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Weiye Loh

Victorian Literature, Statistically Analyzed With New Process - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Literature Statistics Content Analysis

shared by Weiye Loh on 04 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • The titles of every British book published in English in and around the 19th century — 1,681,161, to be exact — are being electronically scoured for key words and phrases that might offer fresh insight into the minds of the Victorians.
  • This research, which has only recently become possible, thanks to a new generation of powerful digital tools and databases, represents one of the many ways that technology is transforming the study of literature, philosophy and other humanistic fields that haven’t necessarily embraced large-scale quantitative analysis.
  • There is also anxiety, however, about the potential of electronic tools to reduce literature and history to a series of numbers, squeezing out important subjects that cannot be easily quantified.
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  • Some scholars are wary of the control an enterprise like Google can exert over digital information. Google’s plan to create a voluminous online library and store has raised alarms about a potential monopoly over digital books and the hefty pricing that might follow. But Jon Orwant, the engineering manager for Google Books, Magazines and Patents, said the plan was to make collections and searching tools available to libraries and scholars free. “That’s something we absolutely will do, and no, it’s not going to cost anything,” he said.
  • Mr. Houghton sought to capture what he called a “general sense” of how middle- and upper-class Victorians thought, partly by closely reading scores of texts written during the era and methodically counting how many times certain words appeared. The increasing use of “hope,” “light” and “sunlight,” for instance, was interpreted as a sign of the Victorians’ increasing optimism.
Gideon Burton

HASTAC | Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory - 0 views

www.hastac.org

digital humanities online learning portal new media

shared by Gideon Burton on 22 May 10 - Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 22 May 10
     
    HASTAC ("haystack") is a very important initiative in the digital humanities, including blogs, contests, projects, and people who are engaged in the cutting edge of moving literature and learning into the digital age.
jardinejn

Radio's America: The Great Depression and the Rise of Modern Mass Culture by Bruce Lent... - 0 views

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The Great Depression Communication technology

shared by jardinejn on 21 May 10 - Cached
  • jardinejn on 21 May 10
     
    This shows how people viewed relatively unfamiliar mediums of communication back in the Depression and I think makes some relevant points on how the relationship of the masses with the new media can either forcast or reflect cultural values of the time.
  • jardinejn on 21 May 10
     
    This shows how people viewed relatively unfamiliar mediums of communication back in the Depression and I think makes some relevant points on how the relationship of the masses with the new media can either forcast or reflect cultural values of the time.
Amanda Giles

Executive Summary | Pew Internet & American Life Project - 0 views

www.pewinternet.org/...lation-and-New-Technology.aspx

identity reality

shared by Amanda Giles on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • Only 6% of the adult population has no one with whom they can discuss important matters or who they consider to be “especially significant” in their life.
  • contrary to the considerable concern that people’s use of the internet and cell phones could be tied to the trend towards smaller networks, we find that ownership of a mobile phone and participation in a variety of internet activities are associated with larger and more diverse core discussion networks. (Discussion networks are a key measure of people’s most important social ties.)
  • Amanda Giles on 24 May 10
     
    Social networking decreases social isolation.
Sarah Eeee

Dissent Magazine - Arguing The World - Are English Departments Killing the Humanities? - - 0 views

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shared by Sarah Eeee on 10 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • The focus of this post is not the thousand-and-one times told tale of how the corporatization of the university and state divestment from higher education has had a particularly disastrous impact upon humanities departments
  • We can treat these realities as facts to be taken for granted.
  • We might wonder if there are conditions of intellectual deprivation for which the institutional structures governing the humanities are partly to blame.
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  • For Arnoldians, literature would play the cultural role once occupied by religion, with beauty civilizing the modern individual.
  • The avatar of that attitude was Harvard’s Douglas Bush, who speaking in 1944 identified the cultural tradition running from the ancient Greeks through Milton as “that heritage for which the war has been fought.”
  • To put it another way, the English department currently labors under a deep paradox: it devotes much of its intellectual energy to declaring the limits of Anglo-American culture while being structurally wedded to that culture in a way that necessarily privileges it.
  • At the risk of being impolite, I will be pointed about their implications: this is not a progressive program of higher education, but is in fact a perniciously anti-progressive one. It confirms the casual undergraduate presupposition that nothing occurring before 1980 is of real significance, that the free market is the culmination of the human desire for liberty, and that digital fora for blather are now fundamental to meditations on our role in the universe.
  • In its youth it promised an education in literature without the hard work of learning languages, much to the dismay of classicists. In its middle age it offered a stripped-down version of philosophy under the banner of critical theory, an intrusion that philosophers bore with Stoic calm. Now in its senescence, the English department is being beaten by communications at its own game of watering down curriculum and reducing humanist traditions to what today’s adolescent will find—to use the favorite malapropism of the text-messaging generation—“relatable.”
  • In an age more forthright in its bigotries, Irving Babbitt advocated a New Humanism that readily embraced a meritocracy of learning. The humanitarian, in Babbitt’s phrase, “has sympathy for mankind in the lump,” where a humanist “is interested in the perfecting of the individual.” The return to the classics, or to great texts traditionally conceived, never seems in my mind fully to dispense with such patrician sensibilities.
  • The humanities programs of the next century might rather be structured around “world humanisms.” In such programs the phrase “great texts” would evoke the Bhagavad Gita every bit as much as it does The Iliad. The learning of at least one world language would be required, be it Arabic, French, or Mandarin. At its center would be neither the vernacular nor an artificially constructed “Western tradition.”
  • Instead it would explore on their own terms, and in their rich cross-fertilization, millenia of world traditions offering insight on the relationships between individual and society; on our ethical obligations to our fellow beings, human and non-human; and on flourishing and justice.
  • An example of a “world humanisms” approach is suggested by a conference that I recently attended in Istanbul, which brought together philosophers and theologians from North America and Turkey. One of the many rich portraits that emerged was of first-century Alexandria, where the Neoplatonism of the Jewish philosopher Philo directly influenced the early Christians Clement and Origen, as well as laying the foundations of Islamic philosophy through al-Kindi and al-Farabi. We are blinded to the study of this kind of influence by a focus on “Western Civilization” that favors Athens and Rome to Alexandria and treats Origen only as a precursor to Saint Augustine, that supposed inventor of an exclusively Christian syncretism between philosophy and theology.
  • Our task as humanists of the twenty-first century is to make those long and deep traditions visible, and to do so in the teeth of those forces that would strip them away, be those forces technological, commercial, political, or intellectual.
  • Sarah Eeee on 10 Jan 11
     
