Knowledge and Meaning in the Information Age: A Humanist Perspective on Wikipedia

Melanie Kill , Assistant Professor University of Maryland February 17, 2012

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Over the past decade, Wikipedia has drawn together a community of volunteer editors, translators, and programmers who have created the largest encyclopedia in history and one of the ten most . . . Continue Reading

Mobile for Museums and Cultural Heritage

Nancy Proctor, Ph.D. , Head of Mobile Strategy and Initiatives Smithsonian Institution December 6, 2011

Mobile platforms have become a critical social media platform and tool for creating “network effects” by connecting communities, conversations and initiatives in the museum of the 21st century. Nancy Proctor . . . Continue Reading

It’s not a game to me: ARGs, Game Design & Secret Agents in the Schoolroom

Beth Bonsignore, Ann Fraistat, Kari Kraus, Amanda Visconti MITH November 28, 2011

The Arcane Gallery of Gadgetry (AGOG) is a sort of narrative wunderkammer of an alternate reality game (ARG), a “cabinet of curiosities” combining a rich and oftentimes mysteriously fragmented historical . . . Continue Reading

Everything is Animated: Pervasive Media and the Networked Subject

Beth Coleman, Ph.D. , Assistant Professor of Writing and New Media Massachusetts Institute of Technology November 15, 2011

In a world of pervasive media and ubiquitous computing, this talk asks what happens as everything (objects, subjects, and actions) moves toward animation across a network. How does media and . . . Continue Reading

Thoughts on the Decline of the Book as Physical Object

Peter Kay , VP, Director of Digital Marketing and Strategy W. W. Norton & Company November 8, 2011

The vanishing physical book provides a set of discovery, marketing and publicity (and not a few existential) challenges to trade publishers. As the book transitions from physical object to a . . . Continue Reading

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