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Browsing Digital Campus Podcasts by Issue Date

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  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 01 – Wikipedia: Friend or Foe? 
    Center for History and New Media (2007-03-06)
    In our inaugural podcast our feature story covers the controversy over whether Wikipedia is a useful or problematic resource for students. In the news roundup, we wonder if the launch of Windows Vista has any significance, ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 02 – The Old and the YouTube 
    Center for History and New Media (2007-03-21)
    In our second podcast, we revisit the debate over Wikipedia, including hearing from Mills about how Cambodians are using it (and whether you can find a WiFi signal in the jungle of Cambodia). Our feature story explores ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 03 – CI: Cyberinfrastructure 
    Center for History and New Media (2007-04-04)
    Our third podcast begins with some discussion of April Fools’ pranks, including a great one about Google acquiring the OCLC, and how blogs and the internet can foster hoaxes. This week’s feature takes a look at ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 04 – Welcome to the Social 
    Center for History and New Media (2007-04-17)
    Can social networking sites like Facebook play a productive role in the humanities? In this episode Dan plays the old fogey, while Tom and Mills talk about how to use these sites in an advantageous way. We also report on ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 05 – Tragedy and Technology 
    Center for History and New Media (2007-05-02)
    We take a break from our normal format to spend the entirety of this episode thinking about the role of technology—its great power to forge social bonds and enable a new kind of memorialization, as well as its unfortunate ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 06 – Designed to Make You Think 
    Center for History and New Media (2007-05-16)
    Web design guru Jeremy Boggs joins Dan, Tom, and Mills to discuss the past, present, and future of designing websites for academia, museums, and libraries. In the news roundup, we cover a number of situations where information ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 07 – History Appliances 
    Center for History and New Media (2007-05-30)
    Bill Turkel joins us on the podcast to discuss his fascinating work on “history appliances,” or the possibility of making history more real by creating physical environments and interfaces that truly immerse us in the past. ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 08 – Basic Training 
    Center for History and New Media (2007-06-13)
    How can you learn technical skills such as web design, programming, and related methods and technologies for work in the digital humanities? We tackle that difficult question on this week’s show, while also covering the ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 09 – Too Much Information 
    Center for History and New Media (2007-07-03)
    What are students, researchers, and librarians supposed to do with the tremendous volume of digitized scholarly materials now available to them? We discuss the problem of information overload in this week’s feature segment. ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 10 – Risky Business? Blogs on Campus, Part I 
    Center for History and New Media (2007-07-18)
    Dan, Mills, and Tom celebrate the tenth edition of Digital Campus with part one in a new series on blogs and blogging. In this episode, we take a look back at how we became bloggers, examine questions of subject matter, ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 11 – Risky Business? Blogs on Campus, Part II (fixed) 
    Center for History and New Media (2007-08-26)
    We continue our discussion of blogging, this time with a closer look at the challenges and difficulties of starting and maintaining a blog, attracting and keeping an audience, and making sure it doesn’t get in the way of ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 12 – Productivity and Connectivity 
    Center for History and New Media (2007-09-10)
    We begin the news roundup this week with a bit of embarrassing news from Dan, then dig into several stories about big media companies entering the online learning market and Google Books becoming more useful for scholarship. ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 13 – Everything in Moderation? 
    Center for History and New Media (2007-09-21)
    Is the moderated environment of email discussion lists still the best way for scholars to communicate with others in their field? Or is the time ripe to move those conversations onto blogs and less mediated and more open ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 14 – Where is the Art? 
    Center for History and New Media (2007-10-10)
    The second most frequently asked question at museums after “Where are the restrooms?” is “Where is the art?” In this episode we ask whether those artifacts belong on a museum’s website, and if so, how, as we debate the ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 15 – Exposing Yourself 
    Center for History and New Media (2007-11-05)
    Think Google is scary with all of the information it gathers about you through your web searches? Wait until Facebook starts its advertising platform based on all of the likes and dislikes you’ve given it, and combines ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 16 – Steal This E-Book 
    Center for History and New Media (2007-12-04)
    Amazon.com‘s release of its new e-book reader the Kindle has set off a frenzy of speculation about the future of books, reading, and publishing. The Digital Campus team debates the promise and problems of the Kindle and ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 17 – Can You Hear Me Now? 
    Center for History and New Media (2007-12-14)
    On this podcast we finally put to rest the Great Facebook Controversy of 2007. We tell listeners how to turn off Facebook’s intrusive Beacon advertising system, and note LinkedIn’s attempt to capitalize on Facebook’s ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 18 – Top Ten of 2007 
    Center for History and New Media (2007-12-24)
    The regulars close out the first calendar year of Digital Campus with a countdown of the top stories of 2007. In a year when lines formed for the iPhone, social networking went mainstream, Vista battled with Leopard (and ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 19 – Big Things in Small Packages 
    Center for History and New Media (2008-01-16)
    On our first podcast of the new year, we look at the rise of the small, cheap laptop and its significance for education and cultural sites. In addition to a full rundown of the latest news about the One Laptop Per Child ...
  • Digital Campus Podcast - Episode 20 – Open to Change 
    Center for History and New Media (2008-01-30)
    Are open educational resources such as iTunes U and thought-provoking dot-coms such as BigThink.com a distraction from the mission of professors and universities, or the wave of the future? Tom, Mills, and Dan debate the ...

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