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Hist 697: It’s how you say it.
[This post is for week 1 of History and New Media]
2011
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Thoughts on Scholarship
There was an advice article in the Chronicle by Lynn Worsham recently that caught my attention. Worsham observes that an increasing number of articles and manuscripts submitted for publication in the journal where she works and other presses that she reviews for are, what she calls, “Fast Food scholarship.” Fast food scholarship aims to fulfill the publishing requirement but is not carefully researched, not well developed, and not in conversation with other recent scholarship.
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Hist 696: what difference does history make for new media?
Yes – that is intentionally inverted.
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Hist 696: Project
Here is the link to the omeka version of my project. Some day it will be a self-contained and very cool deep map.
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Hist 696: Copyright, Open Access and me
I am a strong supporter of the idea that ideas and knowledge cannot be owned and that both are most productive when opened up to others.
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Hist 696: Engaging the crowd
This weeks readings were largely straightforward, but interesting in the variety of strong opinions on that this topic often generates. From Wikipedia to Mechanical Turk to Flickr Commons, the major sites of crowd engagement and activity are covered in our readings, though the crowd-sourced elements of our own Papers of the War Department and transcription tool Scripto were conspicuously missing.
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Hist 696: Visual arguments and non-linear logic.
The readings for this week are very interesting to me, as spatial history and visualizations are two of the areas of scholarship that I am particularly excited about. Many of the reading focused on how visualization and spatial representations map onto humanities scholarship, and whether these are aids to textual arguments or stand on their own as self-contained arguments. I fear that, as long as this remains a question of debate, digital humanities scholars who engage in this sort of work will struggle to achieve academic “recognition” for their work.
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Hist 696: Digging into Data
Megan and I are leading discussion this week, so we thought we would blog early to help start conversation about this week’s readings. I have decided to take a survey approach for this week, offering a brief description of what I saw as the major points of the articles and offering some questions for discussion. The topic for this week’s adventures in digital humanities is Data Mining and Distant Reading, two ways of engaging with primary source material that represent both a continuation and a change from the methods of “traditional” scholarship.
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Hist 696: “Digital Scholarship”
This weeks readings focused on the creation and evaluation of digital scholarship. Both the type of work being created and the ways that work is evaluated differ from what has become the standards for academic production and for tenure and promotion.
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Hist 696: Reflections and Final Draft
- What is your inquiry question? What do you want your users to learn?