I’m looking forward to joining a great group of speakers for this exciting event at Simmons College, titled “Free Speech, Civil Discourse, and Libraries” on Tuesday, March 13th at 6pm.
Month: January 2018
New Article by Sharon Strover on Rural Broadband
Sharon Strover (UT Austin) just published an excellent article over at The Conversation on the broadband challenges facing rural Americans. In the article, she mentions some of what we’ve learned through our research funded through a grant from the US Institute of Museum and Library Services to understand how rural libraries address the challenges of…
Social Informatics Spring 2018
I’m looking forward to teaching Social Informatics again this semester at Simmons SLIS. I’m using my module on Critical Informatics at the beginning of the course as an opportunity to incorporate a few new topics this year, including Feminist Theories of Technology, Black Cyberfeminism, and Design Justice, building on other critical theoretical perspectives in LIS. Here…