Howard Rheingold

Bio

author of:

Tools for Thought http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/
The Virtual Community http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/
Smart Mobs http://www.smartmobs.com

Was:

editor of Whole Earth Review http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Review

editor of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog http://www.well.com/user/hlr/mwecintro.html

founding executive editor of Hotwired http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotWired


Has taught:

Participatory Media and Collective Action (UC Berkeley, SIMS, Fall
2005, 2006, 2007 )
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/programs/courses/296a-pmca

Virtual Community/Social Media (Stanford, Fall 2007, 2008, 2009; UC Berkeley,
Spring 2008, 2009) http://socialmediaclassroom.com/host/vircom

Digital Journalism (Stanford University Winter, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 )
http://socialmediaclassroom.com/digitaljournalism09

Current projects:

Social Media Classroom http://socialmediaclassroom.com
The Cooperation Project http://www.cooperationcommons.org
Participatory Media Literacy https://www.socialtext.net/medialiteracy/
HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation grantee http://tinyurl.com/yqjsmr
21st Century Literacies 40 min video http://blip.tv/file/2373937 6 minute vid interview, same subject: http://bit.ly/eFqeI

Abstract

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