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Do 'the Risky Thing' in Digital Humanities - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 1 views

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  • "Make sure that someone's got your back, but do the risky thing."
  • Sidonie Smith, is leading an investigation of future forms of the dissertation, and whose Committee on Information Technology is working on issues surrounding the review of digital scholarship for tenure and promotion.
  • Real innovation requires risk
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  • Getting her work out of the pile is helped enormously by having done something more than what was expected
  • You must support her in doing the risky thing. Insist that she defend her experimental work, and then, in turn, defend her choice to anyone who doesn't understand her deviation from the road ordinarily traveled.
  • Scholars doing digital work require kinds of support that many more traditionally oriented humanists do not: access to technical resources for both their teaching and scholarship, as well as help maintaining those resources.
  • we run the risk of breaking the innovative spirit that we've hoped to bring to our departments
  • And where that spirit isn't broken, untenured digital scholars run the risk of burnout from having to produce twice as much—traditional scholarship and digital projects—as their counterparts do
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  • Chris Long on 16 Dec 11
     
    An open journal in the humanities. Perhaps this is a venue in which we might consider submitting material in the spirit of Stuart Selber's questions about publication.
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