Digital Humanities
36 posts
Risk, Reward, and Digital Writing
Digital culture
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
Introducing Digital Humanities Work to Undergraduates: An Overview
Digital culture
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
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A Pedagogy of Discovery: Reflections on Teaching Tech to Elementary Students
Critical Pedagogy
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
Humanists and Our Books, Pt. 2: Becoming Books
Digital culture
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,
Humanists and Our Books, Pt. 1: The Work of Humanism
Digital culture
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
Hybrid Pedagogy, Digital Humanities, and the Future of Academic Publishing
Digital Humanities
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
The Political Power of Play
Digital Humanities
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.
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Humanizing the Interface
Digital Humanities
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
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Toward an Interactive Criticism: House of Leaves as Haptic Interface
Digital Humanities
“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=
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Bend Until It Breaks: Digital Humanities and Resistance
Copyright
“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
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Queequeg’s Coffin: a Sermon for the Digital Human
Digital Humanities
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
The Digital Humanities is About Breaking Stuff
Digital Humanities
Many have argued that the digital humanities is aboutbuilding stuff [http://stephenramsay.us/text/2011/01/08/whos-in-and-whos-out/]andsharing stuff [http://www.samplereality.com/2011/05/25/the-digital-humanities-is-not-about-building-its-about-sharing/] — that the digital humanities reframes
Building in the Humanities Isn’t New
Digital Humanities
“For children can accomplish the renewal of existence in a hundred unfailing ways.” — Walter Benjamin, “Unpacking My Library [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Illuminations/mV06rdTclagC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=
Decoding Digital Pedagogy, pt. 2: (Un)Mapping the Terrain
Digital Humanities
Digital pedagogy is not a dancing monkey. It won’t do tricks on command. It won’t come obediently when called. Nobody can show us how to do it or make it happen