So I’ve been thinking a lot recently about fandom, for a couple of reasons. One is that I have, for a long time, been really invested in being a fan of various K-pop groups. In December, I went to a concert of a group I really like, and I had this sort of existential crisis…
This is an update to an earlier AI policy statement, but with some additions of my AI policy in-person verbally given; and what I’m doing currently to try to decrease inappropriate AI usage. This also riffs on a previous blog post that I made about AI in the university classroom. Verbal policy Verbally – this…
Oh what a few years it has been with AI. This is built off of my previous statement. But after reading Teaching with AI, I thought more about the authors’ discussion of AI producing C-level work and that the “new” standards should be better than AI. Those authors argue that instead of banning AI, we…
Ah, the winter of 2023 – after ChatGPT publicly launched in November 2022, university instructors everywhere had a collective freakout when everyone realized that students could engage in all sorts of misconduct in an entirely new way. Certainly academic misconduct was always a part of our jobs, but this was different. AI-facilitated misconduct was more…
This is what it feels like to be teaching sometimes (made with Bing Image Creator, powered by Dall-E) It seems that all I can think about lately is AI in the classroom. I wanted to share my summer 2023 AI/LLM policy statement for my class. Feel free to use with attribution. Important to note: Artificial…
Although my research is primarily about technology and inequality in Armenia and Azerbaijan, I do dabble occasionally in studying games. Also all of my teaching, undergrad and grad, is on broader technology and society, so I keep up with the research. I got into Wordle like many others did in January 2022 and I tweeted…
These are questions that are asked of me regarding self-funded professional masters programs in marketing and communication. I’m skipping the questions regarding how well I know the person, etc. These questions are to be answered in addition to a full letter. Program A’s questions Please rate the applicant in the following areas: Motivation Analytical skills…
Word and page limits exist for a reason, but they present a challenge. These are my top tips for trimming manuscripts down. Cut references I know that this can be really difficult but these take up a lot of space. Hopefully you’re using a reference manager already, so cutting is a bit easier. What I…
It has been awhile since I last blogged about Facebook use in the Caucasus. Again, here is a guide to how I get these data. Click on the tags for previous rates – here’s September 2017, here is May 2018. Here is December 2018. As of March 2020, there are about 1,500,000 Facebook users in…
With the move toward online learning all over the world, someone asked me about Internet access in Armenia. The most recent publicly available data that we have is from the 2017 Caucasus Barometer. Here are a few relevant statistics. Please note that the survey respondents are a mix of household answers (like owning a computer)…