a paradox in librarianship

I’ve been reading and thinking a lot about literacy lately, as maybe you can guess from my recent-ish posts. Deep into Gunther Kress’ Literacy in the New Media Age, I find myself analyzing the structure of what I read and write, and especially outside of literary contexts.
Recently at organic gardening class for example, I [...]

debutantes, nurses and librarians, part 2

So the Joker shoots Barbara Gordon, who ends up paralyzed in the Killing Joke. And it gets interesting right away because that’s not the end of Babs’ career as a crime-fighter. No, specifically because she is a librarian, specifically because she’s got the mad information skills she doesn’t lose the superhero mojo when [...]

debutantes, nurses and… librarians

So this post dovetails with a conversation Shaun and I have been having about gender and comic heroes and science geekery. Southern Fried Scientist is trying to answer this question here -
Why do heroes so rarely hold advanced degrees? And why are villains so often among the highly educated?
And there are bigger cultural questions, [...]

Notes from our Online NW talk - Soapbox, Echo Chamber & Salon…

Soapbox, echo chamber, and salon: Social media and civic engagement
Rachel Bridgewater & Anne-Marie Deitering
Online Northwest, 2009

Media Use & Civic Engagement data
Pew Internet and American Life project

Post-Election voter engagement (12/30/08)
The Internet and the 2008 election (6/15/08)
The Internet gains in politics (1/11/08)

Huffington Post and Politico lead wave of explosive growth at independent political blogs and news sites [...]