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All human-made things are tech.
Originally published in the Guardian on 13 August 1966: As latest report highlights how computers could improve efficiencies, the House of Commons library faces financial pressure
Wanna be a reference librarian? Better know yer tech.
'Unfortunately, the notion of marriage which prevails ... at the present time ... regards the institution as simply a convenient arrangement or formal contract ... This disregard of the sanctity of marriage and contempt for its restrictions is one of the most alarming tendencies of the present age.' --John Harvey Kellogg, Ladies' guide in health and disease (1883)
"When a company or industry is facing changes to its business due to technology, it will argue against the need for change based on the moral importance of its work, rather than trying to understand the social underpinnings."
An allegory on media-technology obsolescence.
This fall at UVa I'll be teaching a senior seminar called “Crime Fictions: Premodern/Modern.” The class will explore the literature of crime in ...
Number of times the word "book" appears in the ALA Code of Ethics: 0.
Let's teach children that computers have no place in libraries! YEAH, THAT'S THE TICKET.
As an outsider to the field/subfield/whatever, I spend very little time these days listening to Digital Humanities & related folks. But because several of my closest friends are theorists/prac…
We're worried. With all of the things in the physical world -- parks and baseball, cars and cats, food and drink, duvet covers and lamps -- how will anyone get any reading done?
The e-book is usually said to have been invented in 1971, when an undergrad at the University of Illinois, Michael S. Hart, decided to upload The Declaration of Independence onto an ARPAnet server. Sitting in the Materials Research Lab among hulking, warmly breathing Xerox Sigma V processors, Hart went on to input and share, with a quixotic singularity of purpose, text after text.
I. The new USIH blogger LD Burnett has a post up expressing ambivalence about the digital humanities because it is too eager to reject book...
Nice contrast to the "computerators" abstract.
Five centuries before Facebook and the Arab spring, social media helped bring about the Reformation
"A tool addresses human needs by augmenting human capabilities."
When the linguist claims that social media is "shallow," he isn't very deep or convincing