Start Calling it Digital Liberal Arts | The Transducer - 0 views
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No longer an innocent place for the playful encounter between technology and interpretation, DH is now being interrogated for evidence of participation in an exclusivist technoscientific imaginary, and there are many willing to save the field by theorizing what has remained for too long undertheorized
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This is in contrast to the digital humanities, and indeed digital scholarship as a whole, which has its heart in the edition and the archive
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Not so much a replacement as a supplement to digital humanities, DLA broadens the scope and relocates the center of gravity of what I have referred to as the digital humanities situation, the recurring, playful encounter of humanists with technology. Instead of focusing on what may better be described as the computational humanities (a useful term recently proposed by Lev Manovich), the digital liberal arts seeks to locate digital media squarely within the frame of the liberal arts, broadly conceived as a curriculum, not a discipline or even set of disciplines, and as a distinctive mode of educational experience, not a set of received theoretical concerns. It is a framing particularly suited to liberal arts colleges — America’s great contribution to higher learning — but also to universities, such as UVa, whose souls are in the liberal arts as well.
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the idea of Coursera-style MOOCs being part of the DLA is a non-starter, although distributed and mediated forms of education can, and I think must, become part of the liberal arts experience
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focusing on the real use of digital collections (for example) as much as on their creation and publication