    An alternate take on the "future of the humanities" argument. This author proposes a revamped sort of literature study incorporating modern languages and a fervently international approach to literature, thought, and culture.
  • Sarah Eeee on 10 Jan 11
     
    This one skirts the edges of the digital humanities, by proposing a vision of future literature study. Explicitly digital projects could be useful for finding the international connections this author calls for.
Ashley Lewis

I-Search Project - 1 views

edtechteacher.org/isearch.html

technology research

shared by Ashley Lewis on 26 May 11 - Cached
  • Ashley Lewis on 26 May 11
     
    Sound familiar?
Rachael Schiel

Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy submissions - 1 views

ojs.gc.cuny.edu/...submissions

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  • Rachael Schiel on 25 May 11
     
    Discussed in class.
Gideon Burton

Troy Hicks on Digital Writing - 0 views

www.stevehargadon.com/...-9th-live-with-troy-hicks.html

education2.0 digital writing writing

shared by Gideon Burton on 05 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • We'll talk about how to apply digital writing skills effectively in the classroom, since many students may be adept at text messaging and communicating online but do not know how to craft a basic essay. Troy will also discuss how best to integrate new technologies into writing instruction.
  • Gideon Burton on 05 Jun 11
     
    Educational leader Steve Hargadon is conducting a webinar with Troy Hicks on the topic of Digital Writing. This was recommended by a prior student, Ben Miller.
Andrea Ostler

Why eBooks Matter - 1 views

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digital literature

shared by Andrea Ostler on 12 May 11 - No Cached
  • Andrea Ostler on 12 May 11
     
    An interesting blog I found that talks about the changing times and the importance of technology in learning
Carlie Wallentine

Robotic Teacher in Japan--kinda creepy actually. - 0 views

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technology education future teacher children

shared by Carlie Wallentine on 13 May 11 - No Cached
  • Carlie Wallentine on 13 May 11
     
    Apart from working on the first robotic french kiss, they've also got a robotic teacher in Japan. She looks a bit like Michael Jackson to me....
Gideon Burton

Technological singularity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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vernor vinge rainbows end aritifcial intelligence singularity futurism

shared by Gideon Burton on 02 May 11 - Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 02 May 11
     
    This ties into the theme of artificial intelligence in Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End
  • Gideon Burton on 02 May 11
     
    Guys this is the bomb. Check it out or die!
Amy Whitaker

The U.S. Secret Service is Following You on Twitter - 0 views

news.yahoo.com/...bG93aW5neW91b250d2l0dGVyBGNjb2

government and technology

shared by Amy Whitaker on 07 May 11 - No Cached
  • Amy Whitaker on 07 May 11
     
    Does this promote citizen involvment and interest in the government, or is this Big Brotherish? I can't decide.
Derrick Clements

Robotic "Tongue" Lets You French Kiss Over The Internet - Slashdot - 3 views

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  • Derrick Clements on 06 May 11
     
    Now that's what I call a wearable! Also...um...WHAT?!
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  • Rachael Schiel on 06 May 11
     
    This is an example of the improper use of technology.............
  • Carlie Wallentine on 06 May 11
     
    Haha! I sent this to my long distance boyfriend. He said our class is crazy. Thanks for the laugh.
  • Bri Zabriskie on 06 May 11
     
    um ... ew? :) Dare we ask how you found this?
  • Derrick Clements on 06 May 11
     
    Of course, I was googling robotic kissing methods.
Bri Zabriskie

About » open thinking - 1 views

educationaltechnology.ca/...about

educational technology web2.0

shared by Bri Zabriskie on 12 Jul 11 - Cached
  • Bri Zabriskie on 12 Jul 11
     
    a blog about the educational uses of blogging and podcasting if you're interested
Bri Zabriskie

YouTube - ‪It Happens Online‬‏ - 1 views

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educational technology

shared by Bri Zabriskie on 12 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Bri Zabriskie on 12 Jul 11
     
    tech in hs learning ... like a promo vid for it
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