David Theo Goldberg, Ph.D., is the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the University of California system-wide research facility for the human sciences and theoretical research in the arts. He also holds faculty appointments as Professor of Comparative Literature and Criminology, Law and Society at UC Irvine, and is a Fellow of the UCI Critical Theory Institute. Professor Goldberg’s work ranges over issues of political theory, race and racism, ethics, law and society, critical theory, cultural studies and, increasingly, digital humanities.
David Theo Goldberg
Articles
July 9, 2015
A Call for Algorithmic Studies
Digital technology and its modes of production, representation, distribution, and circulation remodel the conditions of possibility: the definition of Being, the structuring of the Social, the instrumentalization of the Political, the animation of the Cultural. They re-tool...
Category: EdtechJanuary 12, 2015
Editor's note: The following post is a summary of a provocation delivered at the Umeå University HUMlab's "Genres of Knowledge Production" conference on Dec. 10, 2014. (Watch video, starting at 14:18)1. PlatformsThat...
Category: Digital CitizenshipJanuary 21, 2013
MOOCs, it seems, are driving us to distraction. The objects of so much current investment, fiscal and psychological, if MOOCs (massive open online courses) haven’t reached you yet, they are just a...
Category: Digital LearningMarch 6, 2012
Badges for Learning: Threading the Needle Between Skepticism and Evangelism
There has been much ado the past week or so about whether badges can offer a viable means for assessing learning. It has been boisterous on both sides. Badge evangelists such as...
Category: EdtechAugust 16, 2010
If Technology Is Making Us Stupid, It’s Not Technology’s Fault
There has been growing concern that computers have failed to live up to the promise of improving learning for school kids. The New York Times, The Washington Post, and PBS have all...
Category: Critical PerspectivesOctober 26, 2009
Welcome to the University of California’s New Digital Media and Learning Research Hub and Website
Today, at the forum on Breakthrough Learning in a Digital Age, being hosted by the Sesame Workshop at Google headquarters, we are announcing the launch of a major new research initiative in...
Category: Digital Learning