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Brown Bag Lecture Series: Our Digital Presence: UMB Archaeology on Social Media and the Web MONDAY NOON

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Brown Bag Lecture Series

Our Digital Presence: UMB Archaeology on Social Media and the Web

 with

John Steinberg, Christa Beranek, and Douglas Bolender

 

Monday, September 21, 2015 at noon  McCormack, first floor, room 503

 

UMBWebpageWe currently have blogs, Facebook pages, and a Twitter account that we use to share our research and engage the public.  Come to this talk for a discussion of how to share your research via these applications, archaeological ethics and social media, and to provide your feedback on social media presentation.

Please join us for the first talk of the year, and feel free to bring your lunch.

Author: John Steinberg

Dr. John Steinberg has been a Research Scientist at the Fiske Center since 2006. He received his PhD in Anthropology from UCLA in 1997. Before coming to UMass Boston, John taught at UCLA and California State University Northridge. He is interested in the economic problems of colonization, both in New England and across the North Atlantic. He uses GIS and shallow geophysics to study settlement patterns to understand broad trends over the landscape. In addition to John's New England work, he has been studying the settlement patterns of Viking Age Iceland. John is the director of the Digital Archaeology Laboratory at the Fiske Center.

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