Tweet I am very intrigued by the social affordances allowed in research blogging. The exchange of ideas and early/process criticism are one of the main reasons I blog. This exchange was strengthened, for me, when I discovered RSS and del.icio.us. … Continue reading
Tweet HUMlab does not really have a territory to defend. We do things that others do not and when others start to do these things we do not necessarily have to continue (I am mainly talking about the university situation … Continue reading
Tweet The HUMlab Blog was launched about two weeks ago and and while there are still some technical glitches things are coming along. It is a new experience, of course, managing an institutional blog. It will take some time to … Continue reading
Tweet Every semester HUMlab organizes about 15 short courses (3 hours each) on a wide range of topics: GIS, virtual worlds, blogs, the inside of a computer, PHP etc. The idea is to mix theory/talking and practice/doing. Most of the … Continue reading
Tweet Yesterday Sharon Traweek from UCLA visited HUMlab. She had been invited to Umeå by the National Graduate School of Gender Studies. I learnt a lot from her just talking to her for an hour or so. When I read … Continue reading
Tweet Several HUMlab researchers have a strong interest in “embodied learning” in graphical virtual environments and in many of our educational projects we experiment with this notion. One example which has been previously mentioned here (and for instance in Patrik’s … Continue reading
Tweet The photo below shows Henry Jenkins, MIT, and Espen Aarseth, the IT University of Copenhagen, a few hours before their much-anticipated game studies debate. debaters at technology and project session (more here) On January 18, 2005, HUMlab facilitated a … Continue reading
