I.T. in the University

As a way of keeping  tabs on the development of MOOCs, I signed up for Chuck Severance’s Internet History, Technology and Security MOOC on ...

Gary Bernhardt at CodeMash 2012 makes some observations about odd behaviors in Javascript in the following video titled WAT . (Jump into it ...

In getting students to grapple with the concept of technological determinism, and the larger issue of whether we shape technology or whether...

In recent weeks a cast of essayists, psychologists and sociologists have been debating whether Facebook and other media technologies are m...

My better half had an op ed piece in the New York Times today titled The New Globalist Is Homesick .  I'm very happy for her!  (And dou...

In a recent post titled Don't Circle The Wagons Bethanie Nowviskie observes that while the humanities tend to have a more theoretical ...

Susan Matt (my spouse) and I were interviewed on KCPW today about our course "Are Machines Making Us Stupid?" Here is a link to t...

Last week William Powers visited Weber State University and spoke about his book Hamlet's Blackberry. Recent articles in The Atlantic...

I just finished reading The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser, who is the current president of moveon.org.  In keeping with the interests of th...

This blog is sort of an informal companion to a colloquium we hold here at Weber which is also called "I.T. in the University." ...