MLA Commons | Digital Humanities | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities-2014/ Activity feed for the group, Digital Humanities. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:15:34 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5ade22451c7ed4d8122c9e7a94da0110 Brian Vetruba deposited Handbook for European Studies Librarians in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1894591/ Thu, 25 Jul 2024 03:01:32 -0400 Open-access monograph of 30 chapters by 36 authors in three parts: “Resources and Tools for Regions of Europe,” “Resources on Underrepresented Groups in Europe,” and “Current Issues in European Studies Librarianship.” This handbook helps librarians new to collection development for regions of Europe get up to speed on key resources and offers…[Read more]

]]> 0 35a90710fc07807712983bdae2565fbd Inés Vañó García started the topic Newly extended CFP (through 07/21) – JITP Special Issue in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/newly-extended-cfp-through-07-21-jitp-special-issue-2/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:15:24 -0400 <div class="entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-constrained">
<h4><strong>The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy</strong></h4>
<h4 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Themed Issue 24:</strong></h4>
<strong>Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation</strong>

<strong>Issue…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed0c0a9cca1891fd4c431e69a22fc674 Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP: Submissions for JITP Special Issue -Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-submissions-for-jitp-special-issue-labor-political-economy-and-activism-2/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:31:13 -0400 The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Themed Issue 24:

Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation

Issue Editors:

Matthew N. Hannah, Purdue University

Gabriel Hankins, Clemson University

Anna Alexis Larsson, Indiana University

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy…[Read more]

]]> 0 22635ecf805080aaa8e8469804e76955 Amanda Licastro started the topic MLA 2025 emerging technologies in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/mla-2025-emerging-technologies/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:38:23 -0500 Please share and apply to our CFP on emerging technologies for #MLA25. This guaranteed panel sponsored by the Libraries and Research Executive Forum will feature initiatives, collaborations, and partnerships that support emerging technologies in academic libraries. We hope to make visible the labor and infrastructure necessary to adapt to and e…[Read more]

]]> 0 c62385b67bc89ba2b7742e428c201301 Christopher Warren deposited The Early Modern Book of Numbers in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1855396/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:13:55 -0400 A book’s a book, and numbers are numbers, right? Well, maybe. For the Shakespeare Association of America seminar on “Counting (in) Early Modern Drama,” I proposed to give myself the task of understanding and then communicating the technological underpinnings of a digital facsimile. One specific question I wanted to address, with the help of…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf315f16d7f1e3ebcc66ad49ef0efbfe Brian Croxall deposited The Invisible Labor of DH Pedagogy in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847125/ Thu, 25 May 2023 02:25:39 -0400 In this essay, we examine the invisibility of pedagogical labor in digital humanities. We argue that the complexities of teaching DH require modes of instruction and effort that are unusual, uncounted, and undertheorized. Unlike publications or citation counts, it is difficult to quantify or to review. Why does DH teaching involve so much extra…[Read more]

]]> 0 f942a7565156199c34d69af4477fcb10 Carol Chiodo deposited The Role of the ESU in Creating a Values-Driven DH Community in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847121/ Thu, 25 May 2023 02:24:28 -0400 In this essay, we illustrate how the European Summer University in Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig (hereafter referred to as “ESU”) under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr has set forth a set of values that have built and continue to model a collaborative, communal, and compassionate future for higher education. We ide…[Read more]

]]> 0 0978c2cd6a9cc7baf6a275af4df19e74 Sylvia Fernandez deposited Global North and South Collaborative Efforts towards an Anti-Colonial Digital Humanities in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841603/ Sun, 16 Apr 2023 02:28:57 -0400 This presentation will discuss the pilot version of the “Urarina Digital Heritage Project,” a multilingual (English, Spanish and Urarina), Global North (United States) and South (Peru) collaborative effort between scholars and a digital humanities center at an R1 research institution in the United States and the Indigenous Urarina community in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 e322f3d3bd5551fef8034f13ed9fcd8a Sylvia Fernandez deposited Global North & South Collaborative Efforts towards an Anticolonial Digital Humanities in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1841598/ Sun, 16 Apr 2023 02:23:54 -0400 This presentation will discuss the pilot version of the “Urarina Digital Heritage Project,” a multilingual (English, Spanish and Urarina), Global North (United States) and South (Peru) collaborative effort between scholars and a digital humanities center at an R1 research institution in the United States and the Indigenous Urarina community in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 eac41600374395f65962358678043892 Carol Chiodo deposited De nostri temporis studiorum ratione and the Digital Humanities in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1771184/ Thu, 10 Feb 2022 02:33:38 -0500 Taking a page from eighteenth century philosopher Gianbattista Vico, this is a brief reflection on how Italian Studies scholars might view their work differently in light of the digital turn.

