Category Archives: Social Media

Posts about Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and other social networks and social media.

Mapping/Taxonomizing the vSocial Reading (and Writing)

This proposal is an outgrowth of a couple conversations from the sessions of the first day of THATCamp. As with other forms and modes of reading and writing, there are multiple modes of social reading. Categorizing the different types and … Continue reading

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From Social Computing to Social Reading

In the final paragraph of his essay From Reading to Social Computing, Alan Liu asks, [W]hat is the differentia specifica of literary social computing? That is, how does engagement with literature or literary communities inflect, extend, or criticize the culturally … Continue reading

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Talk Session Proposal: Interaction Traces: Reader, Interface, and the Social

I’d like to lead a conversation about the affordances of social reading environments and their implications for readers’ perception of texts, their authors, and their co-readers.  My interest in these questions draws from my research in computer-supported cooperative learning and … Continue reading

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Welcome to THATCamp Western New York 2013!

THATCamp Western New York 2013 will take place February 18-19, 2013 on the campus of the State University of New York at Geneseo. Join us for a two-day unconference of workshops and discussions on all forms of social reading, from … Continue reading

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