Technologies of Friendship – Weeks 1 and 2
Last evening was the third meeting of my Technologies of Friendship class. While I’ve been meaning to blog about the class each week, this post will have to serve as a catch-up. We’re actually not...
View ArticleAcademic Productivity workshop – October 3
Abe Crystal and I are teaming up to bring an academic productivity workshop to UNC. From 10-11:30 on the morning of Friday, October 3, we’re going to open the floor for ten-minute talks on...
View ArticleDr. Vance Ricks to visit Technologies of Friendship
On Monday, October 6, We are pleased to welcome the first guest lecturer of the semester to Technologies of Friendship. Vance Ricks, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Guilford College, will deliver...
View ArticleSpring 2009 – Social Networks
Even though it feels like the Fall semester has just started, registration for Spring 2009 is underway. I’ll be teaching Online Social Networks, with the class meeting on Monday evenings from 6-8:30....
View ArticleInvitation: Guest Lectures on Work, Organization and Action
On November 24, we’ll be discussing new forms of work, organization and action in INLS490. We’re lucky have four experts coming in to discuss their first-hand experience with the topic. Our guests for...
View ArticleSpring 2009 Social Networks Syllabus
If you’re interested in checking out the syllabus from my spring Online Social Networks class, you can find HTML and PDF versions linked from my teaching page. This course is a little bit of a...
View ArticleSingularity U, Network Forum
Via Wired Campus: (CNET has additional coverage) Today a well-known entrepreneur, leaders from NASA, and a futurist known for his claims that machines will soon outsmart humans announced the creation...
View ArticleThe DTH visits Online Social Networks
The Daily Tar Heel visited my class last evening: Instead of using Facebook to avoid studying, students in Fred Stutzman’s “Online Social Networks” course are making it the basis of their class....
View ArticleTwitter as Courseware
David Silver is using Twitter in his media studies classes (check out the amazing “Eating San Francisco”). Twitter is the class’ main mode of communication, and he writes that Twitter has replaced...
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What Google Could Learn From Goffman
In the week since Google introduced Buzz, the most interesting thing about the fiasco has been watching the company. For an organization as risk-averse and PR-aware as Google, a public failure offers...
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