Tag Archives: digital English
Social Media & The Digital Confessional: Outlining a long post
Tentative Thesis: The internet, especially social media, can be read as Foucault’s confessional-turned-panopticon, in which people expose and put into language (text, pictures, videos, music) their experiences and stories, the process of which makes them subject those experiences to social discourse, … Continue reading
Ki Mae Heussner, “Digital Confessionals: Tweeting Away Your Vices”
This article explores the use of social media as a way to motivate/shame yourself into meeting a goal, like losing weight, monitoring your spending, or quitting smoking. The author looks at one man who lost weight by tweeting his caloric intake, … Continue reading
Electronic Scholarly Editions: Using Electronic Maps to Explore Willa Cather’s Life and Works
Looking around a few different electronic scholarly editions of authors’ works this week, I came across the Geographic Chronology project, which maps American author Willa Cather’s life and travels, in order to think about how they relate to her writing. … 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
Digital A-Rae 