Tag Archives: text
Some thoughts on e- versus physical books
Reading a physical book means I highlight differently. Reading a physical book means I can’t just drag my finger over a moment that fascinates me. Instead, I have to unsettle myself, find my pen, underline, attempt to annotate legibly, and … Continue reading
Sherry Turkle, “How Computers Change the Way We Think”
This article suffers from many of the classic flaws in discriminatory and invalidating thinking about computers/the computing generation that I’ve explored in other annotations, but I think some of them are successfully answered by Gardner & Davis and others. Turkle … Continue reading
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
Matthew Kirschenbaum, “How has technology changed writing and literature?”
On some awful video software, Kirschenbaum traces the history of the introduction of computers into writers’ practices of composing and editing mostly works of what would be considered “literature”–fiction, screenplays, etc. Word processing software met with some resistance, was considered … 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
Digital A-Rae 