Recent & Upcoming Talks | Clifford B. Anderson

The Ends of Technology (in Church)

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000

Slow Minds in Fast Times: Haruki Murakami's Fiction as Metacognitive Resistance to AI

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Generating Stub Articles about Women in Religion: An Experiment in Retrieval Augmented Generation and Fine-Tuning LLMs

Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Using AI to Support Editors of Underrepresented Topics on Wikipedia

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Challenges of Synthetic Media

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Gender Bias in Word Embeddings: A Theological Perspective

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Beyond 'deepfakes': Stewarding Authenticity in Digital Cultural Heritage

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

AI Ethics, Thought Experiments, and Information Science

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

WikiProject Report: Women in Religion

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Women in Religion, the Gender Gap, and Content Gaps in Wikipedia

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Neocalvinismus am Princeton Theological Seminary (USA) im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert

Sat, 02 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Building or Buying? AI for the Scholarly Ecosystem

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

WikiProject Women in Religion Panel: Discussion and Report

Sat, 11 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Libraries + Wikimedia: Past, Present, and Future

Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Project VandyCite: Using Wikidata to Support Research Information Management

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 12:22:00 +0000

Project VandyCite began during spring 2020 as librarians and staff members at the Vanderbilt University Library transitioned to offsite work due to COVID-19. The goal of the project was to enlist librarians and staff to add bibliographic information about faculty members at Vanderbilt University to Wikidata. In the space of a few months, members of the project who had never previously used Wikidata became effective and productive editors, with some participants reaching more than 10,000 edits. In this talk, we discuss how we prepared the groundwork for this project by developing a bot (VanderBot) to create items for faculty members, how we helped our colleagues to become effective editors, and our plans for scaling this initiative to other libraries.

Teaching BJC with NetsBlox: A Case Study from Vanderbilt University

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 19:00:00 +0000

In this short talk, we present a case study of how faculty at Vanderbilt University adapted The Beauty and Joy of Computing curriculum into an introductory computing course for non-majors and potential majors at the School of Engineering. We share how the spirit and principles of the BJC [1] guided the development of the course even as we diverged significantly from aspects of the curriculum.

Among the primary differences were the use of NetsBlox rather than Snap! as the computing environment [2]. Given the support in NetsBlox for remote procedure calls as well as distributed programming, we discuss changes to classroom exercises and summative student projects. We also share why we shifted textbooks from the venerable Blown to Bits! [3] to more recent works by Claire Evans [4] and Martin Erwig [5].

We conclude by sharing our own experiences teaching the course as digital humanist and educational technologist rather than as computer scientists and by expressing recommendations about teaching courses in computational thinking to undergraduate students of the humanities and social sciences.

References

[1] P. Goldenberg, J. Mark, B. Harvey, A. Cuoco, and M. Fries, “Design Principles behind Beauty and Joy of Computing,” in Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Portland, OR, USA, Feb. 2020, pp. 220–226, doi: 10.1145/3328778.3366794.

[2] B. Broll et al., “A Visual Programming Environment for Learning Distributed Programming,” in Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Seattle, Washington, USA, Mar. 2017, pp. 81–86, doi: 10.1145/3017680.3017741.

[3] H. Abelson, K. Ledeen, and H. Lewis, Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008.

[4] C. L. Evans, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. New York, New York: Portfolio, 2018.

Best Practices for Archiving Digital Productions

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction to TEI Publisher

Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Anchors and Abstracts: Sustaining Television News Archives

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Experiments in Digital Privacy Education

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The Challenge of Big Data to the Phenomenology of Memory

Mon, 18 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

On Thinking Theologically in Emergencies

Mon, 11 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Geographical Indication and Religious Authenticity

Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Strolling Through the Digital Humanities

Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000