Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities
Subject
Digital humanities
Description
Higher-Education gets a make-over.
Abstract
"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 infrastructure is being questioned, and even more importantly, being hacked. Sympathetic scholars of traditionally disparate disciplines are canceling their association memberships and building their own networks on Facebook and Twitter. Journals are being compiled automatically from self-published blog posts. Newly minted PhDs are forgoing the tenure track for alternative academic careers that blur the lines between research, teaching, and service. Graduate students are looking beyond the categories of the traditional CV and building expansive professional identities and popular followings through social media. Educational technologists are “punking” established technology vendors by rolling out their own open source infrastructure.
Here, in Hacking the Academy, Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt have gathered a sampling of the answers to their initial questions from scores of engaged academics who care deeply about higher education. These are the responses from a wide array of scholars, presenting their thoughts and approaches with a vibrant intensity, as they explore and contribute to ongoing efforts to rebuild scholarly infrastructure for a new millennium."
Creator
Cohen, Daniel J. and Dr. Joseph Thomas Scheinfeldt PhD
Cohen, Daniel J., and Tom Scheinfeldt. Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities. N.p.: U of Michigan, 2013. Print.
Cohen, Daniel J.;
Frisch, Michael;
Gallagher, Patrick;
Mintz, Steven;
Sword, Kristen;
Taylor, Amy Murrell;
Thomas, William G.;
Turkel, William J.;
Publisher
Oxford University Press; Organization of American Historians
Date
2008-09
Contributor
Wolf, Casey
Type
Journal Article
Bibliographic Citation
Cohen, Daniel J., et al. "Interchange: The Promise of Digital History." Journal of American History 95, no. 2 (September 2008): 452-491. Accessed April 22, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/25095630
The Digital Archive as a Tool for Close Reading in the Undergraduate Literature Course.
Subject
Pedagogy
Description
Close readings of literary texts afford the student opportunities for isolating and analyzing elements of text, thereby revealing cultural and stylistic influences of author, printer, and society. Digitization of print facilitates close reading by providing the student access to extensive collections throughout different eras and cultures. Upon careful reading, comparison, and reflection, students perceive the significance of changes in the structure, overall form, and style of the text. Joanne Diaz, author and professor of English, discusses the benefits of using the Early English Books Online archive with undergraduate students. By sharing her students’ close readings and subsequent discoveries into textuality and effects of, say punctuation, on the meaning and purpose of a text, Diaz also provides a pedagogical function of the digital archive.
Creator
Diaz, Joanne T.
Publisher
Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to to Teaching Literature Language Composition and Culture
Date
2012
Contributor
Polk, Victoria
Rights
2015 by Duke University Press
Type
Journal Article
Bibliographic Citation
Diaz, Joanne T. "The Digital Archive as a Tool for Close Reading in the Undergraduate Literature Course." Pedagogy, v12 n3 (2012): 425-447.
Digital Archives: Management, Access and Use offers an overview of the constantly evolving technological changes and improvements in the world and how digital archiving is affected by this. This book provides insights from international experts who contribute information on the changes in archives and what these changes mean in the long run. These experts also weigh-in on building digital archives, offering solutions to obstacles in planning and curating an archive while discussing the tools needed to aid with changes in the digital humanities. The book is separated into two parts; the first part, titled “Drivers for Modern Digital Archives” covers the basics of digital archives, managing possible “turbulence” or overcoming computer-related obstacles, legal issues involving digital archives, and scientific information policies. The entire second part of the book, titled “Case Studies,” covers a case study between two oral histories. This book offers basic information about Digital Archiving, while delving deeper into the management of a digital archive. This book also offers a section that covers recent developments in the archive world, and even offers a “How to Read this Book” section that breaks down abbreviations and provides suggestions on the order to read the book (in the order they appear). This book offers an in-depth look at managing digital archives and is good for archivists and researchers alike.
Creator
Dobreva, Milena
Publisher
Facet Publishing
Date
2018
Contributor
Lafontaine, Marisa
Type
E-Book
Identifier
ISBN: 9781783301140, 9781856049344, 9781783302406
Bibliographic Citation
Dobreva, Milena. Digital Archives : Management, Access and Use. Facet Books for Archivists and Records Managers. London: Facet Publishing, 2018.