]]> 0 e3a41f62b0429c257ff623a2cf9111f0 Christopher Warren deposited Canst Thou Draw Out Leviathan with Computational Bibliography? New Angles on Printing Thomas Hobbes’ “Ornaments” Edition in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1761566/ Wed, 15 Dec 2021 02:29:33 -0500 This article attributes one of the three “first” editions of Leviathan to the London printer John Richardson (fl. 1673–1703), revising Noel Malcolm’s attribution to a different printer in the recent Clarendon Edition of Leviathan. We lay out the mystery of Leviathan’s so-called “Ornaments” edition and use evidence from damaged type pieces to say…[Read more]

]]> 0 acc8a4063fa94b79119b057869e67cbe Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Critical Making for Humanist Scholarship in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1747897/ Fri, 30 Jul 2021 02:25:02 -0400 Fall 2021, fully online, asynchronous course: Critical making is a practice of making as scholarship, grounded in the humanities, that interweaves design, function, and theory towards born-digital scholarly practice. Engaging in scholarly communication through digital platforms demands attention to code, software, and hardware. This course…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f9fec1677ae8ceebeac42b91a34b59b Brian Croxall deposited CFP: Debates in Digital Humanities Pedagogy in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1737110/ Tue, 04 May 2021 02:24:36 -0400 This is the Call for Papers for Debates in Digital Humanities Pedagogy, which was originally published in January 2019 at http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/cfps/cfp_2019_pedagogy.html. The site no longer exists, so we are depositing it here for archival and citational purposes.

]]> 0 c5d7b26d2bbd9e6fd03c7f6c4a17507e Mark Sample deposited ENG 296 - Science Fiction (Spring 2021) in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725436/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 02:24:19 -0500 The syllabus for science fiction course offered Spring 2021 in the English Department at Davidson College.

]]> 0 08acf478fe08533fe88a9eabe1b53478 Gabrielle Dean started the topic Society for Textual Scholarship 2021 conference in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/society-for-textual-scholarship-2021-conference-2/ Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:19:41 -0500 Please consider submitting a proposal for the 2021 conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship, to be hosted virtually by The New School May 19-22, on the theme Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions. Proposals are due February 8, for presentations in a variety of formats. The Society is keen to welcome new participants and encourage…[Read more]

]]> 0 964c2d06b53ebe881467fc4c8230f3fa Anastasia Salter deposited Texts & Technology in History Syllabus in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1721602/ Tue, 05 Jan 2021 02:30:17 -0500 This is the syllabus for the Spring 2021 section of Texts & Technology in History, which will be taught synchronously via Zoom at UCF as part of the PhD in T&T. This iteration of the course particularly considers whose texts are archived, who shapes our technologies, and which histories are preserved and retold.

]]> 0 91db8105b43283b5e9bd20a7e5928c6e Anastasia Salter deposited Theory & Practice of Interactive Storytelling: Online Course Syllabus in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1721587/ Tue, 05 Jan 2021 02:24:41 -0500 The syllabus for the Spring 2021 asynchronous online course “Theory & Practice of Interactive Storytelling,” which includes both critical and creative projects, and uses Twine, Inform 7, and Ren’Py.

]]> 0 d64ef741f0b30c0f10bfcd3c0f68a230 Anastasia Salter deposited Crafting is So Hardcore: Masculinized Making in Gaming Representations of Labor in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1717056/ Tue, 17 Nov 2020 02:24:35 -0500 In this paper we examine the representation of crafts in video games, particularly in “crafting systems” – collections of mechanics that are described as crafting within a game’s narrative. Real world crafting practitioners value creativity, expression, and mastery of material, but the act of crafting itself is often viewed by society as repro…[Read more]

