On May 21, 2010, Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt posted the following provocative questions online:
Can an algorithm edit a journal? Can a library exist without books? Can students build and manage their own learning management platforms? Can a conference be held without a program? Can Twitter replace a scholarly society?
As recently as the mid-2000s, questions like these would have been unthinkable. But today serious scholars are asking whether the institutions of the academy as they have existed for decades, even centuries, aren t becoming obsolete. Every aspect of scholarly...
On May 21, 2010, Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt posted the following provocative questions online:
In the field of history, the Web and other technologies have become important tools in research and teaching of the past. Yet the use of these tools is limited many historians and history educators have resisted adopting them because they fail to see how digital tools supplement and even improve upon conventional tools (such as books). In Pastplay, a collection of essays by leading history and humanities researchers and teachers, editor Kevin Kee works to address these concerns head-on. How should we use technology? Playfully, Kee contends. Why? Because doing so helps us think about...
In the field of history, the Web and other technologies have become important tools in research and teaching of the past. Yet the use of these tool...
Interdisciplining Digital Humanities sorts through definitions and patterns of practice over roughly sixty-five years of work, providing an overview for specialists and a general audience alike. It is the only book that tests the widespread claim that Digital Humanities is interdisciplinary. By examining the boundary work of constructing, expanding, and sustaining a new field, it depicts both the ways this new field is being situated within individual domains and dynamic cross-fertilizations that are fostering new relationships across academic boundaries. It also accounts for digital...
Interdisciplining Digital Humanities sorts through definitions and patterns of practice over roughly sixty-five years of work, providing an ove...
The essays in Web Writing respond to contemporary debates over the proper role of the Internet in higher education, steering a middle course between polarized attitudes that often dominate the conversation. The authors argue for the wise integration of web tools into what the liberal arts does best: writing across the curriculum. All academic disciplines value clear and compelling prose, whether that prose comes in the shape of a persuasive essay, scientific report, or creative expression. The act of writing visually demonstrates how we think in original and critical ways and in ways...
The essays in Web Writing respond to contemporary debates over the proper role of the Internet in higher education, steering a middle course be...
In the age of digital communications, it can be difficult to imagine a time when the meaning and imagery of stamps was politically volatile. Stamping American Memory is the first scholarly examination of stamp collecting culture and how stamps enabled citizens to engage their federal government in conversations about national life in early-twentieth-century America.
In the age of digital communications, it can be difficult to imagine a time when the meaning and imagery of stamps was politically volatile. Stamping ...
Investigating almost 10,000 works of fiction in the world's largest collection of mass-digitized historical newspapers (the National Library of Australia's Trove database), A World of Fiction reconceptualizes how fiction traveled globally, and was received and understood locally, in the 19th century.
Investigating almost 10,000 works of fiction in the world's largest collection of mass-digitized historical newspapers (the National Library of Austra...