EnemyGraph. Education. Done. Right.
David Parry,
AcademHacK,
Mar 30, 2012
Great line: "Q:How do you know you are succeeding as a program? A: When you are up at 4:00am watching a project your students and faculty built spread around the globe, being discussed in languages you can’t even identify." I'm not up at 4:00 a.m. much any more these days, but I can certainly identify with the excitement being felt by the creators of EnemyGraph as word of the project spreads. But more interesting than the technology is the thinking behind it: "Facebook has become a private corporate space which dominates our public and civic lives... Facebook is quite literally engineering social relations." EnemyGraph subverts that. And more: it not only subverts new media, it subverts old learning. "Sure we can keep asking our students to write papers for us interpreting some 18th century text, analyze some obscure symbolism, and give them an audience of one, or at most an audience of 20 at some conference. But give me one EnemyGraph as a learning project over 1,000 antiquated research papers any day."
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