Category: Community & Cultural Organizations

  • Cotton Candy, Magic, and Making Space

    Cotton Candy, Magic, and Making Space

    How can we better include voices, perspectives, and practitioners that are not regularly recognized or celebrated? What is possible when we prioritize care and love in spaces where this is not traditionally explored? And what happens when we make cotton candy in an academic library? NC State University‘s Making Space Event Series, based in the […]

  • [Design Justice – Chapter 4] Placing co-production: How to make genuinely inclusive spaces of contemporary design?

    [Design Justice – Chapter 4] Placing co-production: How to make genuinely inclusive spaces of contemporary design?

    Placing co-production: How to make genuinely inclusive spaces of contemporary design? A review of Costanza-Chock, S. (2020). Design Sites: Hackerspaces, Fablabs, Hackathons, and DiscoTechs in Design justice: Community-led practices to build the worlds. The MIT Press. Chapter 4. The relation between production and place is what Constanza-Chock explores in this chapter. But not any production […]

  • Marbles Kids Museum

    Marbles Kids Museum

    Marbles Kids Museum in Raleigh, North Carolina For the past several months, I have worked with Marbles Kids Museum – a children’s museum that prioritizes learning and holistic development through play.  Below is the museum’s mission statement: Marbles sparks imagination, discovery and learning through play. Marbles has 5 core initiatives:  Ready Set Learn. Play builds intellectual, social […]

  • Frames

    Frames by Bri Alexander Frozen in framing your messages convene conveying a meaning that’s not necessarily what you mean. But intentions don’t live here, here in the frame, and how that affects us is not always the same. — It’s not simply a symptom of “oh, you misunderstood,” a misinterpretation, a “read it again, if […]

  • New book explores the social, institutional and user impacts of e-legal deposit

    New book explores the social, institutional and user impacts of e-legal deposit

    Facet Publishing announce the publication of Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future, edited by Paul Gooding and Melissa Terras   Legal deposit libraries, the national and academic institutions who systematically preserve our written cultural record, have recently been mandated with expanding their collection practices to include digitised and born-digital materials. Although […]

  • The History of West New York, New Jersey

    The History of West New York, New Jersey

      When coming into the town of West New York, New Jersey, mainly the street of Bergenline Avenue, you can instantly tell many of the people in this town are from South or Central America. While I was walking around, I noticed I usually was never alone. There is always someone walking, running, or driving […]

  • The suffer of COVID-19

    The suffer of COVID-19

    My name is Fadi Sobhy, and I am a freshman at New Jersey City University taking an ordinary English class. I am majoring in biomedical engineering. I am so nervous about college and how independent I am expected to be. In addition to being responsible for my own academic career for the next 4 to […]

  • New book presents mapping as a tool for developing information literacy

    New book presents mapping as a tool for developing information literacy

    Facet Publishing announces the publication of Mapping Information Landscapes: New Methods for Exploring the Development and Teaching of Information Literacy by Andrew Whitworth. Written by a leading researcher in the field, this book investigates how teachers and learners can use mapping in developing their ability to make informed judgements about information, in specific places and […]

  • Digital Friday Recap: Enriching STEM: Creating Equity in and Beyond the Lab

    Digital Friday Recap: Enriching STEM: Creating Equity in and Beyond the Lab

    In the sciences, because we are working to better understand the world and systems within it, a diversity of opinions and viewpoints is absolutely necessary, especially in light of the notorious lack of diversity that can be seen throughout scientific history. In recent years, STEM fields have made important strides towards equity. For example many universities […]

  • Scholar Spotlight: Jesslyn Parrish

    Scholar Spotlight: Jesslyn Parrish

    Why did you apply to HASTAC?   I applied to HASTAC after learning about it from my professors within the Texts & Technology PhD program. The Texts & Technology program focuses on understanding the interdisciplinary possibilities between the humanities and technology. My background is in anthropology and applied linguistics, and I returned to graduate school to […]