#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 04 Dec 13"Orwell was once asked by his editor to address the question "why I write." Orwell, in his typically clear and direct manner, listed a range of reasons, from personal ones such as sheer egotism and aesthetic enthusiasm, to much broader ones of historical impulse and political purpose. In thinking about the inaugural post for this blog I asked myself a related question: "why do I make ethnographic films?" I will follow one of Orwell's leads as to why he writes (and by extension why I make films)-the sense of enjoyment , aesthetic or otherwise, one derives from creating films"