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 the past...
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 i...
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...
What is digital rhetoric ? This book aims to answer that question by looking at a number of interrelated histories, as well as evaluating a wide range of methods and practices from fields in the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences to determine what might constitute the work and the world of digital rhetoric. The advent of digital and networked communication technologies prompts renewed interest in basic questions such asWhat counts as a text?andCan traditional rhetoric operate in digital spheres or will it need to be revised? Or will we need to invent new...
What is digital rhetoric ? This book aims to answer that question by looking at a number of interrelated histories, as well as evaluating a wide range...
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 that...
The essays in "Web Writing" respond to contemporary debates over the proper role of the Internet in higher education, steering a middle course between...
Although many humanities scholars have been talking and writing about the transition to the digital age for more than a decade, only in the last few years have we seen a convergence of the factors that make this transition possible: the spread of sufficient infrastructure on campuses, the creation of truly massive databases of humanities content, and a generation of students that has never known a world without easy Internet access. "Teaching History in the Digital Age" serves as a guide for practitioners on how to fruitfully employ the transformative changes of digital media in the...
Although many humanities scholars have been talking and writing about the transition to the digital age for more than a decade, only in the last few y...
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...
