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Brett Boessen

You Are What You Click - Sven Birkerts - The American Interest Magazine - 0 views

  • Every bit as chilling as Shirky’s argument is the blitheness with which he accepts—no, rejoices in—the withering away of a whole culture, centuries in the making.
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      Wow.  That's pretty revealing.
Rebecca Davis

Tools for Exploring Text: Natural Language Processing « Text Mining and the D... - 2 views

  • hopefully I’ve managed to advance the case for considering sophisticated language processing like this part of the natural toolkit of the digital humanities.
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      How about all the humanities, not just the digital humanities?
Rebecca Davis

Blog:What comes after Digital? - 1 views

  • As Douglas Adams once memorably said, 'lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food'. The message is the thing, not the medium through which it is conveyed
  • It is a portmanteau term covering a range of activities, technologies, business models and skills which focus on transcoding information into binary and transmitting it through wires and circuits.
  • There are two things which prevent me from suggesting we're heading into a 'Social Age', though. The first, most obvious, is that we have alway been in a social age.
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  • social graph represents the normalisation of technology into existing patterns of behaviour. It is not so much a radical departure as a reappropriation of technology for a very basic human purpose. 
  • social' experience online is a peculiarly stylised one
  • So if 'social' is an expansion of 'Digital', and if both are in the process of assimilation into mainstream culture, then where might we be going next? The answer, I suspect might come not from technology but from the far greater context of global economic and social change. 
  • it is the world, and not the screen that matters. 
  • The challenges facing the next two generations are significant. Restore faith in the integrity of the state, adjust expectations of personal wealth and progressive growth, sustain the momentum of tolerance and integration, adjust to a career based on flux and uncertainty, find innovative, practical solutions to environmental change and the scarcity of resources. That's on top of the usual concerns of health, education, security and welfare. And somewhere in this mix they will need to begin to find answers to profoundly important questions of transparency, equality and social justice. 
  • It will be the connectedness of things and people, and they ways in which technology allows us to create and manipulate those connections that counts
  • Connected Age - in which people are connected socially, digitally, personally and politically in a kind of augmented communitarianism
  • Connection is what we do - showing people the global implication of their personal context, demonstrating that cultures across the world share more in common than in conflict, empowering literacy in the fullest sense - linguistic, informational and cultural - to equip this future generation with the tools both intelligently to navigate the abundance of information and to use it to achieve social justice.  
  • The idea of museums provides a Connected society with depth, validity and context - it makes their advance incremental rather than cyclical.
  • The library is a place in which people become connected and which, critically, can help overcome the increasing risk of disenfranchisement and illiteracy. The archive provides a fund of prior knowledge upon which to build future ideas.
  • challenges of relevance
Brett Boessen

Does Wikipedia Have an Accuracy Problem? - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    Interesting discussion on academic consensus, speed of change on the web, and wikipedia, responding somewhat to a piece in the Chronicle.
Rebecca Davis

Ian Bogost - This is a Blog Post about the Digital Humanities - 3 views

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    Ian Bogost's response to Stanley Fish
Rebecca Davis

» Response to Stanley Fish Planned Obsolescence - 1 views

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    Kathleen Fitzpatrick's response to Stanley Fish
Brett Boessen

The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • we need to think less about completed products and more about text in process; less about individual authorship and more about collaboration; less about originality and more about remix; less about ownership and more about sharing.
  • The digital humanities
  • can help
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  • open up the conversation to the public whose support the traditional humanities has lost. If anyone and everyone can join in, if the invitation of open access is widely accepted, appreciation of what humanists do will grow beyond the confines of the university
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    Stanley Fish engages Kathleen Fitzpatrick and digital humanities.
Brett Boessen

The 10 key skills for the future of work - Online Collaboration - 1 views

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    So, you get a liberal education, heavily influenced by computational and new media literacy/competency? Works for me.
Brett Boessen

stevenberlinjohnson.com: Anatomy Of An Idea - 1 views

  • All these new tools are incredible for making rapid-fire discoveries and associations, but you need a broad background of knowledge to prime you for those discoveries
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      Sounds like a nod to liberal education to me.
  • It's the social life of information, in John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid's wonderful phrase -- we just have so many more ways of being social now
  • people who think the Web is killing off serendipity are not using it correctly
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  • this simple, but amazing fact: almost none of this--Twitter, blogs, PDFs, eBooks, Google, Findings--would have been intelligible to a writer fifteen years ago
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    Lovely mapping of the social development of an idea.   One of his takeaways, point 3, is essentially that one ought to be as liberally educated as possible (though he doesn't use that phrase).
Brett Boessen

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    I'd say the evidence provided for Huxley is less clearly damning than that provided for Orwell, but it's still a good clear text that could spark some solid discussions with students.
Brett Boessen

Bull beware: Truth goggles sniff out suspicious sentences in news » Nieman Jo... - 0 views

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    Will this tool help critical thinking or make it easier to turn it off?
Brett Boessen

How to Use Google Search More Effectively [INFOGRAPHIC] - 1 views

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    A decent summary of the different Google operators.
Brett Boessen

The Technium: Supercut Genre - 0 views

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    "They will act as keen proofreaders and critics. At the same time a few super cutters will employ existing footage to create entirely new feature-length works. A few classic experimental films have already been cut from found footage, but we can expect more of these, and better ones."
Brett Boessen

Ian Bogost - Beyond the Elbow-Patched Playground - 1 views

  • Digital humanists eschew the label "computational" because it draws an uneasy connection to computer science, whereas scientists embrace it because, hey, who doesn't use computation?
  • the digital humanities more frequently adopt rather than invent their tools
  • Let's imagine the best scenario. If the humanities are an agency of espionage, then the digital humanities would be its Q Division, the R&D arm that invents and deploys new methods in support of its mission. But we're not there. We're not close. How come?
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  • This is a bittersweet pill. On the one hand, it's encouraging that the digital humanities look to the outside for inspiration and influence—it's one example of a re-orientation of humanistic practice toward the world and its interests. But on the other hand, the rationale for that orientation is somewhat perverted; it is motivated primarily by an inward-looking reformational interest. This is why so much of the talk in digital humanities is about digital humanities. This is institution-building, not world-building.
  • worst case
  • techno-liberalism
  • the digital humanities becomes an organizational-political lever to advance arguments for the reformation of the humanities, but whose means of reformation is primarily self-reflexive, and whose manner of executing on that self-reflexive reformation relies largely on imported materials and methods to bulk up the ramparts that would protect humanism from the world it might otherwise enter
  • But the lower faculties must resist the temptation to partake of daily life only just enough to mine convenient resources into makeshift parapets
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