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This book is very informative when it comes how to manage, access, and use digital archives. It provides well plan out explanations of how rapid technological changes and the push for providing wide access to digitalized cultural heritage holdings are changing the field.]]>2020-05-02T17:22:15+00:00
Title
Digital Archives: Management, Access and Use
Subject
Digital Humanities
Description
Digital Archives: Management, Access, and Use is a collection that presents an expensive look at how rapid technological changes and the push for providing wide access to digitized cultural heritage holdings are changing the field. It also provides a set of inspirational and informative chapters from international experts that will help readers understand the drivers for change in archives and their implications. There is a variety of topics that are explored in this source. It discusses cultural institutions that are experimenting with sustainable business models for cultural production, the digitization of analog cultural heritage, intellectual property rights issues surrounding the re-use of digital objects and data for research, education, advocacy, and art, state-of-the-art solutions for building digital archives on networked infrastructure, trusted digital repositories for ensuring long-term access, and tools to serve emerging needs in digital humanities. It will help the readers understand the drivers for change in archives and their implications. Throughout the book, there are a set of inspirational and informative chapters from international experts. This will help the readers understand the drivers for change in archives and their implications.
This book is very informative when it comes how to manage, access, and use digital archives. It provides well plan out explanations of how rapid technological changes and the push for providing wide access to digitalized cultural heritage holdings are changing the field.
Creator
Dobreva, Milena
Publisher
Facet Publishing
Date
2018
Contributor
Stephen Taggart
Type
E-Book
Identifier
ISBN: 9781783301140, 9781856049344, 9781783302406
Bibliographic Citation
Dobreva, Milena. Digital Archives : Management, Access and Use. Facet Books for Archivists and Records Managers. London: Facet Publishing, 2018.
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The unit starts with identifying key elements of physical texts (rare books from the university library) and how those might translate into a digital environment. It then moves through digitization and into the ways that computers impact our reading and analysis of texts, focusing on some introductory text analysis tools and text markup. Though my assignments revolve around computers and bytes more than paper and highlighters, they share the goal articulated by Paul Fyfe in “Digital Pedagogy Unplugged”: “to keep students’ attention on the critical labor that digital resources seem to dissolve” (par. 12). By introducing my students to the process of creating familiar products like a digitized text or a word cloud, I hoped to demonstrate to them that the act of building a digital product or working tool is always an act of interpretation. (Provided by author)]]>2016-08-17T23:04:06+00:00
Title
From Text to Tags: The Digital Humanities in an Introductory Literature Course
Subject
Pedagogy
Description
The class, titled “Introduction to Literary Study,” helps students build the foundational skills commonly used for the study of literature, including close reading, textual analysis, attention to genre and form, and attention to material and historical contexts. These are all skills that experts working in the digital humanities use to produce projects like digital scholarly editions, tools for large-scale analysis, and visual representations of texts and intertextual relationships. However, my students (largely sophomores), needed to work on honing those skills rather than applying them to a large-scale project or series of complex texts. With that in mind, I designed a digital humanities unit made up of a series of small assignments oriented towards experimenting with digitization and text analysis in a fairly low-stakes environment.
The unit starts with identifying key elements of physical texts (rare books from the university library) and how those might translate into a digital environment. It then moves through digitization and into the ways that computers impact our reading and analysis of texts, focusing on some introductory text analysis tools and text markup. Though my assignments revolve around computers and bytes more than paper and highlighters, they share the goal articulated by Paul Fyfe in “Digital Pedagogy Unplugged”: “to keep students’ attention on the critical labor that digital resources seem to dissolve” (par. 12). By introducing my students to the process of creating familiar products like a digitized text or a word cloud, I hoped to demonstrate to them that the act of building a digital product or working tool is always an act of interpretation. (Provided by author)
Creator
Ficke, Sarah
Publisher
John Hopkins University Press
Date
2014-07
Contributor
Eaddy, Brionna
Type
Journal Article
Bibliographic Citation
Sarah H. Ficke. "From Text to Tags: The Digital Humanities in an Introductory Literature Course." CEA Critic 76, no. 2 (2014): 200-210. https://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed April 20, 2016).
