September 2014
New Media and Experience
I first encountered Vannevar Bush’s “As We May Think” in a library context, where the focus was on the ways libraries can connect information to each other. Our discussions focused on the memex device, as a preconception of what Wikipedia would become. Hyperlinks upon hyperlinks would allow humans to travel from information to more information, expanding […]
First experience with blogging and NLI class
I like to think of myself as pretty tech savvy. However, I am increasingly finding that people who set up websites or who write instructions for doing so expect users to know as much about the hardware and software as they do. As I created my new (and first ever) blogging account, I was asked […]
Hello world!
Welcome to Blogs@VT Sites. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Hello world!
Welcome to Blogs@VT Sites. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
Old Meets New in the New Media Seminar
Despite the best efforts of a recalcitrant widget, a freshly pressed motherblog is just about ready for a new cohort of seminarians. The New Media Seminar kicks off tomorrow, and while the syllabus addresses the “Awakening of the Digital Imagination” (i.e. the intellectual and cultural history of new media up to Web 2.0), the workings […]
Test Post for New Media Seminar
Hi all! Testing testing…testing the feed. Looking very forward to participating in this semester’s New Media Seminar. I’ve been talking with others who have participated in the past and remember when Shelli and Gardner Campbell were first ruminating about this…
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