Thursday, February 11, 2016

A Surfing Bildungsroman: William Finnegan's Barbarian Days

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Once a long time ago when I dabbled briefly in art I tried to paint a breaking wave as various hues of blue rushing up a face and then cur...
Monday, January 4, 2016

A Computational Xmas

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Below is a xmas greeting my dad wrote in 1969 on a teletype terminal while he was an anthro professor at Dartmouth College. The photo depic...
Friday, December 11, 2015

DHQ Review // Silicon Valley and Silicon Slopes

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My review of Alice Marwick's Status Update is now available on Digital Humanities Quarterly .  Marwick's book is in many ways an et...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

Wasting Time

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 In today’s busy, technology-driven world, time is of the essence. An award-winning scholar and author will explore how previous generati...
Wednesday, October 7, 2015

The Challenger Disaster

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Friday, September 18, 2015

Energy Growth In America: No Longer An Unquestioned Good

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Sunday, August 16, 2015

All Is Vanity - Denigration of Selfies as a Form of Social Regulation (or: "iphone, iphone in my hand, who is the fairest in the land?)

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In Ann Burns'  Self(ie)-Discipline: Social Regulation as Enacted Through the Discussion of Photographic Practice  (discussed also in Nat...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Wealth Inequality in America

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Friday, April 3, 2015

A Dangerous Wandering Presentation at Weber State

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Matt Richtel's very engaging presentation at Weber State University on March 19th sponsored by the Technology Outreach Center, the ...
Friday, March 6, 2015

Matt Richtel to Talk About the Challenge of Attention in the Digital Age

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Here's the accompanying publicity announcement for the below: