Seven Things about the Humanities and Social Media [Presentation Thursdays]

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Earlier this week, I was asked to give a short talk on the Humanities and Social Media at First Asia Institute of Technology and Humanities. Above is the slide deck I prepared for the occasion.

I found it particularly challenging to put together a cogent presentation, so I settled on just seven items I felt were worth talking about. The slides were less visual than I would have liked (notwithstanding at least one image I've used before), and I decided to drive the talk with more statistics and quotations. I even managed to tailor it to the Philippine context (somewhat), just for good measure.

For the curious, the supporting references are as follows:

• The Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication's Survey of Internet Access and Use by Filipino Schoolchildren (PDF Link)
• CIBER's Social Media and Research Workflow Report (PDF Link)
• Cathy Davidson's essay, Humanities 2.0: Promise, Perils, Predictions (PDF Link)
• Alan Simpson's speech, The Marks of an Educated Man (PDF link).
• Nicholas Carr's The Shallows (Wired Magazine Excerpt)
• Zarella's Heirarchy of Contagiousness: The Science, Design and Engineering of Contagious Ideas, by Dan Zarella (Amazon Link)

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