It has been an eventful news cycle for Arizona State University. Last week they announced a partnership with Starbucks employees that went from press release to critical analysis in about 48 hours. I chimed in with a few thoughts on a public college extracting revenue from Starbucks employees. It turns out that the public university willRead More “Walking Without Papers at ASU, The “New American University””
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Lattes and Letters
This week Starbucks and Arizona State University announced a joint tuition-degree type-ish plan. I am not sure what to call it because it’s a hybrid of what we consider employee sponsored tuition reimbursement plans, workforce development programs at universities, and some kind of technofuturist vision of higher education access. So, in the way of myRead More “Lattes and Letters”
Writing in Public: Social Media, Identity, and Getting Er Done
I’ve been working on a larger project about social groups and digital media. At some point a few dozen people suggested I use data from my blog. And so I’ve been coding comments, content and mapping media relationships for a couple of months now. This weekend I posted a draft paper I workshopped with myRead More “Writing in Public: Social Media, Identity, and Getting Er Done”