]]> 0 3929171462e508940c775825b3897162 Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Social Media Research in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1705322/ Fri, 14 Aug 2020 02:23:39 -0400 Social media is a key contemporary site of activity for politics, entertainment, and relationships, but how can we study it? This course combines theory and practice; students will both read canonical and contemporary social media research from leading scholars and learn to engage with social media platforms to collect and analyze their own data.…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf8bde6ede085df9f940be6d051a62e4 Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Intro to Texts & Technology in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1704603/ Fri, 07 Aug 2020 02:25:12 -0400 The syllabus for the introductory course in the core sequence for PhD students in Texts & Technology at the University of Central Florida, with an emphasis on introducing interdisciplinary humanist scholarship along with academic writing practices and web platform fundamentals. This iteration was redesigned to be taught via Zoom, using a mix of…[Read more]

]]> 0 d314777135a8fd965dae6c16302c3745 Katina Rogers deposited "Collaboration" (Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities) in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1703771/ Fri, 31 Jul 2020 02:24:21 -0400 Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities is a peer-reviewed, curated collection of reusable and remixable resources for teaching and research. Organized by keyword, the annotated artifacts can be saved in collections for future reference or sharing. Each keyword includes a curatorial statement and artifacts that exemplify that keyword. This focus of…[Read more]

]]> 0 f57ceab7fcd7421255838b93fd610f1b Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Online Teaching in the Humanities in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1701568/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 02:33:29 -0400 What do you do when you are an instructional designer and also do DH? This paper shows the intersections of good online course design with digital humanities pedagogy.

]]> 0 c6c9961c20db4851b566e7cd31103a83 Brian Croxall deposited Who Teaches When We Teach DH? Some Answers and More Quesions in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1698927/ Sat, 18 Jul 2020 02:26:50 -0400 At the 2019 Digital Humanities Conference in Utrecht, the authors launched a survey designed to answer the question “Who Teaches When We Teach DH?”. In this short talk, we will present and discuss some of the findings.

]]> 0 1ee09cf12b9917a1f5123cea8060182a Matthew K. Gold deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities Syllabus in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1696621/ Sat, 11 Jul 2020 19:14:14 -0400 In this introduction to the digital humanities (DH), we will approach the field via a Caribbean Studies lens, exploring how an understanding of the digital based in the growing area of digital Caribbean studies might shape the larger field of DH.

The course aims to provide a landscape view of DH, paying attention to how its various approaches…[Read more]

]]> 0 73b6b0a3c4e773f41a82e2786e0b3068 Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited Books.Files: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry (A Report) in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1682249/ Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:25:54 -0400 The book publishing industry is an important social, cultural, and economic institution whose records deserve to be preserved for the public good. Books.Files was an exploratory project funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at assessing the archival value of digital assets in the contemporary publishing industry for stakeholders…[Read more]

]]> 0 d32f2f79f2d9d0be2f9650fe9a080ae5 Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Digital Wallace: Networked Pedagogies and Distributed Reading in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1676854/ Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:26:39 -0500 This is the peer-reviewed submission version of the essay, which focuses on the role that digital communication platforms can play in teaching and engaging with Wallace’s work.

]]> 0 7f81fe1c0b52355c4ca4ac29beb597dd Anastasia Salter deposited Theory and Practice of Interactive Storytelling Syllabus in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1673663/ Sun, 29 Dec 2019 16:25:21 -0500 Part of the Digital Media MA / Texts & Technology PhD Digital Media track at the University of Central Florida. In this graduate course, we’ll engage with the making and critique of interactive works ranging from “Choose Your Own Adventure” comics to electronic literature and interactive fiction. Drawing on readings including Janet Murray’s Hamlet…[Read more]

]]> 0 463b53c2258111e8c32b28fdf0a532a6 Mark Sample deposited "The Digital Humanities is not about Building, It’s about Sharing" in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1669110/ Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:25:23 -0400 This short chapter began as a blog post arguing that collaboration and sharing is one of the defining aspects of the digital humanities.

]]> 0 e3882f84ab677a5c23d8579ce1bd6083 Mark Sample deposited Death in the Digital Age Syllabus in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1669052/ Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:25:21 -0400 The syllabus for DIG 220: Death in the Digital Age, a course taught by Mark Sample at Davidson College in Spring 2019.

]]> 0 d28917bfc45087abd7200acfa498edb1 Mark Sample deposited Code in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1668978/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:26:04 -0400 A critical introduction to the keyword “code” as it relates to video games.

