The following is a detailed panel abstract. Since its inception, digital humanities have upset methodological difference, academic siloism, and institutional hierarchies by offering collaborative approaches to humanistic inquiry via digital tools. From Mark Sample’s declaration: “the digital humanities is really an insurgent humanities,” to the #transformDH movement’s push to alter DH praxis by “highlighting projects […]
When Documenting the Now was building its team, the user experience designer position was created to ensure that the DocNow app would have three principles embedded in the design. The tool must: be intuitive and easy to use be built with our users, not just for them embody our project’s values and ethics While most […]
We entered into this project with the notion of vignette as hybrid genre and much of my effort to classify genre within our corpus has been an attempt to bring to the surface some of these harder to classify genres. In an effort, then, to consider the hybrid nature of the vignette, I’ve been attempting […]
There’s a new volume on digital archaeology coming out via the Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future. Bill Caraher let me have an advance copy of it. Instead of reading it and writing a review, I thought I’d do a distant reading instead, as befits digital […]
It’s been just over a year since I left my job to become an independent scholar/freelance writer/humanist at large/wow this terminology is bad. I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s possible and not possible in this gig. One huge shift was rethinking how I got access to all those library databases that make my research […]
In May 2015, Alex Gil wrote a compelling piece on minimal computing and “producing our own scholarship ourselves.” There, he made the following remark, “I prefer to approach minimal computing around the question ‘What do we need?’” Here, I want to follow Gil’s piece by outlining my own, admittedly unpolished observations on the topic. The emerging […]
[This is an adaptation of the talk I gave for the 2016 Eleanor H. Boheim Lecture at Marquette University, sponsored by the Association of Marquette University Women on September 21, 2016.] In August 2015, Georgetown University President John DeGioia sent an email to the university community announcing the rededication of Mulledy Hall. In that email he pointed […]
Open access publishing has been the subject of a great deal of discussion, and more than its fair share of anxiety in the academy, and in the social sciences in particular. These discussions have raised questions about everything from maintaining the quality of scholarly publications, to recognizing the value of scholars’ labor, to inevitable concerns […]
The following talk/workshop was presented at the Digital Humanities Summer Faculty Workshop at Northwestern University on Tuesday, September 7, 2016. Two years ago, I began thinking about what exactly our common and popular platforms—both social and scholarly—might privilege, and how that privileging shapes our work, stories, new knowledge and culture in general. After a personal […]
Almost exactly three years ago, The Scholarly Kitchen posted a podcast with Peter Brantley about the then relatively new start-up, Hypothes.is. Find out what the organization is up to now, and why they believe in the power of annotation as a form of peer review, in this Peer Review Week interview with Maryann Martone, Director of […]
