January 10, 2010
At Language Scholars' Convention, Social Media Amplify the Discourse
Twitter moves scholarly communication beyond annual meeting's sessions and papers
Mark Sample on wordle.net
One day's Twitter stream from the MLA convention is captured in the word cloud above—the bigger the word, the more frequently it was used.
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Mark Sample on wordle.net
One day's Twitter stream from the MLA convention is captured in the word cloud above—the bigger the word, the more frequently it was used.
Philadelphia
What was the big story at this year's Modern Language Association convention, during New Year's weekend in Philadelphia? Was it translation, the theme chosen by the MLA's president, Catherine Porter? Was it the digital humanities, the pull of which drew overflow crowds to too-small conference rooms and helped create a snappy back-channel conversation on Twitter (hashtag #mla09)? Was it the hardships of contingent faculty members like Brian Croxall (@briancroxall on Twitter), a visiting
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