the edublog awards
Henry Jenkins and i are honored to have been nominated for the EduBlog awards under the category “Most Influential Post, Resource or Presentation” for our Discussion: MySpace and Deleting Online...
View ArticleBerkman Fellowship
I am excited to announce that I will be a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School during the 2007-2008 school year. I will not be in-residence although I will...
View Articlewhy I am not going on the academic job market
I have decided not to go on the academic job market this year. I’ve wanted to be a professor for a long time. I still want to be a professor. Just not now. Making that decision was quite hard for me....
View Articleseeking research intern
Connected to my role in the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, I’m seeking a research intern. The intern would be responsible for: Creating an annotated bibliography of all scholarly research...
View Articlelicensing your dissertation under Creative Commons
When I wrote my dissertation, it didn’t dawn on me that using the Creative Commons license might be remotely controversial. There’s a template for dissertations at Berkeley and one of those pages is...
View Articlediscussion of “impact” at the CHI conference
Yesterday, I attended the CHI conference (an ACM conference for those studying and working in the area of human-computer interaction). I had the privilege of speaking on a panel discussing the paper...
View ArticleDoes money equal time? (Regarding proposed NSF funding of qualitative research)
Following a conference about qualitative methods, the National Science Foundation issued a report that provided “general guidance for developing qualitative research projects” and “recommendations for...
View Articleam I an academic?
academia (n.): The academic world or community; scholastic life. academic (n.): 1) An ancient philosopher of the Academy. 2) A member of a college or university. 3) A member of a society for promoting...
View ArticleChoosing the Right Grad School
Lately, I’ve been getting all sorts of emails from folks applying to grad school who are seeking advice. I noticed that I was starting to say the same thing over and over again so I thought maybe it’d...
View ArticleBig Data: Opportunities for Computational and Social Sciences
Scott Golder recently wrote blog post at Cloudera entitled “Scaling Social Science with Hadoop” where he accounts for “how social scientists are using large scale computation.” He begins with a...
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