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Digital Humanities

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Decentering Digital Discomfort

Digital Humanities

Decentering Digital Discomfort

Establishing digital discomfort along with the possibility of no resolution as framing principles of a DH project can promote research consciousness.

Notes Toward a Values-Driven Framework for Digital Humanities Pedagogy

Digital Humanities

Notes Toward a Values-Driven Framework for Digital Humanities Pedagogy

There was a definite buzz in the room on an otherwise ordinary Friday morning. Faculty, administrators, librarians, and educational technologists had gathered to hear future plans for our university’s classrooms. A communication professor described an assignment in which students reflected on their semester working through issues of race and

Whither the Digital Humanities?

Digital Humanities

Whither the Digital Humanities?

The Digital Humanities (DH) can be viewed in two ways: as emerging and as emergent. * Emerging: Over the last two decades, as it grew from humanities computing into digital humanities [http://www.neh.gov/humanities/2013/julyaugust/feature/the-rise-the-machines] , it spawned a range of analytics [http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/ben-merriman-moretti-jockers-digital-humanities]

Critical Pedagogy

Open Letters

In the interests of transparency, the following is a letter sent by e-mail to the editorial staff of Hybrid Pedagogy. We’re sharing this, and another letter below, with our community. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Canvas and the Mission of Hybrid Pedagogy Dear Amazing Editorial Team, Academic conversations can escalate quickly, especially

Interactive Criticism and the Embodied Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities

Interactive Criticism and the Embodied Digital Humanities

“The tenacity of / writing’s thickness, like the body’s / flesh, is / ineradicable, yet mortal” (87). ~ Charles Bernstein, “Artifice of Absorption” Critical analysis is visceral. When I write it, the tips of my fingers tingle. When I speak it in a classroom, the hair on the back of my neck

Situating Makerspaces in Schools

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Situating Makerspaces in Schools

America’s obsession with STEM is dangerous [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-stem-wont-make-us-successful/2015/03/26/5f4604f2-d2a5-11e4-ab77-9646eea6a4c7_story.html] , Fareed Zakaria warns us, and our hunch is that most readers of Hybrid Pedagogy would tend to agree. We, Colin and Josh, certainly do. But the conversation that typically follows that

Can You Murder a Novel? Part 4: Realism and Closure in the Mystery Novel

Can You Murder a Novel? Part 4: Realism and Closure in the Mystery Novel

After including the Generative Literature Project in my Experimental Writing course during the Fall 2014 semester, three senior undergraduates remained mesmerized by the perceived novelty of a generative, digital novel. For the following semester all four of us shared our frustrations, questions, and perplexities, which later drove our inquiry into

Can You Murder a Novel, Part 3

Can You Murder a Novel, Part 3

After including the GenLit Project [http://www.genlitproject.org/] in my Experimental Writing course during the Fall 2014 semester, three senior undergraduates remained mesmerized by the perceived novelty of a generative, digital novel. For the following semester all four of us shared our frustrations, questions, and perplexities, which later drove

Can You Murder a Novel? Part 2

Can You Murder a Novel? Part 2

After including the GenLit Project [http://www.genlitproject.org/] in my Experimental Writing course during the Fall 2014 semester, three senior undergraduates remained mesmerized by the perceived novelty of a generative, digital novel. For the following semester all four of us shared our frustrations, questions, and perplexities, which later drove

The Course Hath No Bottom: the 20,000-Person Seminar

The Course Hath No Bottom: the 20,000-Person Seminar

A few years ago, Sean Michael Morris and I wrote, “Meaningful relationships are as important in a class of three as they are in a class of 10,000.” In the rest of that article [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/pedagogies-of-scale/], we wonder at questions of scale: how to scale

A Letter to the Humanities: DH Will Not Save You

Digital Humanities

A Letter to the Humanities: DH Will Not Save You

Adeline Koh will be teaching theIdentity [https://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/institute-2015/session/identity/]track for Digital Pedagogy Lab in August 2015. To find out more about her track and to enroll, visitDigital Pedagogy Lab’s main page [https://www.digitalpedagogylab.com]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am often asked about the digital humanities

Ecstatic Necessariness: Turmoil as Process in Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities

Ecstatic Necessariness: Turmoil as Process in Digital Humanities

For the last three years while I’ve worked with Hybrid Pedagogy, I have been flip about Digital Humanities as a field, a practice, or a pursuit. I have largely dismissed the work of digital humanists as arcane, irrelevant, boxy and tiresome, or as posturing by hungry, over-educated academics needing

Spect-ops at Harvard: How a World-leading University Reacts to Techno-centrism

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Spect-ops at Harvard: How a World-leading University Reacts to Techno-centrism

“Screens so hi-def you might as well be there, cost effective videophonic conferencing, internal Froxx CD-ROM, electronic couture, all-in-one consoles (…) Half of all metro Bostonians now work from home via some digital link. 50% of all public education disseminated through accredited encoded pulses, absorbable at home on couches (…) saying this

