. . . or two. Fresh editions of “Media, Race, and Identity” and “New Telecommunication Media” (no, I haven’t done anything to get that outmoded title officially changed since last semester). As ever, there are some changes from previous iterations, though most of those are minor. My biggest regret is …
It’s a small thing, to be sure, but perhaps worth sharing anyway. A couple of weeks ago, a reporter for the UMN student newspaper talked with me briefly about media literacy and artificial intelligence . . . and it became part of a podcast episode. Little did I know that …
…both for a new academic year getting underway, and for trying to fire up the blogging engine again on a regular basis once more. The former features fresh syllabi for my “Media Outlaws” and “New Telecommunication Media” courses. And the latter really is due for a fresh name. That’s a …
I will admit that I was surprised to dig up this very old bit of ephemera — a paper on online pedagogy that I presented at an ICA (International Communication Association) pre-conference in 1999(!!) — and see how much of it still made sense today. Not all of it, to …
Courtesy of the CLIP Interrogator (and a hat tip to the folks at Boing Boing, who brought this wonder of the algorithmic age to my attention), I now have two new titles to add to my CV. Using a photo taken of me during Larry Grossberg’s retirement festivities, the CLIP …
In 2009, I was asked to be part of a panel on “Copyright in the Age of YouTube” that was part of a regular Technology-Enhanced Learning Seminar Series sponsored by the Digital Media Center at the University of Minnesota. I was told that it was purely a coincidence that this …
The fall semester began for us last week, and so there are some new syllabi online from me for the current versions of my undergrad course on media and technology and my grad seminar on cultural studies. I know some people are very protective of their syllabi, and don’t like …
[I’ve already forgotten where I first read this tip — and since my efforts to backtrack to it by googling around are only helping me find dozens of seemingly independent versions of the same advice, I’m not going to worry as much as I might about a hat-tip the “original” …
Facebook gets a lot of abuse. And it’s earned most of it. They routinely make privacy an opt-in feature, and then compound that problem by making it hard for people to find the right settings to change if they do, in fact, want to opt in. They mine our friends’ …
The Washington Post recently ran a photo essay dedicated to showing us “what [our] smartphone addiction actually looks like.” It’s a classic bit of public impersonal shaming that resonates strongly with what we already know about how smartphones have destroyed our capacity for genuine social connections. We don’t talk with …