Jim Groom
(Reclaim Hosting)

Mercoledì 8 febbraio 2017, ore 17.00 – 19.00

Centro Nexa su Internet & Società
Politecnico di Torino, via Boggio 65/a, Torino (1° piano)
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Visions of the future are often framed by the technologies that shape them. This is readily apparent in popular culture’s treatment of the future over the past 50 years. Several recurring themes of these fictional projections have become contemporary concerns in 2017: the specter of artificial intelligence, the rise of robots, virtual worlds, and the existential question of self in an increasingly distributed and fragmented reality. All of which points to an increasingly technological mediation of both reality and identity, raising the larger question of how we are managing these changes culturally.
Are we teaching people to interrogate the way news is presented on social media? Are we teaching students to understand the basic infrastructure of the internet? Are we beginning to examine the ever-changing fault lines of the reality that is framed for us on the web? This talk will examine one small project called Domain of One’s Own happening at various universities and colleges in North America, Great Britain, and Australia that empowers faculty, students, and staff to both manage and control their online digital presence through an integrated online domain. An initiative that frames education as fundamental to preparing an entire generation for the shifting notions of identity and reality that will everywhere shape our connected future.
Biografia

Jim Groom is the co-founder of Reclaim Hosting, an independent web hosting company focused on the higher education community. Previously he was the Executive Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
He has been part of a number of exciting projects at the University of Mary Washington. In 2006 he started the web-based educational publishing platform ELS Blogs for the English Linguistics and Speech department at UMW. This pilot project led to the development of UMW Blogs in 2007 which has since become an enterprise level academic publishing platform. In 2008 the madness that was EDUPUNK was attributed to a series of posts he wrote on his personal blog.
In 2010 he re-imagined the Computer Science 106 course on Digital Storytelling at UMW as an open, online community referred to as ds106—an experiment in teaching and learning on the web that is still going strong and has been celebrated internationally as a compelling community-based approach to online learning. Additionally, he also helped spearhead an initiative at the University of Mary Washington called A Domain of One’s Own that, starting in Fall 2013, provided all incoming Freshman their own domain and web hosting account.
In 2015 he left Mary Washington to work full-time for Reclaim Hosting, a company he co-founded that helps individuals, groups, and institutions reclaim the web from the corporate silos.
Finally, he writes regularly about his work in educational technology–in addition to several other interests such as film, literature, and media of all kinds–on his home away from home: bavatuesdays.com.
Letture consigliate e link utili
- Jon Udell, A Domain of One’s Own.
- Audrey Watters, A Domain of One’s Own in a Post-Ownership Society.
- Jim Groom, Domain of Online Scholarly Presence.
- Andrew Rikard, Do I Own My Domain if You Grade It?
- Martha Burtis, Making, Breaking, and Rethinking Domain of One’s Own