Else-If-Then

Author: Kim

  • A Retirement

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    As I continued to play Clan Lord last year, I became a regular fixture on hunts arranged by perhaps the strongest player in the game, Mujin Kun. She had been playing almost since the inception, and could usually be found somewhere in the lands for at least eight hours a day, if not more. That…

  • Struggling

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    Obviously I did not manage to keep up momentum, since I last wrote in February. The last year proved extraordinarily difficult on the personal front, for a number of reasons I’ll not discuss here. During that time I was completely unable to write, and barely able to read anything that required even a little mental…

  • Arse Elektronika 2009

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    I gave a talk this year, along with my co-panelist Pepper Mint. It went very well and was I think pretty informative for the audience, though of course some said, oh, we all know this already.  –It was about how technology and the internet have been intertwined with the emergence of a polyamorous community, which…

  • Ethereal Archives: The Evolution of Information Structures from Social Networks and Their Impact on Collective and Personal Identity

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    How do collective archives emerge from the individual digital memories of participants in social networks, facilitated by social software? Networks in northern California are studied and described as “ethereal archives” because they are widely distributed, linked through blogs, microblogs, and other locations in which content is always changing. Digital technology allows preservation of memories, and…

  • Ambivalence

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    My school, like many, is having money trouble, and that’s making things tough in a number of ways.  For me personally, there is direct financial impact– we didn’t get the raises we were due this year, and there’s no money for travel or research.  I was awarded an internal research grant, but since we have…

  • CCCC panel–Web 2.0 Wavelengths: Examining Spaces Created Within Electronic Discourse

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    Missed the first speaker–my stupid business center could not print my slides…. 😛 2 Jennifer Buckner spoke about using Pownce in her class.  She analyzed her own interactions with students and in particular the way she teetered between speaking personally and speaking as teacher.  I notice again how little Comp. and and Internet Research are…

  • In Honor of Ada Lovelace

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    So today is Ada Lovelace day and many people are writing posts in her honor that say something about women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). For awhile I thought I would write on some particular historical figure, but after thinking over my own research on gender and technology, I’ve decided instead to write…

  • Finally Posting Again…

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    I took quite a stretch off from posting here because I was focusing on my teaching blog, Ethereal Education.  Now that it is pretty well under control, I will resume, though probably sporadically until Spring break anyway.  The teaching blog is going well, and I’ve learned a lot more about theme templates in the process…

  • Users Recognizing Heterogenous Participation and Leveraging Their Own Free Labor

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    Here is a paper I’m in the process of sending out to journals, but who knows how long that will take, so enjoy! Users Recognizing Heterogenous Participation and Leveraging Their Own Free Labor Publish at Scribd or explore others: Academic Work Technology-Web-20 sequential tart

  • Why Teach ABout Social Media Using Social Media

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    Howard Rheingold speaks briefly and succinctly about his reason for doing this.  I agree. Click To Play Another cool thing I found via Twitter!