Asst. Professor, Integrative & Global Studies / Director, Great Problems Seminar @WPI
Facilitator of educational experiences. Researcher of our world. A local+global citizen. A good egg.
Research interests: #globalcitizenship #ethics #health #CEnR #PBL #digitalsociology #communityscience #publicinteresttech
Sitting in the co-working space in Berlin when "One" pops onto the radio. This feels right.
Perfect way to kick off #AACU2023 with the brilliant Anna Deavere Smith. Her embodiment and the emotion of the stories she tells - through the words of those who are "screaming to be heard" - not voiceless - is a strong reminder of our work as educators and humans.
https://www.ted.com/talks/anna_deavere_smith_four_american_characters?language=en via @TED
@shannonmattern And understanding what metrics got you there to deem it a "failure". By what measure, what was the context, and whose metrics are you using? This is the kind of stuff we grapple in community-engaged learning and research all the time. The #ImaginingAmerica APPS group has been concerned with the exact case questions you raise here: https://imaginingamerica.org/what-we-do/collaborative-research/assessing-the-practices-of-publicly-engaged-scholars/
Link to MJCSL paper: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mjcsloa;c=mjcsl;c=mjcsloa;idno=3239521.0023.110;g=mjcslg;rgn=main;view=text;xc=1
Link to (incredibly long) white paper: https://imaginingamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/DEA-WhitePaper_FINAL.pdf
I published this piece in the L.A. Times today. The editing process stripped a lot of the nuance I originally had about Mastodon's architecture because most of its readers aren't here. So it's simplified. Read this more as a challenge for how we build rather than come back with edge case counterfactuals; networks are people. All alts have tradeoffs. What we sometimes lack is awareness of how design affects our options.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-12-02/twitter-alternatives-2022-musk-purchase
Non-paywalled at Yahoo: https://news.yahoo.com/op-ed-thinking-leaving-twitter-110146071.html
If you download your #Twitter archive it arrives wrapped as a static HTML page, which is not very useful for doing anything with, and worse: it requires the original account to be still active to do useful things like enlarge the images since they use t.co links.
So here's a #Python script to convert a Twitter archive to #markdown or other formats: https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser
Now you can archive your tweets in any way you want.
Testing out the waters here. I saw a great prompt from @amardeepmsingh to get me started:
What's an example of a food that was unknown to you as a child, but which, now, is something you've come to love?
I have an adventurous eater family - in NJ - so proximity & options were on my side. Except:
Real oatmeal.
I had only known it as the maple brown sugary sweet, over-the-top packets. What I found as I grew up is that it can be sweet, savory, spicy and a perfect canvas for creativity.
Shannon Mattern
Roopika Risam
Jeremy J. Littau
Tim Hutton