The Machine in the Garden

Social Networking and the Humanities

Humanities Matter!
October 2009
Laura Crossett

image by Steven Laurie

find Laura online

• newrambler.net
• Twitter
• FriendFeed (and while you're there, why not read Shakespeare with us?)
• Flickr
• Facebook

further reading

• FriendFeed thread from the presentation with greetings and recommendations of humanities people using social media
• new! Digital Humanities Now a crowdsourced publication that "takes the pulse of the digital humanities community," started in November 2009
• Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship by danah m. boyd and Nicole B. Ellison
• and, for that matter, anything else by danah boyd
• the Pew Internet & American Life Project gathers a lot of data on social software use