Tag Archives: collaboration
Foucault, Surveillance, etc: Planning
I need to go out into the world and do some reading, but for now, for the Daily Create assignment, I’ll lay out a plan for attacking this thing. 1. Gonna do some reading–I have my crazy to-do list calendar. … Continue reading
Rebecca Davis and Jen Rajchel, “Digital Humanities and the Undergrad”
“This is what it must feel like to do real scholarship”; experimentation and collaboration; the professor willing to show how they deal with failure; learning about word choice and etymology, the links between past and present texts, and pulling together … Continue reading
Patricia Cohen, Humanities 2.0 #4: “Scholars Recruit Public for Project”
In this article, the project of focus is the Bentham project at University College London, which has opened transcription of a huge number of documents that would normally only be seen by an academic few to the general public in … Continue reading
Price and Siemens, “Introduction” in Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology
Price and Siemens’ introduction to this online collection explores some of the history and meaning of the digital humanities, and makes the case for the purpose of this collection–the collaborative, open, hierarchy-subversive nature and mission of digital humanities. Authors submit … Continue reading
Matthew Kirschenbaum, “What is digital humanities and what’s it doing in English departments?”
Kirschenbaum explores the history of digital humanities, especially focusing on the term itself and the way that it came about and what it has come to mean. He asserts the connection between the digital humanities and English, based on the … Continue reading
Jennifer Howard, “Devising New Roles for Scholars Who Can Code”
Howard’s Chronicle article talks about one scholar who has been a field builder in the digital humanities. Most important is the emphasis on collaborative, rather than isolated, work and the deconstruction of “typical markers of academic prestige.” Howard, Jennifer, “Devising … Continue reading
Digital A-Rae 