I saw this tonight, and I had to post it here. The local FOX station in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas recorded a segment satirizing social media called “The Fox 4 DFW Roast of Social Media.” It is unbelievably hilarious, but it also makes you think about just how much social media …

A friend of mine asked this question in a post online and because I could never the initial link that talked about this “vook,” I went in search of it myself. Here it is…a new stage of book development.

At first glance, this is very intriguing to me. The idea of …

Saw this image today while doing some research and thought, Very cool.

I have submitted my behemoth of a paper, “Where We Stand: On Being Mommy Bloggers of Color” to my professor. Am I happy with it? Actually, I think I am. There’s some good material there and in revisions, it will get better. Because I love Wordles so much, I of course …

Last night, I had the pleasure of talking with Ananda Leeke on her show, Sisterhood, the blog radio. She’s doing a women in social media series, and I was honored to be considered cool enough to be a guest. We talked about a slew of things in 30 minutes — …

What does your set of commonly used social media tools say about you as a participant of the human + machine culture? Give examples to illustrate.
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I will try anything once…just about.
That’s my short answer.
Here’s the longer answer.
I’m fairly immersed in the h+m culture. I’m a heavy participant. I remember ...

Great interview with online luminary Clay Shirky over at Salon.com in which he explains the new digital literary revolution and how the Web will change reading.
I have to print this as a PDF and take some notes because Shirky has some solid thoughts on technological and cultural change and “which …

Recently came across this post from film critic extraordinaire Roger Ebert’s journal about how Twitter has become useful to his happiness. I found the entry to be a great write-up on what Twitter can bring to your life – depending on how you plan to use it. Ebert writes about …

Part of what makes the Internet, particularly Web 2.0 (3.0, and beyond) so interesting is the ability for so many people to be creators of content. Even commenters on blogs and on news site can get their 15-minutes of fame by being regular responders.
Enter the new Yahoo! News blog: The …

Back in October, I was asked as part of a class to register on Second Life so that I could participate in class time activities. Up until that moment, I had heard of SL but I had never participated on it. I belonged to virtual communities, such as MySpace, Facebook, …

When I started at Texas Tech in August ’09 (just last semester though it feels much longer than that), I had a set agenda of what I wanted to study. I had spent the last four or five years of my life teaching underprepared and underrepresented college students basic writing, and …

Second paper down. One more to go before I finish up with some studies and then final exams.
This paper was for ENGL 5369, Discourse and Technology: Theories of Technology course.
Title: “Illuminating the ‘Mundane’ of Basic Writers through Micro-Blogging”
You can check out abstract, Works Cited, and the full course paper @ …

It is the beginning of the end. First paper done. And I couldn’t be happier. Can check out the abstract and paper [HERE]. Title of paper: “Making Space: Using Social Media to Create Participatory Virtual Worlds”
Here’s the Wordle of my paper…

I won’t even get into the huge idea I initially had for this paper. It was a topic better suited for a dissertation.
After weeks, months, I finally came to looking at the importance of using social media within the workplace.  Right now, I’m in the process of defining social media …