]]> 0 de77f91faf8bc3d50d9c1fccbbbd78a8 Mark Sample deposited "Location Is Not Compelling (Until It Is Haunted)" in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1668884/ Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:26:31 -0400 “Location Is Not Compelling (Until It Is Haunted).” The Mobile Story: Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies, ed. Jason Farman. New York: Routledge, 2013.

]]> 0 784dfc6e81175259026244e497b10bb1 Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited "Poor Black Squares": Afterimages of the Floppy Disk in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1668448/ Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:28:11 -0400 Chapter 21 of The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence, ed. Mark J.P. Wolf (New York and London: Routledge, 2019): 296-310.

]]> 0 61a6473e4ff3f1c89af59b2942ba4d3d Brian Croxall deposited Who Teaches When We Teach DH? A Survey in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1666268/ Sat, 12 Oct 2019 16:25:40 -0400 As the digital humanities have rapidly gained prominence and attention over the last decade, learning has shifted from individual experiences at training environments such as THATCamps and Institutes to more formal institutional instruction. This means that the number of people teaching digital humanities (DH) has had to increase. Who are these…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1d2fa57d7e41d0e3dd5bc9299ad3905 Anastasia Salter deposited But Does Pikachu Love You? Reproductive Labor in Casual and Hardcore Games in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1662005/ Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:25:49 -0400 Since the first Pokémon game launched in Japan in 1996, the series has been a balancing act between casual and hardcore gaming. While the first iteration and “core” series has emphasized a modified, accessible version of traditional JRPG mechanics, other titles have frequently emphasized so-called casual play; most recently, Pokémon Go lured in a…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c8ec04b9786d4ae42792f14f25a7538 Roger Whitson deposited DTC 356: Information Structures in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1660882/ Thu, 22 Aug 2019 03:49:02 -0400 DTC 356 explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political roles of information and data. Beginning with library classification systems and Wikipedia, the course then turns to the role of metadata in organizing collections and our lives before ending with a consideration of text-mining and topic modeling. The conclusion considers these techniques in…[Read more]

]]> 0 72b33ed7a95261fcb2a60c8196a86ed2 Anastasia Salter deposited Introduction to Texts & Technology in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1660262/ Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:27:17 -0400 Syllabus for the introductory course in UCF’s Texts & Technology PhD program. Builds on a previous iteration of the course taught by Mel Stanfill.

]]> 0 5a69fc9300673bb81459eab415eef269 Anastasia Salter deposited Building Interactive Stories in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1657401/ Thu, 11 Jul 2019 16:25:55 -0400 The integration of interactive stories into digital humanities practice has taken several forms. Interactive stories are certainly an object of study, and the intersection of digital humanities with media and games studies (as well as communities dedicated to making and studying interactive stories, such as the Electronic Literature Organization,…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad2363ed3ef155e30ae4f58ded278895 Alexander Gil created the doc Placing Césaire: Some Considerations on Cartography and Enumerative Bibliographies in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633565/ Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:44:54 -0500 0 32d9d056c3eb5df68bcf2577b2e877ae Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited ENGL 759C BookLab: How to Do Things with Books in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1630618/ Tue, 29 Jan 2019 16:25:21 -0500 Graduate-level syllabus for a seminar in the Department of English. Neither “history of the book” nor “media studies,” this course sits somewhere in-between combining the ethos of a makerspace with the hands-on resources of a letterpress and book arts studio.

]]> 0 957d9f9d04f352a8ca6b38b86f140048 Matthew K. Gold deposited Issues of Labor, Credit, and Care in Peer-to-Peer Review Processes in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628453/ Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:26:05 -0500 This talk focuses on peer review models, considering issues of labor and credit within them. It then turns to the ethos of care to discuss how peer-to-peer review processes can be structure with care to ensure that participant labor is valued. The talk ends with a focus on the nature of the labor in peer-to-peer review, arguing that it is…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc62e7e74f51fc3cc50f773c186d9204 Roger Whitson deposited DTC 392: Video Games Theory and History in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628279/ Tue, 08 Jan 2019 03:53:26 -0500 History and theory of video games with a focus on cultural impact.

