Week 2: How Are We Using Twitter? There’s been a push in recent years, in institutions of higher learning, to maintain an active presence on social media as academics, historians, digital humanists, researchers, department chairs...all of us. But how are we actually USING it? What are our goals in utilizing these platforms and are we …
What is “New” Media?
Week 1: What is “new” media? Throughout the semester, we’ll be looking at the intersection of terms we think we know—old media and new media, for example—and contextualizing them, considering what they mean to and for the communities that experience them first, and interrogating the possibilities and limitations of our own emergent media. In our …