In reviewing T. L. Taylor’s Play Between Worlds for a reading response assignment, I started to think about the language we use to talk about social web tools. Our choice of words can have an enormous impact on whether or not people choose to adopt new technologies. As in any form of persuasive argument, [...]

I just returned from an exciting meeting with three other grad students and two new media faculty, Eric Gordon and John Craig Freeman, at Emerson College. The purpose was to get together and discuss how we might envision a location-based/networked forum for sharing our work and connecting on related projects.
The majority of grad students [...]

Over the summer, I’ve been working with ACME (Action Coalition for Media Education) Co-President Rob Williams and Flow Media Design’s Rick Hood on building a new website for our organization using Drupal. It’s been a crash course for me in learning Drupal, which has been a lot of fun. I’m still learning my way around, [...]

My notes from today’s luncheon with danah boyd at the Berkman Center:
At the base of social network sites is the desperate desire to be social, to be apart of a group. Social networks are about friends and people you already know.
Danah said she’s trying to figure why people use these tools. Her background [...]

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I just learned that Danah Boyd will be visiting the Berkman Center next Tuesday for a Luncheon Series event. Here’s the blurb:
Guest: danah boyd
Topic: MyFriends, MySpace: American Youth Socialization on Social Network Sites
“Publics offer youth a space to engage in cultural identity development. By engaging in public life, youth learn to interpret the [...]

I’m finished with my first year of graduate school at Emerson College. It was a great start to what I think will be an even better second year based on a number of projects that I’m looking forward to working on.
I’m writing this post to help me organize some of the stuff going on. Let’s [...]

Mark Frydenberg invited me back to Bentley for a CIS Presents lecture this past Monday to discuss creative uses of social networking tools in education. I spoke to a room of about 60 students about my collaborative graduate thesis project and the tools I’m using to allow others to participate in sharing their experience and [...]

In any case . . . I’m

Editing my video/conversation with Felicia Sullivan to post (soon) for a Community Media in Transition podcast.

Reading Vannevar Bush’s “As We May Think” for Studies in Digital Media & Culture.

Planning a meeting at Harvard to discuss Open Media Publishing Tools.

Doing podcast pre-production around the question of “What is the role [...]

Danielle blogs about an article over at Tech Soup, titled “How to Use MySpace to Raise Awareness“. There are some great tips for organizations looking to use social networking tools like MySpace in their work.
Author Eileen Cruz Coleman spoke with folks at Defenders of Wildlife, Oxfam America, and The Humane Society of the United States [...]