Category: Technology

  • How To Become a Technical Writer, for Academics

    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 […]

  • HASTAC—“The Ethical Social Network”

    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 […]

  • A Gender and Information Technology Reading List

    A Gender and Information Technology Reading List

    This list comes to us courtesy of Anna Lauren Hoffman (annaeveryday.com and @annaeveryday), an assistant professor at the UW iSchool. As she notes “the list was produced for a large 100-level course (120+ students) on Gender & Information Technology that we run out of the iSchool here at UW. This my first quarter teaching the course […]

  • Learning About Omeka at GC

    Learning About Omeka at GC

    As I prepare to begin my digital capstone project, I am forced to consider how I want to manage my content.  I have familiarity with wordpress through the work I am doing on my Social Justice Blog (Humanities Heart), but I feel compelled to explore other ways of managing my digital content.  Last semester I […]

  • What Are The Key Properties That Make It Possible for Innovative Institutions To Do What They Do?

      1-After my talk at @GeorgiaTech @IanBogost tweeted this great question: What are the properties of the institutions or programs doing the innovative things you mentioned that are making it possible for them actually to do them rather than just pondering the idea?   While waiting for my ride to @AgnesScott for today’s Founder’s Day keynote, […]

  • Playtesting: Bulge Lab

    In April 2017, I conducted an online survey about the gender identity/practices and gaming habits of men who have sex with men. Through the data I collected, I developed a web-based Alternate Reality Game (ARG), entitled Bulge Lab. Bulge Lab is an online adventure that takes about 15 minutes to play. The game focuses on gay lived experiences […]

  • CCSWG18 Week 3 Write-Up: Race and Code

    CCSWG18 Week 3 Write-Up: Race and Code

    WEEK 3: RACE AND CODE CRITICAL CODE STUDIES WORKING GROUP 2018 Write-Up by Catherine Griffiths Main Thread Race and Black Codes Race and Code Critiques Black Code/Database/Humans Chimeria: Gatekeeper by Fox Harrell The Beloved Community License Other Code Critiques Started This Week Port of Secrets / snippet of anti-code from the Irvine-based GM-less larp community […]

  • CCSWG18 Week 2 Write-Up: Critical + Creative Coding

    CCSWG18 Week 2 Write-Up: Critical + Creative Coding

    WEEK 2: CRITICAL + CREATIVE CODING by Teddy Roland   Week 2 Threads: Week 2: Creative and Critical Coding (Main thread) Week 2: Creative and Critical Coding. Coding as Method? Week 2: Critical and Creative Coding – Calvinball and Coders Week 2: Poetry as Code? Code as Poetry Week 2: Rando by Ben Grosser (Code […]

  • The (Open) Online Tools We Use–and Why You Should Too!

    The (Open) Online Tools We Use–and Why You Should Too!

    What’s the point of using online tools if your goal is a student-led, engaged learning course?  Tech for the sake of tech is ludicrous, expensive, and exploitative.  For me, the only reason to use a digital tool is to do something that would be impossible or difficult without it.   In our course, we use digital […]

  • “Awarding Innovation”: The DML Competition, 2007-2014

    For a full and thorough evaluation of the Digital Media and Leraning Competition, 2007-2014, please see:  https://www.macfound.org/media/files/InformingChange_DML_Evaluation.pdf