opportunity to reach a wide audience
The major problems with the Obamacare and, less reported (but no less anguished if you are a high school senior or parent of one)Common Application websites offer an opportunity for an op-ed via History News Service (http://historynewsservice.org/submission-guidelines/)or History News Network (http://hnn.us/submissions.html) to reach a wider audience than we normally find. What perspective could a historian of computing offer on these semi-failures (and possibly similar online fiascoes)? What guidance or commentary could help shape public and policy reactions? Take advantage of this post-shutdown opportunity. Jonathan -- Jonathan Coopersmith Associate Professor Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4326 979.845.7151 979.862.4314 fax http://aggiegaijin.blogspot.com/
Another example from my locale: Seattle Public Schools changed their student allocation software, and for reasons that remain unexplained (and probably deliberately well-obfuscated) the roll-out left students attending high school on the first day with no class schedule. Those (including my daughter) were the lucky ones: some did not know to which school they had been allocated/accepted. Great question, Jonathan. :-) Cheers -- Ian On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Jonathan Coopersmith < j-coopersmith@neo.tamu.edu> wrote:
The major problems with the Obamacare and, less reported (but no less anguished if you are a high school senior or parent of one)Common Application websites offer an opportunity for an op-ed via History News Service (http://historynewsservice.org/submission-guidelines/)or History News Network (http://hnn.us/submissions.html) to reach a wider audience than we normally find. What perspective could a historian of computing offer on these semi-failures (and possibly similar online fiascoes)? What guidance or commentary could help shape public and policy reactions?
Take advantage of this post-shutdown opportunity.
Jonathan
-- Jonathan Coopersmith Associate Professor Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4326 979.845.7151 979.862.4314 fax http://aggiegaijin.blogspot.com/
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Hi all: There's an article on Slate (that I haven't read, but the Dish linked to it) that would tie into questions about the "obligatory point of passage" between design teams. http://www.slate.com/articles/business/bitwise/2013/10/what_went_wrong_with_... I have just submitted something to HNN about the government shutdown and the role of government in regulating the market mechanism in futures trading, so I'm not available to write this thing. Someone should, though. Barbara + + + + + Dr. Barbara Hahn Associate Editor, Technology and Culture Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies History Department Texas Tech University Box 41013 Lubbock TX 79409-1013 806-742-3744 fax 806-742-1060 http://ttu.academia.edu/BarbaraHahn ________________________________ From: members-bounces@sigcis.org [members-bounces@sigcis.org] on behalf of Ian S. King [isking@uw.edu] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 3:43 PM To: Jonathan Coopersmith Cc: SIGCIS Subject: Re: [SIGCIS-Members] opportunity to reach a wide audience Another example from my locale: Seattle Public Schools changed their student allocation software, and for reasons that remain unexplained (and probably deliberately well-obfuscated) the roll-out left students attending high school on the first day with no class schedule. Those (including my daughter) were the lucky ones: some did not know to which school they had been allocated/accepted. Great question, Jonathan. :-) Cheers -- Ian On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Jonathan Coopersmith <j-coopersmith@neo.tamu.edu<mailto:j-coopersmith@neo.tamu.edu>> wrote: The major problems with the Obamacare and, less reported (but no less anguished if you are a high school senior or parent of one)Common Application websites offer an opportunity for an op-ed via History News Service (http://historynewsservice.org/submission-guidelines/)or History News Network (http://hnn.us/submissions.html) to reach a wider audience than we normally find. What perspective could a historian of computing offer on these semi-failures (and possibly similar online fiascoes)? What guidance or commentary could help shape public and policy reactions? Take advantage of this post-shutdown opportunity. Jonathan -- Jonathan Coopersmith Associate Professor Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4326 979.845.7151<tel:979.845.7151> 979.862.4314<tel:979.862.4314> fax http://aggiegaijin.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org<mailto:members@sigcis.org>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members -- Ian S. King, MSCS ('06, Washington) Ph.D. Student The Information School University of Washington "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde
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