DTC 392 explores the cultural and historical impact of video games. We will learn about these issues by engaging in a semester-long project where we will prototype a video game. Video games are not just entertainment: they can be art, a form of political resistance, even a way…[Read more]

]]> 0 4cd1dceaceff8deb261e92d32dfe4064 Spencer Keralis deposited Disrupting Labor in the Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628276/ Tue, 08 Jan 2019 03:51:35 -0500 Digital humanists have a labor problem, but it’s not what you might think. In this chapter, I describe the problem of student labor in digital humanities as I see it, and examine some of the structural issues that drive the use of student labor. I place the labor economy of digital humanities projects within the broader context of the innovation e…[Read more]

]]> 0 f576696df1189ec20bd8d3f5d48ab543 Ben Doyle started the topic *New Humanities programme and DH list - call for proposals* in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/new-humanities-programme-and-dh-list-call-for-proposals/ Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:31:57 -0500 *NEW HUMANITIES PROGRAMME AND DH LIST: CALL FOR PROPOSALS! *

Emerald Publishing (2018 IPG Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year) is pleased to announce investment in a new Humanities book programme. Our commitment to interdisciplinary research means that we are moving into the Humanities for the first time, building new lists primarily in…[Read more]

]]> 0 466ddabfcae5c36500effd806a58ba3c Christopher Warren deposited Historiography’s Two Voices: Data Infrastructure and History at Scale in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1624954/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:25:21 -0500 Behind the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a deep substrate that includes a vast data management system, highly detailed SGML markup conventions, extensive international labor, and the enormous cultural weight of the Victorian-era DNB. In this article, I argue that it is only by investigating components of our historiographical…[Read more]

]]> 0 9331f9cca1749e32e7783a29038cc403 Brian Croxall deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities, Fall 2018 Syllabus in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1618072/ Wed, 12 Sep 2018 16:25:34 -0400 This syllabus is my fifth version of a course aimed at introducing the digital humanities at an undergraduate level. In consultation with my colleagues, I decided that this year’s version should also include a unit that looked at digital objects with a humanities perspective. The course is organized around four projects, each of which is oriented…[Read more]

]]> 0 46a3fd749632bba639516eeeb10d7216 Roger Whitson deposited DTC 356: Information Structures (Fall 2018) in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615867/ Sun, 19 Aug 2018 03:51:08 -0400 Catalog Description
356 Information Structures 3 Course Prerequisite: DTC 101. Social and cultural role of information; research with electronic sources; production, validation, storage, retrieval, evaluation, use, impact of electronic information. (Crosslisted course offered as DTC 356, ENGLISH 356).

Course Description
DTC 356 explores the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c16c8d2df7ca2f4170444b7c60f57ebe Roger Whitson deposited DTC 475: Digital Diversity (Fall 2018) in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615864/ Sun, 19 Aug 2018 03:49:14 -0400 Catalog Description
475 [DIVR] Digital Diversity 3 Course Prerequisite: Junior standing. Cultural impact of digital media in cultural contexts; issues of race, class, gender, sexuality online. (Crosslisted course offered as AMER ST 475, DTC 475, ENGLISH 475).

Course Description
DTC 475 is a continuation of the issues explored in DTC 206,…[Read more]

]]> 0 611c3e1a1bfad86e4be6ef2ee1c7f470 Jentery Sayers deposited Optophonic Reading, Prototyping Optophones in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1615141/ Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:19:44 -0400 This article details the contributions of blind readers to the development, design, and marketing of the optophone, a text-to-tone transcription machine introduced in the early twentieth century. We combine archival research with prototyping to investigate the dimensions involved in past coding and decoding practices. If archives provide…[Read more]

]]> 0 13b477e4fdc2788b723978fd401395bf Jentery Sayers deposited Studying Media through New Media in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1610964/ Sat, 16 Jun 2018 04:16:47 -0400 The Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities is about researching media through new media: for example, playing games to better understand their politics and mechanics, exhibiting new media art to witness how people engage it, building stories to become more familiar with their structures and narratives, making wearable technologies to…[Read more]

]]> 0 19768e5fdfb0c8d7b7aad144b9525a80 Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Obsolescence and Innovation in the Age of the Digital in the group Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1608681/ Fri, 18 May 2018 04:12:31 -0400 The relationship between obsolescence and innovation in the digital age is a peculiar one, conveying not past and future but instead demonstrating their eternal simultaneity.

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