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The new capitalists by Fawaz Gerges/ Yale’s Open Courses/ Massive Courses, Massive Data and more.. Academic roundup
TweetShare via emailMassive Courses, Massive Data Harvard and MIT hope their free online courses will not only give learners access to top courses, but also give education researchers access to... Read more
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“Occupy economic anthropology” by BILL MAURER and an anthropology roundup
TweetShare via emailUnfortunately the article itself is not public. it has to be bought, i haven’t got myself yet… Occupy economic anthropology from Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute by... Read more
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Sneakily… the Congress passes CISPA… Cyberculture roundup…
TweetShare via emailSneak attack: surprise amendment makes CISPA worse, then it is voted and passed a day ahead of schedule. Congress just deleted the Fourth Amendment from Boing Boing by... Read more
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Most buzzed universities on the Internet and an academic roundup… Occupy movement, Publishing industry and more..
TweetShare via email25 Most-Buzzed Universities on the Internet from Mashable! by Zoe Fox The complete ranking of the top 25 are listed below. 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2. Harvard... Read more
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An Academic roundup: “Connected Learning” from Henry Jenkins/ 55 free Philosophy Courses/ Netwar 2.0 and more…
TweetShare via emailHenry Jenkins: Connected Learning: Reimagining the Experience of Education in the Information Age This weekend, I am attending the Third Digital Media and Learning Conference, hosted by the... Read more
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Anthropologists talk about ” REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN EGYPT “; Open Access debates continue… an anthropology roundup
TweetShare via emailHOT SPOTS: REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION IN EGYPT Submitted by Cultural Anthro… on Tue, 2012-01-31 11:54 Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt a Year after January 25th Guest Editors: Julia Elyachar (University... Read more
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Free lectures from Michel Foucault; The Art of the Occupy Movement… and more..
TweetShare via email United States: The Art of the Occupy Movement from Global Voices Online by Gina Cardenas This post is part of our special coverage #Occupy Worldwide. The creative... Read more
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An Anthropology roundup: “Toward a Neuroanthropology of Immersive Online Gaming and Cyberdependence” and more…
TweetShare via email HAU and the opening of ethnographic theory from Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Rex Ok, a little less politics on... Read more
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A literati roundup: “12 Writers Who Still Refuse to Use Computers”, digital humanities, 2011 Words of the Year…
TweetShare via email Orhan Pamuk is one of them… 12 Writers Who Still Refuse to Use Computers Jan 1st, 2012 Computers are incredible tools: we use them to connect around... Read more
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a series from John Postill: “Democracy in the age of viral reality” and a roundup academicus
TweetShare via email Democracy in the age of viral reality (and 5) from media/anthropology by John Postill Continued from Democracy in the age of viral reality (4) Postmodernism as Rigorous... Read more
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Man Booker Prizer 2011 longlist announced and more…
TweetShare via emailLonglist for Man Booker Prizer 2011 Announced from Writerswrite.com’s Writer’s Blog Born in Europe: The Ph.D.: Are Doctoral Dissertations a Waste of Time? PhDs as Cheap Labor: The... Read more
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Will there be a “killer app” for Peer Review?; Wikipedia’s flirt with academic and more….
TweetShare via email Killing Peer Review Can the social Web produce a “killer app” that would do away with the traditional editorial process at scholarly journals? more When a cadre... Read more
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An Easter message from Galip İsen
TweetShare via email The sagas of apokastasis[i] are as old as human thought, sentiment and mythogenesis. Karl Gustav Jung extends the tradition back to the ancients’ efforts at cosmogony: he... Read more
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an interview with Judith Butler at the Immanent Frame blog.. and more…
TweetShare via email Implicated and enraged: an interview with Judith Butler from The Immanent Frame by Nathan Schneider Judith Butler, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is among... Read more
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“Electronic Literature Collection” and more…
TweetShare via emailElectronic Literature Collection, Vol. 2 from Transliteracy Research Group by Christine Wilks The Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2, recently launched on the web, is an anthology of... Read more
