Join the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication for a discussion on “Media, Democracy, and Technologies: Possibilities and Challenges.” Speakers will include representatives from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, WITNESS, and a co-founder of the Zone9 blogging collective. Details: Media, Democracy, and Technologies: Possibilities and… Continue reading →
On Friday, February 20, the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics will be hosting a symposium on “Living Data: Inhabiting New Media,” addressing the timely topics of new media theory, data histories, network culture, and information ecologies in an interdisciplinary format. The symposium will be held at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and features keynote speaker Wendy… Continue reading →
The beginning of winter quarter brought a number of new referral projects to InTRO, due in part to increased outreach efforts! Six new projects came our way this month. Four of these projects have been completed, one other has been referred out. One project, in progress, is waiting for responses to plan and proceed, Our referrals… Continue reading →
Spooky! Want to know more about the “dark web” or “deep web”? On Friday, February 27, the Digital Scholarship Center will be hosting Robert Gehl from the University of Utah for a talk on Dark Web Social Networks. While the “dark web” has been in existence for quite some time, the integration of social media… Continue reading →
Looking to enliven your teaching this quarter? Check out this upcoming workshop from the Teaching Effectiveness Program! Blended Courses: Combining Online with Face-to-Face Instruction Week 8: Fri, Feb. 27 2:00-3:30pm, Proctor 42, Knight Library Facilitator: Robert Voelker-Morris Discover how courses combine face-to-face instruction with online teaching in ways that increase student engagement and learning. Participants… Continue reading →
Curious about physical computing? Want to play around with “sensors, blinkers, and bits”? Want to try programming an awesome little Arduino? On Friday, February 6, the Digital Scholarship Center will be hosting an Introduction to Physical Computing Workshop, where participants will learn the basics of the Arduino Uno. This event is open to all UO faculty, staff,… Continue reading →
2014-15 Wayne Morse Chair for Law and Politics, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, will lecture tomorrow on “From Publics to Networks.” Prof. Chun is professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, and the author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT, 2006) and Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT 2011). Details: Wendy Hui Kyong… Continue reading →
On Thursday, January 29, the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics will host a screening of The Internet’s Own Boy. Partially funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign, the film is the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz’s help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his… Continue reading →
December brought the InTRO team time and space to finalize some early projects and to get prepared for winter quarter, with a revamped website and new ticketing system. Over the next few months we will continue to inventory UO services and instructional technology needs, and conduct comparator research to set this information in context. One big highlight… Continue reading →
This week, join the department of Computer and Information Science for this talk from a member of the CASIT staff! From Research Support to Uncertainty: Visualization at the U of O Kristi Potter, University of Oregon Abstract As a member of CASIT’s research support team I have a unique position that allows me to work on… Continue reading →
