Reporting my journey as a human-computer interaction researcher, after a career in digital and print journalism.
As part of my research for Sara Anne Hook, a professor of legal informatics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, I’ve been compiling a list of resources for research in legal informatics.
Are you also needing a quick reference for law informatics? I’m just going to leave this right here. Continue reading “22 resources for legal informatics research”
Part of my research this semester focuses on legal issues arising from the re-use of social media assets such as photos, posts and videos. I’m developing guidelines for their re-use by several communities I care about: journalists, social media users and bloggers, as well as artists, publishers, businesses and, of course, lawyers, judges and other officers of our court system. Continue reading “NYT A1 points to debate on re-usage guidelines for Instagram, other social media”
My N512 class, Trends in Informatics, centers around the question: What do you want to be working on for the next 20-30 years? It’s a novel but necessary idea that RIGHT NOW, we have to identify our deep interests to avoid any wasteful false starts on the career for which, in pursuit of this master’s degree, we have committed two years of our lives and thousands of dollars. Let’s get our money’s worth!
But what are MY deep interests? Where’s my research going to focus? What can I sustain the energy and enthusiasm to work on well into the year 2035? How can I start laying the foundations for a productive and satisfying career? Continue reading “Getting started on selecting a master’s degree thesis”
