Twitter & Facebook Nuts, 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 Lexicon Tweet = 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 = Symbol denoting reference to another Twitter user (i.e. Congrats 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 – Twiterrific UberSocial - Twhirl - Can Tweet from mobile phone as txt message. Plenty of phone apps too.

Facebook 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