Tag: twitter

• Twitter as a tool for thinking

  Charles Fernyhough: But I suspect that I also use Twitter to think out loud. I’ve written previously on this blog about children’s private speech, and how it seems to be their medium of thinking before verbal thought becomes internalized. I wonder whether I use Twitter for some of the same purposes. Talking to yourself seems…

  Brian Sarnacki

  February 20, 2011

  Academia

  Social Networks, twitter

• What Grad Students Need

  I applied to continue onto the Ph.D. program at UNL this semester and it got me thinking about what I would have know about grad school before beginning. I had lots of good advice, but most of it was from personal conversations. All that I could find online was either non-department specific or not that…

  Brian Sarnacki

  February 7, 2011

  Academia

  grad school, history, twitter

• Build it and they will come

  The crisis in the humanities is a well discussed topic, at least inside the humanities. The humanities are often seen as less important than departments that bring in money from the federal government or private businesses looking to turn a profit. These (like engineering and the sciences) departments produce “useful” and “practical” things while the…

  Brian Sarnacki

  January 31, 2011

  Digital Humanities

  capitalism, digital history, facebook, google, history, humanities, twitter