Posted in 3377, 3378, 3376, 3375, 3374, 3379, 3380, 3384, 3383, 3382, 3381, 3373, 2759, today, and, the, learned, Video, 2962, 2966, 3195, 3185, 3145, 3007, General on Feb 26th, 2008 Comments Off
We finished the McLuhan video in New Media Studies today, and the students learned that MM had children (six, in fact) with a very charming and intelligent wife who both marveled at her husband and waxed rueful about his idiosyncracies. We learned that his son could not convince MM that in fact Brasilia was now […]
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Posted in 3235, 3082, 2993, 2735, 3354, 3355, 3358, 3357, 3356, 2966, 2962, reading, blog, posts, the, today, a, and, inspiring, General on Feb 21st, 2008 Comments Off
The Intro. to New Media Studies class today was pretty explosive. I had assigned excerpts in The New Media Reader from McLuhan’s Gutenberg Galaxy and The Medium is the Message. I was up this morning about 5, reading some insightful and tremendously inspiring blog posts from the class. A couple of the posts were especially […]
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Posted in 3272, 2755, 3235, 3273, 3274, 3276, 3275, 3137, 3113, the, blogging, great, 2962, 2735, 2966, General on Feb 14th, 2008 Comments Off
There’s a lot of great blogging going on in the Intro to New Media Studies class (always room for more, of course), much of it sparked by Ted Nelson’s Computer Lib/Dream Machines. We’re moving from Nelson to Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg next Tuesday, but before we go, I thought I’d share a recent response […]
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Posted in 3266, 3265, 3264, 3263, 3267, 3268, 3271, 3270, 3269, 3262, 3261, and, session, the, 2910, 2955, 2735, 2966, 2962, General on Feb 13th, 2008 Comments Off
ELI’s just published an interview with me and Serena Epstein at the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting, held in San Antonio just a few weeks ago. Interviewer/producer Gerry Bayne did an amazing job of corralling me into coherence, both during the interview and (especially) in post-production. My thanks to him, and also to Serena Epstein (heard […]
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Posted in 3096, 3095, 3094, 3093, 3097, 3098, 3101, 3100, 3099, 2735, 2966, day, student, the, office, today, moment, 2964, 2962, meeting, General on Jan 31st, 2008 Comments Off
Back in the office today after the ELI 2008 Annual Meeting, I met my first class at 9:30 this morning: Introduction to New Media Studies. Today was our first day on Doug Engelbart. In one moment, two-thirds of the way through the class, the synchronicities became unexpectedly piercing.
A student in the front row marvelled with […]
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Posted in 2962, 2961, 2960, 2959, 2963, 2964, 2968, 2967, 2966, 2965, 2958, 2829, and, the, my, reading, 2905, a, 2746, 2745, 2942, General on Jan 15th, 2008 Comments Off
I’ve met all four of my classes once now. This semester it’s two sections of Introduction to Literary Studies (gateway course for the major–theory and criticism and genre and close reading and a partridge…), one section of Introduction to New Media Studies, and one section of Rock/Soul/Progressive. Each beginning was different. Some of the classes […]
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