Tag: twitter

• On #UNL_DHS & #hastac2011

  Perhaps it was because I finished my reflection for Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together before hopping on my flight to Ann Arbor, but her argument and the UNL Digital Humanities Seminar was on my mind quite a bit during HASTAC V. Particularly Turkle’s argument that networked communication was making people isolated by distracting them from real…

  Brian Sarnacki

  December 4, 2011

  Digital Humanities

  hastac, Social Networks, twitter, UNL_DHS

• Alone Together

  [This is a post for UNL’s Digital Humanities Seminar. The week’s readings was Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together.] In Alone Together, Sherry Turkle explores human interaction with technology, concluding that as technology provides companionship it also isolates individuals. Turkle presents this argument in two parts, first looking at “tomorrow’s story” of sociable robots and later examining…

  Brian Sarnacki

  December 1, 2011

  Digital Humanities

  academia, digital history, Social Networks, twitter, UNL_DHS

• UNL Grad Students

  This week I am eagerly recommending the blogs of some of my fellow UNL grad students. I would be remiss not to mention the original UNL grad blogger, Jason Heppler. His blogging helped convince me to begin my own blog. From his blog posts, he has published an electronic book on beginning to code, The…

  Brian Sarnacki

  October 14, 2011

  Academia

  blogging, grad school, twitter

• GradHacker

  I have been thinking more about entering graduate school this year, perhaps because I am technically a new student (new to the Ph.D. program). Whatever the reason, though, one of the best resources for any new or existing graduate student is the blog GradHacker. Modeled after ProfHacker, GradHacker covers virtually every aspect of life as…

  Brian Sarnacki

  September 9, 2011

  Academia

  blogging, grad school, twitter

• DH is about sharing

  Mark Sample: The promise of the digital is not in the way it allows us to ask new questions because of digital tools or because of new methodologies made possible by those tools. The promise is in the way the digital reshapes the representation, sharing, and discussion of knowledge. We are no longer bound by…

  Brian Sarnacki

  May 25, 2011

  Digital Humanities

  digital humanities, publishing, twitter

• Open Source Scholarship

  A couple of weeks ago, Bethany Nowviskie visited UNL and talked about adapting the model of “skunkworks” to producing research and development. While her talk included many great insights as well as the most entertaining slides I have ever seen in an academic speech, one part of my notes from the talk really jumped out…

  Brian Sarnacki

  May 2, 2011

  Digital Humanities

  academia, blogging, facebook, publishing, research, Social Networks, twitter, visualizations

• Just Keep Swimming

  Once again, the end of the semester is near, which means each night’s sleep gets progressively shorter. I keep telling myself that graduate school is a marathon, not a sprint, but it seems that every few couple of miles I need to sprint. The work to complete graduate school is a tough enough task on…

  Brian Sarnacki

  April 26, 2011

  Academia

  grad school, social life, Social Networks, twitter

• #sarnackigate (two links)

  Jonathan Nash: Can the Graduate Student speak, & if ze can, will anyone listen? I’m not really interested in the content of @briansarnacki’s post from yesterday (Sorry B!). I am, however, interested in the criticisms it generated. Most follow this pattern: grad student + “naivety” = dismissal of opinion. It seems the same formula is…

  Brian Sarnacki

  April 13, 2011

  Academia, Digital Humanities, Teaching

  academia, blogging, grad school, Social Networks, teaching, twitter

• The Branded Professor

  Insidehigered.com: As a relatively new tenure-track professor in journalism and media, I teach students skills and critical thinking for a profession that is in a state of redefinition. One of the ways journalism educators are trying to increase their students’ job opportunities is by encouraging them to develop a “personal brand,” through which they establish…

  Brian Sarnacki

  April 10, 2011

  Teaching

  academia, blogging, facebook, grad school, Social Networks, twitter

• Social Media & Publishing

  The Chronicle: participants say social media are “being used as an alternative to the existing system by young researchers who feel frustrated” by the tight control that senior scholars and traditional publishers have over the selection and dissemination of research. Good papers increasingly turn up in the social-media networks, according to people in these focus…

  Brian Sarnacki

  February 25, 2011

  Digital Humanities

  academia, peer review, publishing, Social Networks, twitter