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Tag: participation

  • 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

  • Encouraging classroom participation

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    After trying a variety of different tools, I’ve come to some conclusions: IRC chatrooms work much better for discussion than web forums, even though they are synchronous and so are less convenient.  Unless people know each other well and really care about talking to each other, exchanges on web forums always feels obligatory. Including a…

  • New Media (or whatever we call it) at the MLA

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    From 27-30 December I made the traditional pilgrimage of English faculty everywhere to the annual conference of the Modern Language Association, since time immemorial held between Christmas and New year’s. This year, lucky for me, it was held in San Francisco. Bigger and … well, bigger than ever. Forty-eight concurrent sessions every day, from 8:30…

  • Bastard Culture!

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    My good friend, Mirko Tobias Schäfer is defending his dissertation today. In fact, by the time many of you read this, he may already be finished and recognized as Dr. Schäfer. 🙂 It has been my pleasure for the last 15 months or so to read Mirko’s manuscript, Bastard Culture! User participation and the extension…

  • Talks at IR 9.0 — Mimi Ito Keynote

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    Ok, I’ve had some more sleep and will start commenting on talks I saw. Honestly, I didn’t see as many as I would have liked or register them as clearly as I should, because I was exhausted and sick for the whole trip, but I did at least see a few. I’ll just mention the…

  • Papers for IR 9.0

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    Here is our panel, by the way: Web 2.0 sites are praised for promoting sharing and collaboration; at the same time, they are criticized for violating user privacy and profiting from the free labor of users. This panel considers the complexity of relationships among users, and between users and system designers. In particular, each paper…

  • William Uricchio part 2

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    So one of the biggest issues in many of my interviews has been funding and William talked about this as well. Right now there is a lot of money available for digitizing historical archives and so every school is looking through their library to see what might be worth proposing as a project. The money…