The World as Classroom: Calling All Scholars

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The World as Classroom: Calling All Scholars

Like many people across the world this spring, I sat and watched Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey [http://www.cosmosontv.com/]. As a non-scientist, I was not only awestruck by what I learned, I was heartened by this program’s appearance on network television. Beginning with Carl Sagan thirty years ago,

Risk, Reward, and Digital Writing

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Risk, Reward, and Digital Writing

Autocorrect is tyranny. It is interruption of thought, of speech, of creation, a condition for — and sometimes a prohibition against — my voice being heard. When I type “phone-less” and autocorrect changes it to “phenols”, when my sister-in-law’s name, Asya, is regularly corrected to “As yet”, even the simplest communication

Introducing Digital Humanities Work to Undergraduates: An Overview

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Introducing Digital Humanities Work to Undergraduates: An Overview

You are already a digital humanist, whether or not you know it. Digital humanities has exploded in popularity over the last decade, as evidenced by the creation of many different types of grants to help digital humanities research ( The Office of Digital Humanities at the National Endowment of the Humanities

A Pedagogy of Discovery: Reflections on Teaching Tech to Elementary Students

Critical Pedagogy

A Pedagogy of Discovery: Reflections on Teaching Tech to Elementary Students

When I discovered a rather nondescript blurb on Craigslist about needing an immediate replacement for a “technology specialist,” I didn’t know exactly what I’d find. Much to my joy, however, I soon found myself working once a week at a private elementary school, tasked with various tech-related responsibilities,

Humanists and Our Books, Pt. 2: Becoming Books

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Humanists and Our Books, Pt. 2: Becoming Books

On Tuesday, June 3, Hybrid Pedagogy released an announcement and CFP [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/page-two/cfp-generative-literature-project/] related to the first long-form project to be undertaken by Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing. Two weeks later, we launched a crowdfunding campaign [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-interactive-music-theory-textbook] on Indiegogo to underwrite the creation

Humanists and Our Books, Pt. 1: The Work of Humanism

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Humanists and Our Books, Pt. 1: The Work of Humanism

On Tuesday, June 3, Hybrid Pedagogy released an announcement and CFP [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/page-two/cfp-generative-literature-project/] related to the first long-form project to be undertaken by Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing. In the coming weeks, look for another announcement regarding a second project we have in the works. Kris Shaffer and

Hybrid Pedagogy, Digital Humanities, and the Future of Academic Publishing

Digital Humanities

Hybrid Pedagogy, Digital Humanities, and the Future of Academic Publishing

It is not enough to write monographs. It is not enough to publish. Today, scholars must understand what happens when our research is distributed, and we must write, not for rarified audiences, but for unexpected ones. New-form scholarly publishing requires new-form scholarly (digital) writing. Digital academic publishing may on the

Children hard at work playing in the sand. Some play hopscotch, some draw things, some observe. Are these political acts?

Digital Humanities

The Political Power of Play

Listen to this chapter here, or subscribe to the entire serialized audiobook [https://anchor.fm/hybrid-teaching].This peer-reviewed article was simultaneously prepared as a keynote address for Re:Humanities 2014 [http://blogs.haverford.edu/rehumanities/schedule/], a peer-reviewed undergraduate digital humanities conference held by the TriCollege Digital Humanities Initiative (Haverford,

Humanizing the Interface

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Humanizing the Interface

Oppression is inherently spatial. Governments use biopolitical mechanisms such as urban zoning and prisons to keep undesirable populations fixed in place; institutions use office location to distinguish permanent from contingent faculty; houses of worship physically separate believers from infidels. These structures all classify exclusion as a topography dividing “us” from

Toward an Interactive Criticism: House of Leaves as Haptic Interface

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Toward an Interactive Criticism: House of Leaves as Haptic Interface

“And now,’ cried Max, ‘let the wild rumpus start!” ~ Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are When I first read Mark Z. Danielewski’s House [https://www.amazon.com/House-Leaves-Mark-Z-Danielewski/dp/0375703764/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=posthuman-20&linkCode=w01&creativeASIN=0375703764] of Leaves, I barely got through 50

Bend Until It Breaks: Digital Humanities and Resistance

Bend Until It Breaks: Digital Humanities and Resistance

“The problem is to begin with a conception of power relations that grants that resistance is always possible but not always successful.”~ David Sholle, “Resistance: Pinning Down a Wandering Concept in Cultural Studies Discourse” Why resist? [http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/4845676054_e1c97d2b28_b.jpg] Image courtesy

Queequeg’s Coffin: a Sermon for the Digital Human

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Queequeg’s Coffin: a Sermon for the Digital Human

How I long for a time when text ended at the page. When it didn’t follow. Me. Through the streets and the hallways and under the blankets of my bed.~ Anonymous The digital has breached the screen. Text fails to tell whole stories. We can no longer accept the