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New Course: Social Media and Participatory Culture — Spring 2018

by Bill Posted on October 31, 2017

I’m excited to be teaching a new COM Options Course in Spring 2018, “Social Media and Participatory Culture.” It meets T/TH 2:00 – 3:15. In Social Media and Participatory Culture, we will consider how people have used social media to … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts On Life, Hate, and Action in the Post-Normal

by Bill Posted on November 13, 2016

I began writing this post several days ago. Since then several people have written and spoken about similar issues, some with more international experience, others with more journalism experience, others through Twitter threads, and others with more emotion. There have … Continue reading →

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My Professor Tweets: Archives, Visualizations, and Thoughts

by Bill Posted on September 7, 2013

On Thursday, September 3, my friend @mattthomas decided to do a search for “my American Studies professor” and retweeted the following:

retweets from Matt Thomas

This led, it seems, to a search for “my professor,” which opened the food-gates: Continue reading →

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Screencast and Video of My Computers and Writing 2013 Presentation

by Bill Posted on June 10, 2013

Updated 12 June 2013 I presented “Baby, We were Born to Tweet: #Springsteen, Concert Tweets, and an Emergent Transmediated Composing Community” at the 2013 Computers and Writing Conference.  In it I discuss my large-scale study of Springsteen fans on Twitter in … Continue reading →

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