This book addresses six key concepts that are pivotal for understanding the influence of new media on contemporary culture. The specific chapter on Archive lays the groundwork for understanding digital archiving. It reiterates the work of Derrida and Foucault, providing context, while also touching on new technology uses in the digital age. Gane and Beer conclude “archives are depositories for the storage of written documents. This chapter provides foundational history on digital archiving while touching on critical theorists creating a bridge between literary studies and technology. As an introductory chapter on the archive, it provides a scope of understanding for new scholars interested in learning about creating an archive.
Creator
Gane, Nicholas
Beer, David
Date
2012
Contributor
Elena Rogalle
Type
Book
Identifier
ISBN-13: 978-1845201333
Bibliographic Citation
Gane, Nicholas and David Beer. New Media: The Key Concepts. London: Berg, 2012.
Examines how the archive evolved to include new technologies, practices, and media, and how it became the apparatus through which we map the everyday
Creator
Giannachi, Gabriella
Publisher
Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press
Date
2016
Contributor
Steven Eley
Type
eBook
Identifier
ISBN: 9780262035293. 9780262335416.
Bibliographic Citation
Giannachi, Gabriella. 2016. Archive Everything : Mapping the Everyday. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000tna&AN=1426884&authtype=shib&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
The New York Philharmonic has performed 15,000 concerts since it started in 1842, more than any other group in the world. Because of this they have a vast collection of historical items, including music, rosters, newspaper clippings, and every single program. The New York Philharmonic has reflected the cultural and political events throughout their history. Their music can also be traced through the advent of historically new mediums. Music lovers from around the world have frequented their physical archives. Therefore, they feel that it is necessary to digitize their archives. They will spend the next three (now about two) years digitizing thousands of archives so that they can be accessed by anyone at any time. In this way, student conductors can study videos of the best conductors, as well as see their notes on the music itself at the same time. The archive allows one to see priceless information in one place and to listen while viewing the music, program, or roster. In the next ten years, they plan to make 8 million documents and 7,000 audio recordings available online. In this way, they hope to share a “collective memory.”
Creator
Gilbery, Alan
Publisher
The New York Philharmonic
Date
02-02-2011
Contributor
Polk, Victoria
Type
Video Recording
Identifier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A9yEv7dLzE
Bibliographic Citation
Gilbery, Alan. “The Digital Archives: A Vision for the Future.” New York Philharmonic. YouTube Video. Posted on February 2, 2012. Accessed February 6, 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A9yEv7dLzE.
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Another distinguishing characteristic of Debates in the Digital Humanities is the inclusion of blogs and tweets. These contemporary forums of intellectual exchange demonstrate a medium most apt for identifying and discovering the social as well as technical milieu in which digital humanists operate. Gold appropriately includes the blogs to reiterate the intertwinement of digital media (i.e. social networking) and disciplinary theory and practice.
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Title
Debates in the Digital Humanities
Subject
Digital Humanities
Description
The study of digital humanities is in transition as it adapts its origins in computation and textual analysis to the media-specific analysis and cultural conventions of emerging digital technologies. In this text, Matthew Gold gathers the varying perspectives and critical issues debated by notable digital humanities scholars, who present the reader with fundamental differences and potential areas of research. Debatable issues include defining the digital humanities and theorizing its discipline as method or as evidence of a larger, socio-cultural phenomenon. Whether digital humanists are defined by their “building” and “hacking” skills as opposed to merely adapting digital technologies to traditional humanistic study, and to what degree cultural attitudes toward race and politics become embedded in software codes and interfaces are questions that challenge these digital humanities scholars and practitioners as they also grapple with tenure-driven constraints to practice traditional scholarship.
Another distinguishing characteristic of Debates in the Digital Humanities is the inclusion of blogs and tweets. These contemporary forums of intellectual exchange demonstrate a medium most apt for identifying and discovering the social as well as technical milieu in which digital humanists operate. Gold appropriately includes the blogs to reiterate the intertwinement of digital media (i.e. social networking) and disciplinary theory and practice.
Creator
Gold, Matthew, Ed.
Publisher
The University of Minnesota Press
Date
2012
Contributor
Polk, Victoria
Rights
University of Minnesota Press
Type
Book
Identifier
978-0816677955
Bibliographic Citation
Gold, Matthew K., ed. Debates in the Digital Humanities. Minneapolis: Univeriversity of Minnesota Press, 2012.