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04/18/10--06:00: Osw3go.net: a multiplayer scenario analysis (chan 2656000)

My colleague Pat Clark and I are conducting a multiplayer scenario analysis (similar to an Alternate Reality Game) to explore the topic of racism on campus. It’s called osw3go.net. We seek to involve our community (although the rest of you can observe) in a constructive dialogue about what we can do, individually and [...]


04/18/10--07:21: Video of talk at Georgetown Communications Symposium (chan 2656000)

The video from Georgetown University’s Scholarly Communications Symposium, Social Media: Implicatons for Teaching and Learning, is now available. Even though I had the difficult task of presenting the “dissenting” view, I learned a lot from participating in the session and I really enjoyed meeting the folks at Georgetown. Here’s the blurb about the event from the [...]


06/14/10--06:30: Two Publications (chan 2656000)

Two papers that just came out: The Limits of Networks as Models for Organizing the Social. In the journal New Media & Society, (12) 4, 603-617. Subscription required to download, but your school might have a license. Also, the Spanish version of the e-book for the 4th Inclusiva.net Meeting: P2P Networks and Processes (Madrid, 6-10 July 2009) [...]


11/12/10--08:10: NCA Session: Media Ecology on the New Media Frontier (chan 2656000)

Anyone going to NCA? I will be participating at the 96th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association (Sunday, Nov 14 – Wednesday Nov 17, 2010, San Francisco). The session is titled Media Ecology on the New Media Frontier and is sponsored by the Media Ecology Association. It will be held Wednesday Nov 17 – 8:00am [...]


12/28/10--08:02: Certificate in Integrated Media now offered by SUNY Oswego (chan 2656000)

We are launching a new graduate certificate in Integrated Media. For more info, click here.


01/30/11--08:16: The Twitter Revolution Must Die (chan 2656000)

Have you ever heard of the Leica Revolution? No? That’s probably because folks who don’t know anything about “branding” insist on calling it the Mexican Revolution. An estimated two million people died in the long struggle (1910-1920) to overthrow a despotic government and bring about reform. But why shouldn’t we re-name the revolution not after a [...]


07/18/11--05:41: Unfriend Your Monopoly: Proposals and Projects (chan 2656000)

I recently helped to put together a proposal for a project headed by Geert Lovink (Institute of Network Cultures/HvA, Amsterdam) and Korinna Patelis (Cyprus University of Technology, Lemasol) called Unlike Us – Understanding Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives. The project is just getting started (no events or outcomes have been planned yet), but the [...]


08/31/11--08:03: Our chapter in ‘Activist Art in Social Justice Pedagogy’ (chan 2656000)

My colleague Dr. Pat Clark, her grad students Peter Cavana, Dan Herson and Sharon Strong, and I, have just published a chapter titled “Interactive Social Media and the Art of Telling Stories: Strategies for Social Justice Through Osw3go.net 2010″ in B. Beyerbach and R. D. Davis (eds.) Activist Art in Social [...]


11/02/11--12:27: Video Review of Alternate Reality Game: Border Crossings (chan 2656000)

My student Jeff Felix put together a video summarizing the Osw3go.net alternate reality game I organized earlier this year:


11/02/11--12:44: Upcoming Talks: 4S & Peace Studies Conference (chan 2656000)

I’m giving two talks in the next few days. The first one is titled “Brought to you by Twitter: Revolutions and Social Media Monopsonies,” to be presented on November 4 at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) in Cleveland. I’m also giving the plenary address at the 23rd Annual Peace Studies [...]