Category: NMCC + UO Events

Current NMCC students are invited to a catered reception to meet media scholar Wendy Hui Kyong Chun.

Wednesday, January 7
4:30 to 5:30 pm
Digital Scholarship Center, Room 142 Knight Library

Wendy Chun (Brown University) is the 2014-15 Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics. She will be in residence at UO during the Winter quarter 2015 as the anchor scholar for the center’s inquiry on Media and Democracy. She will also be teaching the Habitual New Media course alongside Colin Koopman, in which they will provide graduate students from a range of disciplines with an introduction to, and deeper engagement with, some of the major theoretical approaches to new media as an object of critical inquiry.

She has an interesting background in comparative literature and systems engineering (see a brief article here). Professor Chun has become a world-renowned scholar on the internet, culture and digital media. She is the author of Programmed Visions, Habitual New Media, and Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics among other books and articles.

To attend the reception please RSVP to Margaret Hallock at hallock@uoregon.edu

Our new Prof Picks section features selected new media resource “picks” selected by NMCC faculty affiliates. Our first Prof Picks feature is Professor John Fenn, Assistant Professor in Arts & Administration.

“As any student who’s been in one of my classes can attest to, I use Diigo quite a bit. As a social bookmarking tool, it enables users to gather, annotate, and share web-based resources across multiple devices and platforms.

My initial attraction to Diigo stemmed from the fact that it is decoupled from a specific browser or computer/device. By using it, I no longer had to be sitting in front of a particular computer using a particular instance of a particular browser to recall a link I had saved.

Furthermore, Diigo enabled me to tag resources and annotate them—both within the Diigo site as well as directly at the URL I had saved.

At first I used Diigo to prep for courses and in my own research, but then I expanded my use of it by building the platform into courses. Drawing on the “group” feature, I started generating course-based groups through which students would gather and annotate links.

Some of these groups were informal, meaning I did not require participation, but others were tied directly to assignments (depending on the course and learning objectives I had crafted). No matter how I have used it in a course, though, I try to introduce all students to the service so that they can explore it on their own and find fit with their own web-based pursuits, academic or otherwise.”

Interested in learning more about how you can use Diigo in your own research? Please contact John Fenn for more information. You can also read more about Professor Fenn’s  research interests here.

Are you a UO faculty member interested in getting involved with NMCC and/or being our next Prof Picks feature? Please contact us.

The Digital Scholarship Center (DSC) at UO collaborates with faculty and students to transform research, scholarly communication, and instruction using new media and digital technologies. Based on a foundation of access, sharing, and preservation, the DSC provides digital asset management, digital preservation, training, consultations, and tools for digital scholarship.

Visit them at 142 Knight Library, and learn more about their services on the DSC website.

Karen Estlund and John Russell of the DSC sat down with me recently to discuss some of the great opportunities available to students right now at the DSC:

1. Graduate Affiliates Program CFP (deadline December 1): The DSC Graduate Affiliates program, which will take place during Winter and Spring terms, is an opportunity for a small group of graduate students to benefit from the resources of the Digital Scholarship Center and engage collaboratively with each other. Affiliates will receive close consultation and assistance on their research and participate in colloquia and other special events.

To Apply: Send a CV, a brief research proposal that describes a research or instructional project to be carried out as well as what assistance might be needed, and a brief letter of support from your advisor. The deadline is soon: December 1.

2. Winter Course Offering: The DSC will again be offering LIB 607: Digital Scholarship Methods this Winter term on Mondays 9-11:50am. The course will be both a survey of scholarship that makes use of digital approaches and an introduction to tools for digital scholarship. A draft syllabus is online: https://library.uoregon.edu/node/4570

3. The DSC welcomes proposals for “on demand” workshops or credit courses that meet the needs of students or faculty. The Libraries’ Data Curation course (offered Spring term) and Arduino workshops were created due to student interest. DSC staff can help with portfolio building skills as well.

Have ideas for workshops or courses? Contact Karen Estlund (kestlund@uoregon.edu) or John Russell (johnruss@uoregon.edu).

4. The DSC is home to a Sandbox Lab that is open to students, faculty, and staff. They have two Macs, an HD 64” flat screen, hardware and software for teleconferencing, scanners, and a lot of software common to digital scholarship (for instance, Gephi, R, and Google Earth). Both Macs have Oracle VirtualBox installed, so people can work with software in a Mac, Linux, or Windows environment.

The DSC team is willing to install open source software by request and they also have Amazon web services space for those who want to experiment with server-based tools.

5. The DSC hosts and provides support for theses and dissertations in Scholars Bank. They can help with copyright questions, with submission, and they can work with students to provide access to any supplemental data associated with their graduate research. Contact scholars@uoregon.edu with questions.

Living Data: Inhabiting New Media

Friday, February 20, 2015
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Explore new media theory, data histories, network culture and information ecologies in this interdisciplinary symposium. This event is part of the Wayne Morse Center’s theme of inquiry on Media and Democracy and is free and open to the public.

Keynote:

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun will give the keynote address on Habitual New Media. Chun is the 2014-15 Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics.

Friday, January 16.  12:00 – 1:00 pm. 159 PLC.

Colin Koopman, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, will present his work on information politics at a small seminar at the Oregon Humanities Center.

Colin is a Faculty Research Fellow at OHC this year and was Resident Scholar at the Wayne Morse Center last year on this topic.

To learn more about Koopman and his research interests, please visit his faculty profile, or visit his personal website.

Tuesday, November 25th – 7:00 pm — 214 McKenzie Hall – Free

Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates are invited to join the Cinema Studies Department for a free screening of All About You / Tutto parla di te, directed by Alina Marazzi (2012).

Check out the trailer: Tutto Parla Di Te Trailer

Have You Heard of TED Talks? Try out the GradTalks Series!