#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 03 Jan 14"À partir de son parcours de technicien d'exposition au musée Olympique de Lausanne, l'auteur met en lumière l'absence d'une véritable filière professionnelle spécifique pour ce métier atypique du musée, montrant notamment que, dans ce domaine plus que dans tout autre, seule la pratique est à même de nourrir l'expérience et l'acquisition de savoirs."