Tag Archives: power/knowledge
Leah Price, “You Are What You Read”
Price takes down the NEA’s report, “to read or not to read,” which draws correlation between readers and those who are fit, active, happy, kinder, better citizens. However, the report narrows reading to reading for “literary experience,” excluding reading done … Continue reading
Robert Darnton, “Google and the Future of Books”
Darnton somewhat utopianly considers the issue of access to digitized books, especially in light of the 2009ish settlement between Google books and copyright holders in creating a potential monopoly on access. He considers the legacy of the enlightenment, and it’s … 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
Bloomsburg University Undergraduate Manifesto on DH
Undergrad DH Manifesto is an interesting idea and attempt to jump into DH head first, as digital “natives.” I have some issue with the limitations that these undergrads place on themselves/ourselves in contributing–they still very much consider themselves learners and … Continue reading
Digital A-Rae 