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Archived Webinar of Stage Two Prep: Designing Badge Systems and Models is Now Online
By Sheryl Grant on Jan 10th, 2012

Our most recent Stage Two “Badge System Models and Design” webinar featured another great presentation with David Theo Goldberg, who answered questions about the Stage One and Two application process, and Erin Knight of Mozilla, who discussed the many considerations of...
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Stage Two of Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition Applications Due January 17, 2012 at 5pm PST
By Sheryl Grant on Jan 10th, 2012

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The 4th HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition is accepting Stage Two applications from organizations, teams, or individuals skilled in designing digital badge systems for  Stage One winners’ and official Competition...
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Call for proposals & 2011 HASTAC Conference Details
By Nancy Holliman on Jul 25th, 2011

<<<<<Updated June 28, 2011>>>>>>

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Provocative premise of familial genetics influencing field of study - PLoS ONE article
By Scott Wright on Jan 31st, 2012
Arts & Humanities, Social Networks & Social Media, Research & Methodologies, Sciences & Neurosciences, Culture

It took me a few steps to get to the original source in the PLoS ONE online publication,
but along the way the "headlines" in the social...
HASTAC ContentSuper contributor
Duke Festival to Spotlight Collisions Between Arts, Humanities and Technology
By Nancy Holliman on Jan 31st, 2012
Arts & Design, Film, Video & Animation, Mixed & Augmented Reality, Collaboration, Music & Sound, Digital Humanities, International & Global, Photography, Illustration & Images, Virtual Worlds, Visualization, Online Identity, Race & Ethnicity, Technology, HASTAC

The second CHAT Festival will be held at Duke Feb. 6 - 9.

Editor's Note: Parking for events at Smith Warehouse and East Campus will be...
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Leading figures in the digital humanities explore the field’s rapid revolution
By HASTAC Admin on Jan 30th, 2012
Digital Humanities

DEBATES IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Edited by Matthew K. Gold
University of Minnesota Press | 532 pages | 2012
ISBN 978-0-8166-7795-5...
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Call for Proposals: Two Worlds Embraced by a Third: The Humanist and the Natural Sciences
By Clarissa Lee on Jan 25th, 2012
Scholars
Research & Methodologies, Sciences & Neurosciences, Technology

Attempts in exploring the sciences from a humanist’s viewpoint is not new, and was probably what instigated to writing of C.P. Snow’s famed Two...
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Announcing "The Future of the Humanities: A Think Tank"--they want collaborators!
By HASTAC Admin on Jan 24th, 2012
Digital Humanities, Higher Education, Pedagogy & Teaching

Paul Jay, Gerald Graff and Greg Jay, co-editors, announce the launch of a new website called The Future of the Humanities: A Think Tank. Why this...
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Imagining America themes at AAC&U annual meeting
By HASTAC Admin on Jan 23rd, 2012
Higher Education, Institutions & Organizations

Dear Imagining America colleagues,
 
First, we congratulate Alexander Olson, IA PAGE Fellow, and one of eight recipients of the AAC...
MemberLurker
Story on badging in Wall Street Journal 1/21/2012
By Scott Wright on Jan 22nd, 2012
Careers, Publishing & Tenure, Digital Media & Learning, Online Identity, HASTAC

 

see story at: 

 

http://goo.gl/CaLbI

 

thanks, Scott Wright
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Spring 2012 Independent Study @ Duke: an alternate reality game on the future of capitalism
By HASTAC Admin on Jan 17th, 2012
Coding & Development, Data & Information, Games & Gaming, Visualization, Technology

Spring 2012 Independent Study with the GreaterThanGames Lab @ the Franklin Humanities Institute

SPECULATION
an alternate reality...
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Give My Poor Heart Ease Ebook Demonstration
By HASTAC Admin on Jan 13th, 2012
Journalism & Media, Multimedia

Note the multi-media edition of Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues published by UNC Press.

http://www.youtube.com/...
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Technology, Social Justice, and the Humanities Intersect at THATCamp PNW Unconference
By HASTAC Admin on Jan 13th, 2012
Advocacy, Civic Engagement, Digital Humanities, Community & Policy

What are the relationships between technological literacy and social change?

Participants in this year’s THATCamp PNW came together on...
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Thinking Forward: Conrad Wolfram on the Computational Knowledge Economy
By HASTAC Admin on Jan 13th, 2012
Data & Information, Technology

By Daniel Araya, Research Fellow, Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (I-CHASS)
HASTAC ContentSuper contributor
Archived Webinar of Stage Two Prep: Designing Badge Systems and Models is Now Online
By Sheryl Grant on Jan 10th, 2012
Competitions
Assessment & Evaluation

Our most recent Stage Two “Badge System Models and Design” webinar featured another great presentation with David Theo Goldberg, who answered...
HASTAC ContentSuper contributor
Stage Two of Badges for Lifelong Learning Competition Applications Due January 17, 2012 at 5pm PST
By Sheryl Grant on Jan 10th, 2012
Competitions
Assessment & Evaluation

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The 4th HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition is accepting Stage Two applications from...
Member
SENSATE: Call for Submissions and Applications
By Julia Yezbick on Jan 7th, 2012
Academia, Arts & Design, Coding & Development, Film, Video & Animation, Arts & Humanities, Geography & Location, Information Science & Archiving, Mixed & Augmented Reality, Careers, Publishing & Tenure, Collaboration, Internet & Web 2.0, Music & Sound, Digital Divide & Access, Digital Humanities, Photography, Illustration & Images, Digital Media & Learning, Journalism & Media, Open Source, Open Access & Open Web, Visualization, Social Networks & Social Media, User Experience & Design, Research & Methodologies, Culture, Multimedia, Technology
artistic research, Critical Media Practice, digital cartography, digital publishing, Media Archeology, Multimedia Mash-ups, performance, Sensate Journal, Sensory Ethnography, sound studies, Visual Anthropology

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CHAT Festival CFP--Deadline Jan. 5!
By Nancy Holliman on Jan 4th, 2012
Arts & Humanities, Collaboration, HASTAC

Dear Friends, Colleagues and Students -