A liberal arts education has never been more important than it is today as digital modes of communication enable us to connect with one another or to retreat into a fragmented world of reinforced prejudice. In this interactive presentation, Chris Long will use Twitter to demonstrate the meaning of the liberal arts and the capacity of words to create … and destroy … community.
Participants arrived prepared to engage one another through Twitter. Dean Long’s Twitter handle is @cplong and the hashtag for the event is: #MCLA16.
Christopher P. Long is dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University. His extensive publications in Ancient Greek and Contemporary Continental Philosophy include three books: The Ethics of Ontology: Rethinking an Aristotelian Legacy (SUNY 2004), Aristotle On the Nature of Truth (Cambridge 2010), and an enhanced digital book entitled, Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading (Cambridge 2014). The digital platform of the enhanced digital book enables readers to engage directly with the author in an online community.
He is also co-founder of the Public Philosophy Journal (@PubPhilJ), a project that has received over $780,000 of funding from the Mellon Foundation to create an innovative online space of digital scholarship and communication.
To learn more about his administrative approach and his recent research in Philosophy, digital scholarly communication, and the educational use of social media technologies, visit his blog: www.cplong.org. He is the host of the Digital Dialogue podcast (thedigitaldialogue.com) and can be reached on Twitter @cplong and @deancplong.
Below, please find a recording of this event.