArticleProgram or Be Programmed: Computers and Writing 2012 Town Hall 2
The central concept of this panel “Program or Be Programmed” might immediately bring up performance anxiety issues for many people in this audience. As Stephen Ramsay put it recently, the very notion...
View ArticleDay of DH
Today for Day of DH I thought it worthwhile to write an actual blog post for the first time in many months. Like others who have switched over to short format postings on platforms such as Twitter,...
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Feminist IT: Infrastructures
The Feminist IT conference devoted to "Feminist Infrastructures & Technocultures" featured a number of prominent feminist scholars of technology in the morning sessions, which were devoted to...
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Feminist IT: Legacies (Leigh Star, Beatriz da Costa, and Anne Friedberg)
The Feminist IT conference devoted time to celebrating the legacies of three feminist scholars who represented the group's commitment to doing interdisciplinary work and the interpersonal networking...
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The MLA and Continuing and Distance Education
This year I was honored to be nominated as a special-interest delegate for the MLA in "continuing and distance education." Now I am officially on the 2013 Modern Language Association Ballot that goes...
View ArticleDH without the DH
Today I did not tag any content with metadata. Today I did not write any code. Today I did not work on my Scalar project. Today the plugins for Neatline did not get installed.Today was the Day of DH,...
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The War on Learning
The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University is out! Check out the first review (which appeared in Nature), a great three-part interview by Henry Jenkins, the official podcast, and...
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Is the Water Hot Enough for You?
The case of Professor Steven Salaita has recently become a cause célèbre among faculty who once felt comfortable airing their political grievances on social media. What interests me about this story...
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Respect, Niceness, and Generosity
According to these reviews from a popular apartment-sharing site, I am someone who is "nice" and "respectful" in person. Perhaps a more substantive question -- for my future as an academic and scholar...
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Three-Ring Circus
As I go back to the lecture hall this quarter, it is interesting to think about all of the different experiments taking place right now in the connected courses movement, which encourages faculty and...
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#GamerGate 101
In recent weeks a number of people have tried to explain #GamerGate. You can check out "Why Bother with GamerGate?" or "What is GamerGate, and Why? An Explainer for Non-Geeks" for some primers. Now...
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The 2016 Election as Casual Game: Pokémon Go, FiveThirtyEight, and the...
The Norfolk Pagoda is a grim place on election night as the sun is setting. The Chinese restaurant that might attract patrons other than the addicts milling around the waterfront has been shuttered for...
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