Digital Media and Learning Competition
The “virtual institution” HASTAC (the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, centered at UC Irvine and Duke) has announced a competition to win some of the Macarthur Foundation’s money ($2million of it) for projects in digital media and learning… It’s pretty clear this is for just about anyone, and probably just about any kind of project (though the HASTAC site is bizarrely specific in proposing that “For example, a team of teacher bloggers who already reach hundreds of thousands of readers may now seek to provide multimedia coverage and translation of MIT Professor Henry Jenkins’ recent white paper on media literacy.” Should we be doing that? Do we have to use Official Henry Jenkins White Papers?). In any case, surely there must be some anthropods out there with good ideas for goinig forth and learning the people with your digital media… now’s your chance!
Christopher Kelty does anthropological and historical research on science and technology, free and open source software, intellectual property and open access, the history of software, and the ethics and politics of nanotechnology. He also teaches classes about all of these things. From 2001 to 2008 he was assistant professor of anthropology at Rice University, in Houston, TX. He know teaches at UCLA and splits his time between the Information Studies department, the Anthropology Department and the Center for Society and Genetics.
