Steve Anderson

The Future of (Mediated) Scholarship workshop series for graduate students continues Friday, February 27 at 2:00 p.m. with Session 2: You, Online, a multi-session workshop on the ways in which graduate students might consider crafting an online presence. Open to all USC grad students, this workshop looks at the array of social networking options, scholarly blogs and faculty Web sites to point out options for creating a productive online identity.
Questions? Please email Holly Willis. RSVPs appreciated. Read on for full schedule...

The Future of (Mediated) Scholarship
A Three-Part Workshop for USC Graduate Students
Session 2: You, Online
February 27 / 2pm - 5pm
Institute for Multimedia Literacy
746 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90089

2:00 – 2:30: Workshop Overview
By Steve Anderson
What are the various ways in which you might represent yourself online? What are the pros and cons of each venue or platform, and what should students keep in mind as they plan their presence?

2:30 – 3:00: Web Site Case Study
By Vanessa Schwartz
One mode for establishing a scholarly Web presence is via an online portfolio site listing current research interests, projects, courses, syllabi and publications. In this session, Vanessa Schwartz will trace a series of decisions that she made in crafting her portfolio Web site.

3:00 – 4:00: Introduction to Wordpress
By Jeff Watson
Wordpress offers an easy-to-use blogging and publishing platform, allowing users to either start blogging or craft a portfolio site. This introduction to Wordpress will teach participants how to get started, and will benefit both first-time users and those hoping to modify their existing Wordpress site.

4:00 – 5:00 Zotero or Social Networking or Hands-on With Wordpress
Participants are invited to split into one of three lab sessions:
• The Zotero Workshop will introduce this easy-to-use bibliographic tool.
• The Social Networking Workshop will introduce social bookmarking, basic blogging and micro-blogging.
• The Hands-on Wordpress session will address more complicated aspects of Wordpress modification, building on the earlier session.

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The Blur + Sharpen Screening series presents: "Time Out of Place"
Thursday, February 26 at 8:00pm in SCA 108

The city becomes both a focal point and the backdrop for a series of videos made over the last decade that reflect a fascination with urban space, movement, mapping and the possibility of art. Highlights include Thomson & Craighead’s “desktop documentary” titled Flat Earth, Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt’s Time Out of Place, which attempts to portray the city’s past, present and future simultaneously, and the usual array of music videos and design shorts.

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UC Santa Cruz-based software designer and theorist Warren Sack will present a talk titled "Software Studies" tomorrow morning at 11:00 at the Annenberg Research Park (Kerckhoff Hall) colloquium series: "Since software design is a process of writing, the “computer revolution” can be understood as the rewriting of the world. One can identify a minor literature, within computer science, that has been premised on an understanding of software designers as writers, as essayists, as those who articulate ideas in code to communicate with other people. In other words, within this minor literature, computers are understood not just as tools but also as media that connect and separate people. Software studies is an emerging area in which code is examined as a digital medium. In this presentation I want to introduce software studies, examine its history in computer science, and compare it to analogous work in science studies, media studies, and cultural studies."

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