Category: Open Source & Open Web
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Kindness, Culture, and Caring: The Open Science Way
Artwork by Kelvy Bird: https://www.kelvybird.com/ “So it’s kind of like if your house catches on fire. The bad news is there is no fire brigade. The good news is random people apparate from nowhere, put out the fire and leave without expecting payment or praise. …I was trying to think of the right model to describe…
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How To Code in Python 3 eBook Publication: A Year Later
Just over a year ago, on February 1, 2018, DigitalOcean released the collection of my Creative Commons-licensed Python tutorials as a free and open access eBook, How To Code in Python 3. Since then, the eBook has been downloaded 80,000 times to date and is available directly through DigitalOcean, Google Books and CUNY’s Manifold repository.…
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How To Become a Technical Writer, for Academics
I completed my PhD in Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2017 and am currently working on the Community team (composed of technical writers and technical editors) at the cloud computing company DigitalOcean. I joined the tech industry while I was ABD and completed my dissertation while…
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HASTAC—“The Ethical Social Network”
We at HASTAC were honored recently to be featured in an article in Inside Higher Ed by technology journalist Lindsay McKenzie, “The Ethical Social Network” (April 2, 2018). The article discusses HASTAC’s origins in 2002 as one of the world’s “oldest academic social networks” and its commitments to user privacy and transparency—particularly in contrast to…
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Developing a Digital Scholarly and Professional Identity
Below is the approximate transcript of the presentation I delivered as part of the MLA 2018 panel 739. Going Public: How and Why to Develop a Digital Scholarly Identity on January 7, 2018 in New York City. I’m Lisa Tagliaferri, I have a PhD in Comparative Literature and Renaissance Studies from the Graduate Center, CUNY,…
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New Era of Privacy
New Era of Privacy We are in a time where almost everything operates through the internet, you are not considered “up-to-date” if you do not have the modern technology. The constant updates help to enhance the experience of the user, this could be one of the reasons for the constant increase in consumers using technology.…
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Thinking through the world brain
WHY IT MATTERS WHO OWNS AND GOVERNS OUR GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY If our networked tools for sharing knowledge are free, far reaching, and fast, does it matter who owns and governs them? I’m posting the draft of a chapter of my dissertation on the Humanities Commons in support of the belief that the infrastructure of knowledge production is in fact…
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DML Playlist Final Report!
1. Who were you addressing with your design objective? Urban public high school students. While New York City (NYC) is considered the media and technology capital of the world, the population Urban Arts Partnership (UAP) serves — i.e. people of color living in NYC’s communities of low-income — is underrepresented in this industry. Roughly 11%…
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Why WordPress? Take Control and Build Your Own Course Site
At every education level, teachers spend hours prepping and planning. For educators, the highest priority items when mapping out a semester often include creating learning goals, lessons, and assignments. It is completely understandable that the last thing any professor would like to do before the semester begins is learn a new tool. However, gone are the days where…