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94° Mercoledì di Nexa Mercoledì 8 febbraio 2017, ore 18.00 - 20.00Politecnico di Torino An Integrated Domain: visions of a Connected FutureSpeaker Jim Groom (Reclaim Hosting)This event will be webcast live: http://nexa.polito.it/upcoming-events |
Visions of the future are often framed by the technologies that shape them. This is readily apparent in popular culture’s treatment of the future over the past 50 years. Several recurring themes of these fictional projections have become contemporary concerns in 2017: the specter of artificial intelligence, the rise of robots, virtual worlds, and the existential question of self in an increasingly distributed and fragmented reality. All of which points to an increasingly technological mediation of both reality and identity, raising the larger question of how we are managing these changes culturally. Are we teaching people to interrogate the way news is presented on social media? Are we teaching students to understand the basic infrastructure of the internet? Are we beginning to examine the ever-changing fault lines of the reality that is framed for us on the web? This talk will examine one small project called Domain of One’s Own happening at various universities and colleges in North America, Great Britain, and Australia that empowers faculty, students, and staff to both manage and control their online digital presence through an integrated online domain. An initiative that frames education as fundamental to preparing an entire generation for the shifting notions of identity and reality that that will everywhere shape our connected future. |
BIOGRAFIE - e informazioni supplementari
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JIM GROOM is the co-founder of Reclaim
Hosting, an independent web hosting company
focused on the higher education community.
Previously he was the Executive Director of
the Division of Teaching and Learning
Technologies and adjunct professor at the
University of Mary Washington in
Fredericksburg, Virginia. He has been part of
a number of exciting projects at the
University of Mary Washington. In 2006 he
started the web-based educational publishing
platform ELS Blogs for the English Linguistics
and Speech department at UMW. This pilot
project led to the development of UMW Blogs in
2007 which has since become an enterprise
level academic publishing platform. In 2008
the madness that was EDUPUNK was attributed to
a series of posts he wrote on his personal
blog. In 2010 he re-imagined the Computer
Science 106 course on Digital Storytelling at
UMW as an open, online community referred to
as ds106—an experiment in teaching and
learning on the web that is still going strong
and has been celebrated internationally as a
compelling community-based approach to online
learning. Additionally, he also helped
spearhead an initiative at the University of
Mary Washington called A Domain of One’s Own
that, starting in Fall 2013, provided all
incoming Freshman their own domain and web
hosting account. In 2015 he left Mary
Washington to work full-time for Reclaim
Hosting, a company he co-founded that helps
individuals, groups, and institutions reclaim
the web from the corporate silos. Finally, he
writes regularly about his work in educational
technology–in addition to several other
interests such as film, literature, and media
of all kinds–on his home away from home: bavatuesdays.com. |
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Che cosa sono il Centro Nexa e i cicli di incontri “Mercoledì di Nexa” e “Nexa Lunch Seminar” |
Il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino (Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica) è un centro di ricerca indipendente e interdisciplinare che studia Internet e il suo effetto sulla società. Maggiori informazioni all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/about. Durante i “Mercoledì di Nexa”, che si tengono ogni 2° mercoledì del mese alle ore 18 in punto, il Centro Nexa su Internet e Società apre le sue porte non solo agli esperti e a tutti coloro i quali lavorano con Internet, ma anche a semplici appassionati e cittadini. Il ciclo di incontri intende approfondire, con un linguaggio preciso ma divulgativo, i temi legati alla Rete: motori di ricerca, Creative Commons, social networks, open source/software libero, neutralità della rete, libertà di espressione, privacy, file sharing, big e open data, smart cities e molto altro. Al centro di quasi tutti gli incontri un ospite pronto a dialogare con i direttori del Centro Nexa, il Prof. Juan Carlos De Martin del Politecnico di Torino e il Prof. Marco Ricolfi dell'Università di Torino, nonché lo staff e i Fellows del Centro Nexa. Maggiori informazioni sui Mercoledì di Nexa, incluso un elenco di tutti i “Mercoledì” passati, sono disponibili all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi. Si segnala inoltre che dal maggio 2012 ogni 4° mercoledì del mese dalle ore 13 alle ore 14 il Centro Nexa organizza anche i "Nexa Lunch Seminar". Una lista di tutti i “Lunch Seminar” passati è disponibile all'indirizzo: http://nexa.polito.it/lunch-seminars. |
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