Category: communuity informatics

Web 2.0 in higher education

There is a belief in some circles that Content Management Systems (CMS) such as Joomla and Drupal are labour saving devices and that their very presence online will spontaneously invoke a community of highly-skilled individuals that will submit content and build the system in a coherent and meaningful way. This idea is a myth as…
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May 7, 2009

communuity informatics, social media, software, web2.0
What is HASTAC?

A consortium of humanists, artists, scientists, social scientists, and engineers from universities across the country, HASTAC (“Haystack”) is committed to new forms of collaboration across institutions, disciplines, and communities to promote creative uses of technology. Since 2003, we have been developing tools for multimedia archiving and social interaction, gaming environments for teaching, innovative educational programs…
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August 15, 2007

collaboration, communuity informatics, creative commons, social media, web2.0
What is Mashable.net?

Mashable is a news site for the social networking movement (link).
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August 15, 2007

collaboration, communuity informatics, social media, web2.0
Cyberinfastructure for Collaboration and Innovation (selected papers)

selected papers from the conference 29-30 January 2007 (link to First Monday)
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August 3, 2007

collaboration, communuity informatics, deliberation, design, humanities computing, web2.0
A Blog Philosophy

If a blog can have a philosophy, then the philosophy of this blog is that there is nothing particularly radical about the new. The new may be radical to some, but the new can only be new in the context of the old (or their ‘old’). Some of the old may be threatened by the…
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July 20, 2007

art, blogs, collaboration, communuity informatics, digital humanities, humanities computing, hypertext, internet
Towards an institutional typology of digital humanities centres

Thanks to John Unsworth for the link… This Wiki presents a structured list of departments, centres, institutes and other institutional forms that variously instantiate humanities computing. For each entry a link is provided to the relevant site on the WWW and a brief description given. This list represents an ongoing attempt to derive a basic…
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May 11, 2007

communuity informatics, digital humanities, e-science, education, humanities computing, social media, software

Category: communuity informatics

Web 2.0 in higher education

What is HASTAC?

What is Mashable.net?

Cyberinfastructure for Collaboration and Innovation (selected papers)

A Blog Philosophy

Towards an institutional typology of digital humanities centres