Tag: digital

  • Nation & World

    Sounding off for noises on

    In Carpenter Center discussion, musicians Amanda Palmer and Damon Krukowski talk about what’s been lost in the transition from analog to digital recording.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    New VP for public affairs and communications

    Paul Andrew has been appointed the University’s vice president for public affairs and communications, President Drew Faust announced today. As vice president, Andrew will guide the University’s work not only in communications but also in public affairs, including government and community relations, as well as the digital domain.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A peek at Harvard’s future

    Maya Jasanoff and her faculty colleagues gathered at the Tsai Auditorium on Feb. 16 and March 7 to consider how the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) may look in a generation. The discussions were part of the Conversations @ FAS series, which this year asks some of Harvard’s leading scholars to imagine the faculty…

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Library Board names executive director

    The Harvard Library Board today (Dec. 20) named Helen Shenton as the first executive director of the new Harvard Library, turning to a veteran of the British Library to develop a more coordinated management structure for the oldest library in the Western Hemisphere.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    By the numbers

    Thanks to the digital revolution, Harvard is developing a legion of cyberspace fans in the world of social media.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Digital drive

    Across the University, digitization is rapidly changing the nature of scholarship, opening doors to information and collaboration, and redefining research and education.

    15 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Understanding health care reform

    With the debate on health care reform slowing after its passage, media outlets now turn to explaining how the massive legislation will be implemented.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Benton named digital editor at Nieman Foundation

    The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has appointed Joshua Benton editor of its new Digital Journalism Project. A 2008 Nieman Fellow and former staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News, Benton will oversee the initiative designed to help journalists excel in the digital media age.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    ‘Digital immigrants’ teaching ‘digital natives’

    Students coming into universities today are “digital natives” and fundamentally different in their use of technology than the “digital immigrants” who teach them, according to John Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

    3 minutes