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“Amplified Marginalia”: Social Reading, Listening, and Writing

HASTAC Scholars — Thu, 09 May 2013 15:01:27 +0000

“The text is a tissue of citations, resulting from the thousand sources of culture.”

- Roland Barthes

Visualization Across Disciplines

HASTAC Scholars — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:10:30 +0000

In recent years, visualization has become an all-purpose technique for communicating and exploring data within the humanities. There are a wide availability of tools offering different points of entry from IBM’s Many Eyes to Gephi to Tapor 2.0.

Dis/Ability: Moving Beyond Access in the Academy

HASTAC Scholars — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:18:29 +0000

Often, accessibility is—as Jay Dolmage and John Slatin have argued—a retrofit or add on. That is, it is often not an integral part of our theoretical conversations, classroom spaces, and technologies. It is this attention to technology, though, which focuses this forum and can—in many ways—begin to centralize dis/ability. For example, clear online accessibility guidelines developed by such initiatives as The Accessibility Project and WebAIM bring diverse user experiences to the forefront of web design.

Visualizing Geography: Maps, Place, and Pedagogy

HASTAC Scholars — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:06:00 +0000

Mapping technology has recently been the focus of much critical attention as evidenced by numerous efforts to develop new ways of visualizing physical and textual spaces. The proliferation of tools such as Neatline, The DM Project, Google Earth, and Walking Through Time has made mapping the stuff of both academic endeavours and everyday life.

Alan Turing: The First Digital Humanist?

HASTAC Scholars — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:48:27 +0000

Alan Turing, an unsung hero, mathematician, code breaker, and first generation computer scientist. Turing is most known for his work helping to break the German Enigma codes during World War I and his provocative 1950 essay “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” where he posits artificial intelligence, the universal machine digital computer, and the now oft-cited “imitation game” or “Turing Test.” Unfortunately, all of Turing’s brilliance, achievements, and technohistorical importance are overshadowed by another thing for which he is known: his homosexuality.

The Future of Higher Education

HASTAC Scholars — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:50:19 +0000

As the opening forum for our 5th year of this program, we’d like to ask you, our most innovative and engaging Scholars:

What would you change in higher education?

How would you rethink graduate education?

The Future of Museums

HASTAC Scholars — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:30:46 +0000

The topic of museums and technology is a timely one - as museums of all sizes and types rush to embrace technologies - and also a challenging one, as these institutions attempt to embrace a participatory culture facilitated by new digital technologies, while at the same time retain their expertise and authority as guardians of our culture and heritage.

Pedagogical Ethics in a Digital Age

HASTAC Scholars — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:34:43 +0000

What are your ethics for teaching in a digital age?

Press Start to Continue: Toward a New Video Game Studies

HASTAC Scholars — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:53:24 +0000

In November 2008, HASTAC Scholars featured a forum on gaming called “Participatory Play: Digital Games From Spacewar! to Virtual Peace.” Given the interdisciplinary nature of video game studies, that forum cast a wide net and really demonstrated the variety of promising perspectives and investments being brought to the study of video games.

Pixels and Print: Redefining Academic Publishing & Scholarly Communication

HASTAC Scholars — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:46:24 +0000

Today marks the second day of the MLA 2012 Convention, and one of the largest events happened yesterday morning: a 3 hour workshop called Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion: A Workshop for Evaluators and Candidates.

Living Mediations: Biology, Technology and Art

HASTAC Scholars — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:00:54 +0000

First exhibited in Tokyo from 1995-1997, German anatomist Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibits have since been shown in over 50 venues throughout Asia, Europe, and North America, making them among the most successful traveling exhibitions ever.

[Announcement] HASTAC Scholars - Modeling a New Collective

slgrant — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 03:35:43 +0000

HASTAC Scholars will be participating in a New Collectives panel at DML2011: Designing Learning Futures.

Code Critiques

HASTAC Scholars — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:41:09 +0000

Welcome to the Code Critique forum. Here we are focusing on reading and critiquing specific code snippets. To get the discussion started, your hosts have chosen 5 programs to analyze, ranging across the uses (and abuses) of computer programing.

Critical Code Studies

HASTAC Scholars — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:36:17 +0000

At the recent MLA 2011, one of the largest conferences for humanities in the US, the question arose:

Feel the Noise: Sound, Music & Technology

HASTAC Scholars — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 21:31:40 +0000

Jonathan Sterne's The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (2003) has helped incite a surge of scholarship on listening, hearing, and sound in the humanities in recent years. The 2009 Thinking Hearing: The Auditory Turn in the Humanities conference held at the University of Texas at Austin demonstrates that a strong interest in sound studies is newly emerging in various disciplines. With this turn toward the study of sound, our conceptions of listening, sound, and auditory processes are undergoing a necessary critical reevaluation. However, despite all of the noise that sound has been generating in the academy, many sound-related discourses are still not in conversation with one another. So, rather than initiating a forum based on analysis and critique, on breaking down the subject, we are interested in amplifying, synthesizing, sampling, and remixing the current discourses on sound. We are listening for something new. We hope that putting these discourses in conversation with one another, tweaking the levels as we go, will help foster a nuanced, multi-layered understanding of the role of sound in the humanities and beyond.

Openness in Academia

HASTAC Scholars — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:41:31 +0000

The spirit of openness is gaining traction in academia, both with faculty who are coming to embrace openness in their teaching, research, and publications and with administrators who work to introduce openness in institutional policies. More than a dozen major universities now offer some of their course content to the general public through the use of OpenCourseWare or similar tools; hundreds of universities have committed to making research available through open access policies; and more than 5000 open-access journals are publishing scholarly work.

Blogs & Beyond: Teaching with Technology and Curiosity

HASTAC Scholars — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:40:06 +0000

Blogs & Beyond: Teaching with Technology and Curiosity

Queer & Feminist New Media Spaces

HASTAC Scholars — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:21:17 +0000

Introduction: Body Destiny
In many ways, following our Race and Ethnicity forum with one on Gender, Sexuality, and Queerness is a productive and intersectional connection, as this forum will also seek to unbind heteronormative, patriarchal and naturalized constructions of difference.

Race, Ethnicity, and Diaspora in the Digital Age

HASTAC Scholars — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:05:26 +0000

Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora, and the Other

Digital Storytelling

HASTAC Scholars — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:55:17 +0000

Depending on the context in which it is invoked, the term "digital storytelling" (DST) can refer to a disparate range of practices, theories, and issues -- from performance works staged in Second Life to questions about the implications of undocumented immigrants sharing their stories via cell phones.