This piece encouraged me to think about the subject of digital archiving with regard to last month's topic of the maintenance of digital communities. As online collaboration becomes easier and easier with tools such as Google docs, it becomes more di ...
I feel like one of the aspects regarding digital communities that is important to keep in mind is that much (if not most) of the community building can occur asynchronously. Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and Blackboard discussion boards act as mediums ...
"Sidewalk life" has always been an important part of life for me personally, although I did not have that term to articulate the notion until now. When I was living overseas, a chance encounter with a familiar face from my neighborhood elated me ...
This post touches on a struggle that, as a game scholar, I find myself frequently engaged with: how much of my fandom is allowed in my scholarship? I've been a fan of games since the mid-80s; I've been a games scholar since about 2005. While the ...
Personally, I've found that commenting on websites like Media Commons and IMR help gives me confidence in the formulation of my responses during class discussion. While this certainly isn 't the case for the vast majority of comment sections on ...
This post seems to speak to the idea that members of digital cohorts still seek to the ground their experience in the "real." Although the photographs are not your own, the interaction that happens among yourself and the other members of the coh ...
I really like this post, Mark. Your discussion of "acceptable pesonae " in a given community is an important one and is always a tricky point of negotiation when entering a new community, digital or not. Several of my friend and I use the websit ...
Thanks for giving me a classification for my favorite field of research: foolywang studies (foolywangology?) The type of playful reflection that you're describing here is incredibly important within any kind of community. The British phrase "tak ...
One thing I noticed about both the back-channel chat and the "official" class chat is that it permits a student-centeredness that perhaps even the best teaching philosophies can't reach. More than the traditional classroom, the students hav ...
This sounds a lot like what happened at ODU when Avi and Jamie began overseeing on the front page of Media Commons. (Also, Jamie is being far too modest in her comment. She should have said something along the lines of, "That's exactly what I d ...
As commenter
Parcipatory archiving
The digital community
Digital sidewalk life
The academic fan
Hooray for comment sections?
This post seems to speak to
My "discrete" tastes
Working on my Ph.D in Foolywang Studies
Student-centered classroom 2.0?
Thinking alike
Pages