Category Archives: Social Media Literacy

Is there Life on Twitter?

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Updated to include a legend, as per advice from Scott Weingart. A collection of 15 different microorganisms found swimming through twitter recently.  Each component is a collection of tweets and users (though the small, round clusters have only one user) … Continue reading →

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Learning, Design and Technology Expo 2011

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Tomorrow is the public exhibition of the final projects for the Learning, Design and Technology program here at Stanford.  I’ve been asked to be one of the reviewers of the projects, which include learning games, map-based teaching tools, museum aids … Continue reading →

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The MMORPG Spring?

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Massively multiplayer games have seen all manner of recapitulation of real-world emergent phenomena within their simulated realms (sometimes fostered and sometimes entirely unintended).  But now, Rock, Paper Shotgun is reporting an on-line riot in the science fiction shooter MMORPG Eve … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 6, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

One of DH2011′s MCNs* Beth Nowviskie has addressed a thorny issue of Digital Humanities scholarship, how and where to give credit for collaborative work.  It’s excellent and it highlights many of the issues of description and evaluation of collaboratively-engaged scholarship. … Continue reading →

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Twitter Networks

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

ArXiv (which I only recently discovered while having lunch with the Culturomics folks was pronounced “archive”) has an en excellent study of Twitter using network analysis to reveal that earlier claims for a limit to the number of members of … Continue reading →

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DH11 Tweeterpation

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

#dh11isntverydh is currently trending as my favorite Twitter hashtag.

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Old Projects and New in the DH@Stanford Graph

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

I’ve started receiving more and more help with describing the Digital Humanities landscape here at Stanford, and so I suppose it’s time to update the DH@Stanford Map. Glen Worthey, the digital humanities librarian in Green Library, was particularly helpful in … Continue reading →

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An Interview with Tarn Adams

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

This is a repost of my interview with Tarn Adams, creator of Dwarf Fortress, a quirky and absurdly complex game that inspires enormous devotion among its fans–one of the most interesting examples of which is Matul Remrit, a collaboration between … Continue reading →

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Protesters Using Digital Mapping Tools

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

The protests against tuition hikes in London today are leveraging Google Maps to track official response (and Godzilla, apparently).  I’m not a fan of Google Maps or the entire Google Geo Ecosystem, but the ability to quickly create and update … Continue reading →

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The Wikileaks Graph

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Elijah Meeks

The Wikileaks Saga continues, and now the Internet group Anonymous–which originated as a self-organized campaign against The Church of Scientology and matured (some say splintered) into a rights-oriented hacktivist group with the rise of Why We Protest (notable for running … Continue reading →

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