One important but under-considered aspect of the connection between television’s rise and the Cold War is the anxiety that the rapid growth in the cultural influence of television produced in its wake, most notably a concern about the older, traditional American culture ostensibly being left behind. Included within this “traditional” culture was…[Read more]

With the brazen privatization, if not pending chaotic collapse of Twitter, millions of people are looking for alternative spaces to share their work, thoughts, and ill-conceived memes. Among the many digital migrants are a significant number of academics who looking for guidance, and familiar faces, as they try to make sense of the many new…[Read more]

This is an email I sent a friend on May 24, 1994, to help them upload a file in Word Perfect. Using Pine. and Raphael and Kermit. Really.

This white paper was written early after HASTAC’s founding (in 2002-03) and early convening at NSF as part of the “collaboratory” initiative of “centers without walls” to support researchers across institutions and disciplines. This is an early defining document of HASTAC. The Summary begins: “HASTAC (“Haystack”) is a consortium of hum…[Read more]