Category: Technology

  • Prospects For The Aerospace Industry Development in 2018

    Prospects For The Aerospace Industry Development in 2018

    Time has been somewhat friendly to the aerospace industry. With the growing rise in air travel, vast backlogs of aircraft orders and a resurgent business sector show the continued strength of the industry. However, beneath the data headline are various signs that the industry is going through a shift which will see significant consolidation in […]

  • Developing a Digital Scholarly and Professional Identity

    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, […]

  • Bibliography: blockchain and whisper networks

    The bibliography that follows is a first iteration of works that I’m gathering to explore epistemological and structural parallels between distributed ledger technology (aka blockchain) and whisper networks (as defined as “An informal chain of conversations among members of an oppressed or marginalized group about oppressors who need to be watched because of predatory behavior” […]

  • Video Game Violence Linked to Children

    Video Game Violence Linked to Children

      In this report, violence in video games is shown to affect children under the age of 18 in one of two ways. The first way embodies Stuart Hall’s theory of communication and is detrimental to development and growth of a child. The second represents McLuhan’s theory and has transformative effects on children for the better. […]

  • Where is Social Media Headed?

    Going back in time, the hit TV Show “iCarly” was a great illustration of where we seem to be headed now in our evolution of social media. The nostalgic children’s show influenced several children to want to engage online in the same way they did using the like of YouTube or by simply uploading videos […]

  • New Era of Privacy

    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. […]

  • How Conference Attendance Expands Your Thinking

    I recently attended the Association for Educational Communication  & Technology (AECT) conference in Jacksonville, Florida. One of my presentation was on the ” Video gameplay and the literacy practices of African immigrants students” at an institution of higher education in the U.S. At the end of my presentation, I received complimentary comments, and questions. However, […]

  • HASTAC Scholars Year in Review: 2016-2017

    This year, the HASTAC Scholars program had about 230 participants. The year started off with an exciting an announcement that ASU and their Nexus Lab have become a new partner institution for HASTAC. In November, we all signed a reaffirmation of our core values of intellectual freedom and education as a public good. Most of […]

  • The Joys, Struggles, and Ultimate Triumphs of Coding: My Experience Learning the Language of Java

    The Joys, Struggles, and Ultimate Triumphs of Coding: My Experience Learning the Language of Java

    I had originally signed up to take Intermediate French I for my final semester at Wesleyan College. Unfortunately, I was informed that the class had been cancelled when I returned to campus after the summer, though the professor still gave me the resources I needed to learn higher-level French on my own time…I haven’t opened […]

  • HELP! I can’t even edit my own posts…

    HELP! I can’t even edit my own posts…

    OK. My very old posts. Posts which I am editing for the first time in ages… But still, why can’t I edit them? First some history The HASTAC site used to allow Full HTML access to all users. Over time, this became a significant security threat so we began filtering HTML tags around 2014. At the time, the Filtered HTML […]