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Reflecting on the Symposium
Planning to steal Mikhail’s thunder at our upcoming staff meeting this Wednesday, here I am/writing to open up the blog space for reflections on our symposium. Please contribute. It was a good day,...
View ArticleGardner Teaches, Part I
This is the first in a series of posts presenting video from our 9th Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication-Intensive Instruction. We’re going to start off with four videos (we’ll publish...
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In this second segment from Gardner Campbell’s workshop “Speaker, Listener, Network: The Concept of Audience in a Web 2.0 World” from the 9th Annual Symposium on Commumication and...
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Tweetripper, or, Geeking Out After the Symposium
Following the conversation via Twitter. Photo by Alan Levine. If you attended the Symposium on May 1, you no doubt saw that Twitter played a major part in the event: as a topic of conversation (as in...
View ArticleGardner Teaches, Part 3
In this third segment from Gardner Campbell’s workshop “Speaker, Listener, Network: The Concept of Audience in a Web 2.0 World” from the 9th Annual Symposium on Commumication and...
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In this final segment from Gardner Campbell’s workshop “Speaker, Listener, Network: The Concept of Audience in a Web 2.0 World” from the 9th Annual Symposium on Commumication and...
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Two Cultures, Two Kinds of Audiences, and Two Forms of Communication
Tuning into the current stream of our collective reflection upon last Friday’s symposium, here I put in my two cents. Like my fellow attendees, I found Jeff Jarvis’s Google speech extremely exciting...
View ArticleDavid Birdsell’s Symposium Closing
In another of our series of videos from the 9th Annual Symposium, David Birdsell, Dean of Baruch’s School of Public Affairs, offers an incisive and cascading summation of the day’s conversation about...
View ArticleJeff Jarvis’s Keynote from the 9th Annual Symposium
Here’s Jeff Jarvis’s keynote address and Q&A session at the Schwartz Institute’s 9th Annual Symposium. He explains the argument that lay behind What Would Google Do?, explores the changing role of...
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Blackboard, This Song is Not About You: More on CUNY WordCampEd
It has been two weeks since the first ever CUNY WordCampEd, an event co-sponsored by us at the Schwartz Institute, New York City College of Technology, and the Macaulay Honors College. I have been...
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MOVEABLE TYPE
The forward-and-backward-oriented theme of the Institute’s upcoming tenth annual symposium–The Future of Communication: Where We’re Going, Where We’ve Been–captures the peculiar way nostalgia for old...
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Back to the Future
In 1968, Douglas Engelbart presented a 90 minute demo at the Fall Joint Computer Conference (FJCC) in San Francisco. He and his research team from the Augmentation Research Center at the Stanford...
View ArticleClay Shirky at the 2010 Symposium
We were very lucky to have Clay Shirky provide the morning keynote at our Tenth Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication Intensive Instruction. We were very unlucky in that we could not get...
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Storytelling and business ethics
Bernard L. Schwartz spoke at the Schwartz Communications Institute symposium on April 30th. “I’m a capitalist,” he said, and a “big D democrat.” Schwartz narrated the financial crisis from the...
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Technical Changes Causing Cultural Changes. Yes and/or No.
This blog post is prompted by Clay Shirky’s argument at our 10th Annual Symposium. In his keynote speech, Shirky addressed the fast technical advancement we are experiencing globally and argued that...
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Capitalism, critique and catastrophe
Shoting star and other dollar origami by Corey Comenitz http://www.corigami.com/Gallery_3.html I’m following John and David’s posts, both of which I think responded insightfully and eloquently to...
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The Qydz are alright
I suppose after Linell’s, John’s, and David’s timely and thoughtful responses to Grant McCracken’s Symposium keynote talk, it might be overkill or overdue to pitch in my inflation-adjusted But seeing...
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Evolve or Die
Image courtesy of http://thelearningnation.blogspot.com This year’s Symposium on Communication and Communication-Intensive Instruction, hosted by the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, was a...
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The means to produce
This was my first time attending the BLSCI Annual Symposium. I was pleasantly surprised, like David, that the business and the academic communities were so in step and eager to work together and learn...
View ArticleBaiting the Hook
Every other week during the semester the Institute staff meet to discuss the various projects and initiatives of the Institute, and the responsibility and concerns of the Fellows. But before those...
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