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Illinois’ Tilley says Tweeting, Texting are GR8 tools for Teaching
The impact of text messaging on the decline of formal writing among teens has been debated in pedagogical circles ever since cell-phone ownership became an adolescent rite of passage in the mid-2000s. But according to Carol L. Tilley, a University of Illinois expert in media literacy, not only are critics who argue that texting is synonymous with literary degradation wrong, they also often overlook the bigger role that texting and its distant cousin, "tweeting," could play in education and research.
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Read more about this researchBerkeley’s Weber Focuses on Political Economy of Open Source Software
Weber's latest book, with co-author Jonathan Sallet, extends the analysis of the political economy of open source software to other technology sectors in the world economy and maps the consequences for economic growth and innovation. With colleague and co-author Bruce Jentleson at Duke, Weber directs the "New Era Foreign Policy Project" and is completing a book manuscript on "The New Age of Ideology" in world politics.
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Read more about this researchPlaying Games in the Library
Gone are the days of being “shhh’d” in the library. As library users have come to expect a more social environment when interacting with information, libraries have adapted to the point where quiet spaces are now the exception, and users wishing to quietly read find themselves in their own spaces behind protective glass. Libraries across the country are using board, card, and video games like Dance Dance Revolution—in which players follow illuminated arrows that tell them which way to move their feet—to service patrons in a whole new way, and School of Information Studies (iSchool) Professor Scott Nicholson is one of the major players investigating this transformation through the Library Game Lab of Syracuse (gamelab.syr.edu).