Comments on: Proposal: #alt-ac Support Group

By: miriam.posner

miriam.posner — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:32:21 +0000

Damn right, Croxall.

By: briancroxall

briancroxall — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:46:51 +0000

And...if I had just gone on to read Miriam's session proposal, I would have seen that she already said much the same thing that I had said. As is the way with Miriam and I, however, I have said it far less eloquently than she did. The score: Miriam 89 - Brian 3.

By: briancroxall

briancroxall — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:44:42 +0000

I love me some #alt-ac. Without trying to undermine the direction that this session might take, I’m going to advocate for coming up with something concrete by the end of it, perhaps akin to the Collaborators’ Bill of Rights that we can share with the larger community.

By: miriam.posner

miriam.posner — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:55:13 +0000

Awesome idea! I’m in.

By: #alt-ac with a research agenda: what that means, what we want, how to get it | THATCamp CHNM 2011

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:40:00 +0000

[…] Kimon pointed out, a lot of us DH-ers are “alternate academics”: we’re trained as academics and are […]

By: Cathy Saunders

Cathy Saunders — Tue, 31 May 2011 21:09:22 +0000

As an academic who is fairly “traditional” in some ways (I have a full-time job teaching at the college level) but “alternate” in the sense that I’m not on the tenure track, I’m definitely interested in this panel (and in the ways the experiences of contingent faculty are both like and unlike those of PhDs who’ve chosen non-teaching but still “academic” jobs).

By: Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson — Tue, 31 May 2011 02:09:57 +0000

One of the best parts about the #alt-ac “movement” is that its parameters are largely defined by its practitioners (not unlike the larger DH community, at that). That being said, I go back and forth about whether librarianship (as traditionally defined) is an #alt-ac field–I sometimes end up calling it “peri-ac,” because for some librarians it’s been about being near or a part of an academic community without being viewed as “alternate to.”

That’s a long way of saying: heck yeah, let’s talk about #alt-ac and how to set about being #alt-ac! Alex makes a great point, too, about the need to explore how alt-ac itself will shape scholarship–both in terms of questions asked and in terms of sharing credit in collaborative project settings.

By: Jennifer Sano-Franchini

Jennifer Sano-Franchini — Sun, 29 May 2011 20:37:15 +0000

I am also interested in this panel–I probably know much less about alt-ac than I should. Also, the topic Alex Gil brought up about the implications of alt-ac on scholarship sounds interesting.

By: Alex Gil

Alex Gil — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:34:26 +0000

Yes. You can count me in for this panel. I am also interested in talking about the ways in which the future of scholarship itself can be determined by the fate of alt-acs in the near future.

By: Roger Whitson

Roger Whitson — Sat, 28 May 2011 14:53:31 +0000

Love this idea! We had an #alt-ac panel at THATCamp_SE, and I found it extremely useful. I’d love to come to this session.