Jerome McGann’s focus in this essay is directed at how crucial it is to establish both research and online scholarship as we reconsider the humanities in the digital age. He highlights the “systematic institutional dysfunction” as the crisis in humanities. He believes humanities scholarship can be sustained through the cooperation of four institutional agents: scholars, publishing companies, professional journals and libraries. He questions the institutional commitment to the development of digital systems that are meant to replace print-based systems. McGann recounts his experience with The Rosetti Archive, which now “comprises seventy thousand digital files and forty-two thousand hyperlinks.” This archive includes high-resolution images of all known work by Daniel Gabriel Rosetti, including art and manuscripts. McGann discusses important issues in regards to work in the humanities and claims that scholars in the field all have the same need no matter the delivery system (digital or print) and that is to make cultural records inclusive, constant, and accessible. Having another archive to investigate, especially one that is interdisciplinary is vital to future research on creating archives.
Creator
McGann, Jerome
Date
2011
Contributor
Elena Rogalle
Type
Journal article
Bibliographic Citation
McGann, Jerome. "On Creating a Usable Future." Profession (2011): 182-195.
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In the book, the authors provide examples of Susan Boyle and the show Mad Men, which proves that spreadable media refers not just those texts which circulate broadly but also those that achieve particularly deep engagement within a niche community. The show Mad Men exemplifies the meaning of spreadable media through the medium of television. In addition, the Voice in the UK could have had more participatory engagement if it was not restricted within the UK boundaries. The show became recognized globally in regards to Susan Boyle, a participant, and winner of the Voice. But the show was not recognized in itself because it was not aired outside of the UK so the spreadability was not as popular as it could have been. ]]>2016-08-17T23:51:32+00:00
Title
Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture
Subject
Digital Humanities
Description
Spreadable media is basically getting across the needed message from one person to another through the mouth or in this case through social media. If you break up the term, then spreadable means to describe these increasingly pervasive forms of media circulation and this has a parallel and contrast relation with the term stickiness that means attracting the audience’s attention and engagement. In regards, stickiness can prevent spreadable media because of the restriction people place for audience’s social connections such as charging a subscription fee and government censorship. In reality, spreadability emphasizes producing content in easy-to-share formats such as YouTube while stickiness makes spreading information forced where users cannot leave once on the site when the site disabled the Back button.
In the book, the authors provide examples of Susan Boyle and the show Mad Men, which proves that spreadable media refers not just those texts which circulate broadly but also those that achieve particularly deep engagement within a niche community. The show Mad Men exemplifies the meaning of spreadable media through the medium of television. In addition, the Voice in the UK could have had more participatory engagement if it was not restricted within the UK boundaries. The show became recognized globally in regards to Susan Boyle, a participant, and winner of the Voice. But the show was not recognized in itself because it was not aired outside of the UK so the spreadability was not as popular as it could have been.
Creator
Jenkins, Henry
Publisher
NYU Press
Date Copyrighted
2013
Contributor
Ortiz, Samuel
Type
Book
Identifier
ISBN: 0814743900, 9780814743904
Bibliographic Citation
Jenkins, Henry, Ford, Sam, and Green, Joshua. Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture. New York: NYU, 2013.
This website is an archive of digital history sources and resources. Filtering by either era, region, or topic brings the user to a dedicated portal which includes an interactive timelime, biographic information, articles, videos, visual resources, and external links. Its exhibitions are designed to engage the viewer by utilizing interactive tools adapted for use in a digital humanities context. The exhibits use Google Maps, Prezi, hyperlinks, and other digital tools to integrate archived primary sources into a narrative that both contextualizes and improves accessibility to facilitate a better connection with the viewers.
Creator
Ohio State University Department of History
Publisher
Ohio State University
Contributor
Wolf, Casey
Type
Website
Bibliographic Citation
Ohio State University Department of History. eHistory. Accessed April 22, 2016. http://ehistory.osu.edu/
This website contains multigenre, immersive educational experiences to engage with digitial history and the humanities. It offers interactive approaches to primary source documents that enable users to explore, analyze, and engage with the material. For educators, the website offers handouts, lesson plans, pre-made quizzes, discussion topics, and inquiry questions.
The focus of this article is to help eliminate several of the limitations that a traditional print has by providing a new model that suits the digital age. All the while giving readers the chance to participate in an active role regarding their own texts. Not only that, discussions on possibilities as well as prospects for the apparatus criticus regarding text editing and ways to easily access some of the benefits digital scholarships provides. That said, the author starts off by explaining an apparatus criticus and how most don’t even read them by comparing it to how people (usually college students when doing research papers) don’t check let alone read footnotes. So, to change that and get more readers engaged, the author proposes a way to fix that by outlining “what editors and readers can gain from a fundamentally new approach to the apparatus criticus.” In other words, the author wants to “somehow to record every little detail but only to confront the reader with the most important points.” The only problem with that is not every (print) editor does things the same way, some might put only what’s considered important while the rest is in the appendix. As a result, the author will show how he is able to go around that through an explained model throughout the rest of the article.
Publisher
Classical Association of the Middle West & South, Inc.
Date
Feb-March, 2017
Contributor
Hannah Baker
Type
Journal Article
Bibliographic Citation
Keeline, Tom. “The Apparatus Criticus in the Digital Age.” Classical Journal 112, no. 3 (2017): 342–63. https://doi.org/10.5184/classicalj.112.3.0342.