Tag: social media

Curricular guidance from social media: #gistribe in action

For the past two years, I have presented a GIS/mapping workshop as part of Paideia — in 60-ish minutes, aiming to give the Reed community an introduction into the concepts of spatial analysis, basic cartography and critical map reading, and how they might start approaching analytical and/or spatial projects of their own.

This year I decided to split this into two sessions — one focused on GIS as a tool, another focused more on mapmaking and less on data and/or analysis. Continue reading “Curricular guidance from social media: #gistribe in action”

杨澜：The Generation that's remaking China

  Microblogs came into China in 2009 and this social platform has grown tremendously in the past several years. With most Microblog users being young people (under 30), this generation (born in the 80’s and 90’s) has shown great influence…

Microblogs came into China in 2009 and this social platform has grown tremendously in the past several years. With most Microblog users being young people (defined as under 30), and of this generation (born in the 80’s and 90’s), microblogs have shown great influence in China in both social and political aspects.

Yang Lan (Wikipedia), a famous journalist, TV show host, and entrepreneur gave a TED Talk on this phenomenon. (For more on social media and how it can affect change, see this TED Talk from Clay Shirky.)