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Caspar Weinberger

I've got yet another publishing milestone to my name this year: my first academic book review is up on the Teachers College Record website. It's a review of Ian Bogost's book Unit Operations. The review is only up on the site for free for a week before it goes to members only, so don't put this off til next week if you can't make time now!

So, following up on my post about the certification exam, I am now partly certified to begin the doctoral process at TC! I got my letter saying I passed the exam, and the faculty who read my paper went out of their way to tell me they thought it went quite well. So now I am partly certified to comment on and/or teach about all this crap. Remaining steps for certification include doing a pilot study for my dissertation and turning in my doctoral study plan.

My first article published in an academic journal is now up online. The journal is Fibreculture, an Australian journal which is online only. The article springs from the work I presented at the University of Tampere, Finland, two years back, which originally started in Chuck Kinzer's Social Software class; it's on Dance Dance Revolution players and how they draw on global networks (I'm enamored of Bruno Latour and think he works well with Manuel Castells) to define how the game should be danced.