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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
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
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.
Rebecca Davis

Inclusion and DH - THATCamp CHNM 2011 - Google Docs - 0 views

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    Inclusion and digital humanities--how do we expand this community
Rebecca Davis

McKinsey & Company - Report - Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, ... - 0 views

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    Report from McKinsey Global Institute on future of big data with some discussion of methods
Rebecca Davis

techMETRO: NYPL Labs presents: Digital Humanities and the Future of Libraries - 0 views

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    upcoming event at New York Public Library
Rebecca Davis

THATCamp LAC: Digital Humanities goes unconferenced | The power of persuasion - 1 views

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    blog post by Ryan Hoover
Rebecca Davis

A Scientist Walks into a THATCamp… | Heather M. Whitney - 0 views

  • The ethos of THATCamp fits this need in some way. Put together a bunch of like-minded people who meet up at a low-stakes (and low-cost) situation and ask them to come up with their best ideas. Crowdsource those ideas and let the group weigh in on where, when, and how to discuss them. It’s chaotic, but it can work wonders.
  • How do I start to build a body of information, practical tips, how to’s, etc.,  that can be passed on from a student that is with me now to the one that will work with me next summer? How do we, at our very small school, start to be good stewards of an upcoming big equipment install, when at larger ones the associated maintenance tasks would be taken on by full-time staff? 
  • Who else out there feels a bit isolated and would like to cultivate a community of like-minded physicists at small schools, so that we can work together on potential grant proposals? How do we actually collaborate on these proposals?
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  • They are part of the work of being a faculty member at an student-focused undergraduate institution in which research is an expectation.
  • including a carefully articulated identity so that attendees comes with a shared, distinct purpose.
Rebecca Davis

THATCamp 2011 Roundup - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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    Profhacker round up of THATCamp blog posts includes several for THATCampLAC.  And you can read about what was going on at THATCamp CHNM, too.
Rebecca Davis

Blog U.: Conferences and Unconferences - Library Babel Fish - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    Barbara Fister's blog post on conferences includes THATCampLAC, the "pinnacle of awesomeness"
Rebecca Davis

Hacking the Academy - 0 views

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    table of contents for forthcoming volume from CHNM, Hacking the Academy with sections on hacking, scholarship teaching, institutions
Brett Boessen

Xefer Wikipedia Radial Graph - 0 views

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    This site mines Wikipedia to return which first links on each page deliver you to the "philosophy" wikipedia entry.
Rebecca Davis

News: Making Ethnic Studies Compute - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    using mapping to develop spatial sense for students connected to ethnic studies
Rebecca Davis

Digital Humanities Registry - 1 views

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    Google Spreadsheet of Digital Humanities Registry
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    I'm not on it and can't add to it . . .
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