Category: Web & Mobile

  • My Year in HASTAC Communications

    HASTAC Communications: A Reflection Over the 2017-18 academic year, I served as a communications intern for HASTAC@ASU. In this capacity, I regularly posted to the HASTAC Twitter, compiled and published monthly HASTAC newsletters, and sat in on several HASTAC team meetings. These roles, tasks, and experiences provided a unique and rewarding set of challenges I…

  • Our Mobility, A Research Project

    Our Mobility, A Research Project

    Our mobility—whether it’s walking to a corner store, commuting by bus, driving across town, or flying across the globe—says something about our social advantages and disadvantages, culture, geography, goals, responsibilities, health, and well-being. Learning about the diversity of our mobile lives is one of the motivations behind my research project, Our Mobility. For some people,…

  • 2017 Wins & 2018 Goals!, or a Semester of HASTAC Communications at ASU

    2017 Wins & 2018 Goals!, or a Semester of HASTAC Communications at ASU

    This fall semester, I had the honor of serving as coordinator of the HASTAC Communications Team at Arizona State University. As the Director of Digital Content and Special Programs at the new ASU hub for HASTAC, these past few months have been our official transitional period into co-institutional hub responsibilities, and communications was one of the…

  • Sensationalism in Social Media

          Throughout the decades, technology has significantly advanced to become a fundamental part of human communication, however, within recent years the problem of sensationalization has become an enormous problem among social media sites, and has darkened the media in a way in which violence and negativity has become the main news source in day…

  • How Mobile Applications Can Improve Ones’ Work Productivity, Relationships with Family and Friends, and Overall Quality of Life

    How Mobile Applications Can Improve Ones’ Work Productivity, Relationships with Family and Friends, and Overall Quality of Life

    “In the 1990s the internet emerged as a public communications medium, and there were countless commentaries on its social impacts and implications. It took a series of transformations over the course of the 1980s and early 1990s to turn the internet into a popular form of communication” (Abbate, 1999, 181). Mobile Apps: Then and Now…

  • 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.…

  • From Love Letters to Facebook Messages: Has Technology Ruined Romance?

          Technology has transformed the way we function as a society. Tasks that would be time consuming are now made quicker to complete, creating convenience in our lives where there would otherwise be a series of steps to fulfill, all thanks to technology. From the way we travel, to the way we communicate,…

  • How can I search, filter and browse on HASTAC?

    How can I search, filter and browse on HASTAC?

    The HASTAC site is designed to facilitate both the finding of specific content as well as encourage the organized  exploration and surfacing of additional content that might be of interest to users. Search Use the search box in the site’s header to look for any specific content, anywhere on the site.  On the search results page…

  • How can I use my member profile?

    How can I use my member profile?

    Create an Account If you haven’t created your account on hastac.org, we recommend you visit https://www.hastac.org/user/register to create one. Welcome to the HASTAC Community!  Filling out your HASTAC Member profile Filling out your member profile is great way to start exploring the HASTAC community. You can enter your information while creating a new account and moreover, you…

  • Changing Email Information for a HASTAC User Account

    Changing Email Information for a HASTAC User Account

    How can I change my old email address to a new email address? If you don’t have access to your HASTAC account using an old email address, we can certainly change your old email address to a new email address. To do so, we need one email sent from your old email address to support@hastac.org — please make sure this message…