Entries from November 2009

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Saving the world is serious fun all over again: how social media is changing witnessing, citizenship and the way we play

Dr. Adrienne Burk convened an amazing conference last month on behalf of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, and I was lucky enough to get a chance to speak on one of the panels. The conference was called Witnessing the World: New Possibilities for Citizenship and Social Change, and while it was [...]

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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Disasters and how to deal with them online! Just in time for 2012.

It’s no coincidence that 2012 (the latest in a long line of disaster movies from director Roland Emmerich)  is timed to release during one of the worst weather months North Americans experience. Yep, November is storm season, bringing with it power outages, floods, snow, wind – and that’s only on the west coast. We’ve written [...]

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