#alt-ac: alternate academic careers for humanities scholars
Tags: #alt-ac, collaboration, digital-humanities
[Update and disclaimer, 2013: This post was the seed of #Alt-Academy, an edited collection and grassroots publishing platform at MediaCommons. In its initial iteration, in the summer of 2011, the project featured two dozen contributions by 33 fantastic authors. New editors have joined #Alt-Academy and fresh content is forthcoming. Because people continue to link to this post as shorthand for the emergence and naming of the #altac "movement" (so called--not by me!), I want to preface it with a link to something else I've written, in an attempt to explain the term: "Two and a Half Cheers for the Lunaticks." If you are writing one of the many articles critiquing current uses of the term, I hope that you will pause to read that contextualizing pos
Véronique Ginouvès on 18 Feb 14"Plusieurs blogueurs et journalistes s'accordent sur un même constat : les scientifiques français accusent un certain retard en matière de communication numérique. Notamment, la plupart désertent Twitter, média social plébiscité par de nombreux scientifiques aux Etats-Unis, et qui permet une véritable ouverture sur l'extérieur. Pour « sortir du labo », rencontrer des collaborateurs partageant les mêmes centres d'intérêts, et accroître la visibilité des recherches en ligne."