User:DouglasPardoeWilson

Personal Introduction and Plans

I go by the name Doug Wilson, and for many years posted on mailing lists and on the web under the name Douglas P. Wilson, but even that name is not sufficiently specific. However I believe that I am the only Douglas Pardoe Wilson in the world, so I am using my full name now.

I have a Master's degree in Linguistics and System Theory from Simon Fraser University, where as as teaching assistant I usually helped with a course on the social implications of computing. This topic is quite related to the one I now work in almost exclusively, Social Technology. I have had mailing lists and/or web pages on social technology for well over a decade, and believe I was the first person to use the term on the Internet. Please dispute this claim!

I plan a course on Social Technology: past, present and future, which will include a discussion of WikiMedia as well as the better known Facebook as current social technologies.