Monthly Archives: October 2009

Another Monday, another rescheduled office hour

CORRECTION: office hours will proceed as usual on the 2nd, but are cancelled a week from next Monday, on the 9th of November. Apologies for the inconvenience.

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Facebook Fallout

COMS minors will notice a couple familiar names in the comments.

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No Prof’s Office Hours M 26 October

Alas, I’ve been scheduled into a meeting. Wednesday’s office hours will be 1-2 as usual.

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Wednesday, 28 Oct: We’re doing class like it’s 1999

As part of our unit on technology, we’re doing to do class next Wednesday like it’s 1999. That means no laptops (unless I get a letter from disability resources and services that you need one), and of course no taking … Continue reading

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Student Association Opportunity for COMS minors

[The AHSA is super active and receives some support from the department. As we are a department of Art History and Communication Studies, they are hoping to get some communication studies minors involved and to start developing CS-themed activities] To … Continue reading

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Update to Class Schedule

Reading and Schedule page has now been updated to take you to the end of the term.  PLEASE NOTE that some final adjustments will be made.  They will be announced here. Also, for this Wednesday, please be sure to read … Continue reading

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AUS Peer Tutoring Program

The AUS Peer Tutoring Program is a free and voluntary based peer tutoring service that provides tutoring on an individual or group basis by matching a student who has requested tutoring for a course with a qualified student who has … Continue reading

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Correct URL for Monday’s boyd reading

First Monday has a bad habit of changing their links around.  This url should work for the boyd essay: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1418/1336

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Volunteer Position Available

Volunteer Position- Art Souterrain On the 27th of February, 2010, Art Souterrain will launch the largest contemporary art exposition ever seen in Montreal. For fifteen consecutive days Montreal’s underground city will be transformed by the works of one-hundred renown artists … Continue reading

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Distinction in Social Networking

danah boyd talks about “white flight” and Facebook vs. MySpace. We’ll be reading her on social networking in a couple weeks but this is an interesting preview and a bridge to Bourdieu.

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