Internet
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Telling Digital Stories in the Classroom
A communications law professor offers this tale of integrating digital storytelling in the classroom: After all, we tell our students in courses focusing on skills that online tools are excellent opportunities to engage in some fantastic storytelling. Why not encourage…
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Weekly Geekery
As if you needed another reason to hate the Internet. Here you go, Luddite. Can a monkey own a picture? Wikipedia thinks so. Need to measure your soul? There is an app for that. Life at the edge of connectivity.…
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Weekly Geekery
THIS. THIIIISSSSS. And this history of “This.” Can Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) save the crumbling ivory towers of higher education? “Tech companies, in their many guises, always tell stories about the future of the world.” Kids these days are…
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How to Read Online and Still Understand Things
This New Yorker article sums up some recent thinking on the psychological effects of online reading. There were the architects who wrote to her about students who relied so heavily on ready digital information that they were unprepared to address…
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Weekly Geekery
The future of the Internet should scare you. Death isn’t an end on Facebook. Really awesome revolution of information. Teeny tiny profit margin. Don’t click away! Don’t check Twitter. This is all very important.
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Weekly Geekery
Do video games undermine empathy? Or are they just a comfortable scapegoat for a violent culture? Scientists search for an evolutionary reason for art. Spoiler alert: The answer is men and sex. How does widespread surveillance effect art and free…
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An Army of Readers
The more tools that we get for communication and collaboration, the more we’re taking reading and writing — these really solitary pursuits — and building communities around them for connection and conversation. Rachel Fershleiser gives a smashing TED Talk about…
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The Literary Novel is Dead! Long Live the Literary Novel!
It happens every now and then that we find someone toasting (or mourning) the death of the novel—this time, it’s Will Self’s turn. “How do you think it feels to have dedicated your entire adult life to an art form…
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You Are Invisible
Writing in the New Yorker about the smartphone app Cloak, Mark O’Connell offers a thoroughly beautiful and poetic commentary on the ontology of visibility: By generating a kind of omnipresence—whereby we are always available, visible, contactable, all of us there all the time—the technologies that…
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The Book That Wasn’t
Seventeen years ago I wrote a book, which you can find on Amazon and Google and elsewhere online. This is unusual only because my book was never published. Jason K. Friedman writes in the New York Times about his book…
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Trending Now: The Internet Knows Your Secrets
Last week, Ryan Pittington talked about the new trend among aspiring and established authors alike to use Twitter as a means of staying connected, not only to other writers, but to potential readers. What should one tweet? Where do we…