According to Urban Dictionary (most credible source EVER!), the phrase “speak truth to power” means: A phrase coined by the Quakers during in the mid-1950s. It was a call for the United States to stand firm against fascism and other forms of totalitarianism; it is a phrase that seems to unnerve political right, with reason. …
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Power, Privilege, and the Ethics of DH
Being new to the digital humanities world, I stumbled around quite a bit in search of an appropriate maiden project. To put it lightly, I hit a few roadblocks. It was frustrating, but it got me thinking. I mean, REALLY thinking. Thinking hard about philosophical things. Things that make my brain hurt… but in a …
A Digital History of the Digital Humanities
Building off something that crossed my mind some time ago, it seems to me that “the history of humanities computing” is ripe for an online presentation–one that (naturally) uses all the best practices for the gathering and presentation of history in the digital environment. It’s got everything we need: a finite start date in the …
Is Digital Literacy a Done Deal?
Recently I and a number of my colleagues were discussing the possibility of a curriculum and center based around addressing and supporting undergraduate students’ interactions with academic technologies (defined broadly). [Note that we used the term “digital fluency” to describe the skills, attitudes, and understandings we thought students needed in an information-rich, multimedia, often-changing, electronic …
THATCamp: A week and a day away
Some reminders and information as we approach THATCamp CHNM: Campers have been proposing and commenting on some rather astonishingly awesome sessions — "The Politics of Data," "Building a Better Backchannel," an independent "UnPress" for academic publishing, paper prototyping "nifty visual interfaces," and diversity and accessibility in digital humanities, just for example. Check them out for …
Documentation: Love it or Hate it, We Need It
How does the availability, writing style, and level of completeness of documentation influence our willingness to use a digital tool or to engage in a project? More important, how does it effect the core audiences for our projects? I use the term “documentation” to refer to any set of instructional writing or media (printed and/or …
Proposal: THATCamp UnPress
Yesterday, Mark Sample lead an interesting conversation on Twitter with @kfitz, @eymand, and @JenHoward on the possibility of setting up a “digital-based indie academic press.” Today, he elaborated: I was riffing on these ideas yesterday on Twitter, asking, for example, what’s to stop a handful of of scholars from starting their own academic press? It …
Humanities books online and off
The issue I’d like to discuss is how to streamline the creation of a web presence for our scholarly publications. Since for tenure purposes we still have to publish print books, some scholars are thinking about ways to extend their books to the web (e.g. environmental historians Richard White and Karl Jacoby). This is often …
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