Archive for the 'internet' Category

Goodbye to Flow

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Flow Conference 2008 sticker I designed.
For the past four years, I have been affiliated with Flow first as a student editor for two years, and more recently as a senior editor. In that time, I’ve served on the editorial board of the journal and also helped coordinate the first and second Flow Conferences, in addition […]

Writing Digital

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Course Description
As print takes its place alongside smoke signals, cuneiform, and hollering, there has emerged a new literary age, one in which writers no longer need to feel encumbered by the paper cuts, reading, and excessive use of words traditionally associated with the writing trade. Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era focuses on the […]

Amazon’s big glitch

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

RN Lee’s Amazon Fail logo from Cheryl’s Musings. [source]
For those of you haven’t heard yet: Amazon stripped a bunch of books dealing with sexuality of their sales rankings, a manuever that disproportionately affected books addressing issues of interest to the glbtq community and/or involving glbtq characters. People on Twitter got hacked and started posting and […]

Wikipedia and Undergraduate Research

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Most of the time, I feel privileged to get to work with undergraduates. I think education is really inspiring and magical, and I value that I get to spend so much of my time learning and teaching. In past semesters, I’ve taught a lot of writing, but this academic year, I’ve been teaching a lot […]

SXSW: Can Social Media End Racism (Transcript!)

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Apparently, Liz Henry made a rough transcript of the panel, “Can Social Media End Racism?,” that I posted about yesterday, which Nalo Hopkinson cleaned up quite a bit. For those of you interested in the subject who weren’t able to attend the panel, it’s definitely recommended reading. The transcript is available here on Henry’s blog.
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