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Twitter & FacebookNuts, Bolts, and Privacy
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a microblogging platform, consisting of very short entries (140 characters).
This is less than the text message limit, which is 160 characters.
It’s more about short declarations and posting links with some comment, closer to the original idea of blogging.
Twitter is also public, although you can set it to be private so that only those who follow you can read your tweets.
Twitter LexiconTweet = A post
RT = Retweet – Tells others you’re repeating someone else’s post (implying your approval)
MT = Modified Tweet – Tells others you’re retweeting someone but with a slight modification.
@ = Symbol denoting reference to another Twitter user (i.e. Congrats to @seanplatham on his promotion.)
Hashtag = A content tag beginning with # (i.e. #modernism). These create separate subject streams that you can follow and which are also searchable.
Excellent for backchannel conversations at conferences or meetings.
Some Twitter Clients
Tweetdeck – http://tweetdeck.com
Twiterrific - http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific
UberSocial - http://www.ubersocial.com/
Twhirl - http://www.twhirl.org/
Can Tweet from mobile phone as txt message.
Plenty of phone apps too.
Status updates are blog entries.
Short like Twitter, but only seen by your friends.
REALLY?
Facebook Privacy
You can change your Facebook privacy settings so that only friends can view your Wall, Pictures, etc.
BUT: Private companies like Facebook collect info about YOU, identifying YOU, and sell it to harvesters.
DH Manifestos
Manifesto Genre
Declaration: a series of blunt position statements to advance a revolutionary agenda.
Not concerned with nuanced argument.
In group/out group.
Take it or leave it mentality.
UCLA Manifesto
Current wave immerses “digital toolkit” with Humanities practices in mining complexity. (§4)
Disney the enemy b/c of copyright efforts (§8) – cf. “A Fair(y) Use Tale” video
Values copy over original (§9)
Values process over product (§13)
Wiki-nomics: collectively produced content, etc. (cf. wiki project next couple of weeks). (§15)
DH a blend of creativity, research, pedagogy, outreach, critique (§21)
Bloomsburg U Manifesto
Using tools we are already accustomed to for deeper intellectual inquiry (§3)
Digital Natives / Immigrants (§4-5)
Aspects of DH learning: collaboration, conceptual material, networking/socialization, interactive learning, new outcome objectives. (§9)
Interdisciplinarity: Actually these things are already done to some extent. (§11)
Video: “Digital Humanities and the
Undergrad”Looking at new media as a serious object of study
Experimentation in the classroom
Collaboration with peers
Process of working with others, productive failure
See things in new ways
Thinking, analysis, and representation (latter a new emphasis)
Core values of Humanities Curriculum combined: Critical thinking, writing, communication