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Metamedia Lab, Stanford Archaeology Center - exploring media in their archaeological materiality.

We are active in exploring social software and digital technologies of all kinds in learning and teaching. All classes offer a major research component.

Winter Quarter 2008

Visualizing Archaeological Knowledge in the Information Age - a class with Timothy Webmoor on new media for visualizing archaeological information

Spring Quarter 2007

Digital Humanities - a class with Michael Shanks on the 'digital turn' in the humanities
Archaeology and Photography - a class with Michael Shanks emphasizing the discipline's specialty as practice not technique

Winter Quarter 2007

Ten things - a class with Michael Shanks about design
Digital Journalism with Howard Rheingold
Forecasting the Future of Engineering with Paul Saffo
The Archaeology of Contemporary Issues with Bill Rathje and Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal

Fall Quarter 2006

Eight great archaeological sites with Michael Shanks.
Human and Machine with Henry Lowood and Michael Shanks
Digital Journalism with Howard Rheingold

Spring Quarter 2006

Digital Humanities with Michael Shanks.
A comparative history of antiquarian traditions between EAST And WEST with Alain Schnapp

Winter Quarter 2006

Eight great archaeological sites with Michael Shanks. Latest iteration of a class that has run for several years in the Freshman and Sophomore Seminar Program, now accredited as part of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Digital Journalism with Howard Rheingold
The Archaeology of Contemporary Issues with Bill Rathje and Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal
In Search of the Goddess with Tristan Carter

Fall Quarter 2005

Stanford Archaeological Theory - a reading group with Michael Shanks
Human and Machine with Henry Lowood, Michael Shanks and Jeffrey Schnapp
Archaeologies of the Greek Past with Christopher Witmore

Past

Performance, place and the past with Michael Shanks
Ancient urbanism with Michael Shanks
Science, technology, and culture - the design of ten artifacts with Michael Shanks
Creative Computing in the Humanities with Joe Adler and Michael Shanks
Artifacts - an introduction to material culture studies with Barry Katz and Michael Shanks

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