The Social Dynamics of TV Watching

Under the category of “And Now For Something Completely Different,” I thought I’d just note in passing that I have a new publication up, not about e-Science or Libraries or IP, but about Television.
Yes, Television.
More specifically, the paper is about streaming television and the social affordances of the viewing space.  I started thinking about this [...]

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New Pub: “Reinventing Science Librarianship: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum”

I’ve got a piece in the latest issue (the first issue, really) of Research Library Issues (previously the ARL Bimonthly Report) covering the takeaway points from last October’s forum on e-science and the future of science librarianship. The PDF has embedded audio from presentations by Rick Luce, Liz Lyon, and Cliff Lynch (oooo…multimeeeedia…) – that’s [...]

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“E-Science Talking Points for ARL Deans and Directors”…and you!

We just added a CC license to these ‘ere talking points (Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 3.0), so I thought I’d throw them up here in HTML, to complement the PDF available from ARL.  I hear they’re also being translated into Japanese!
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E-SCIENCE TALKING POINTS FOR ARL DEANS AND DIRECTORS
by Elisabeth Jones, University of Washington
with contributions from
Wendy Lougee, University of [...]

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Growth

It seems like such a short time ago that I was sitting around a little round table in UM Media Relations & Public Affairs, sifting through blog posts and working out talking points “buckets” about Google Book Search, with Molly Kleinman sitting right next to me doing much the same thing.  At the time, we [...]

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