Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Your Twitter followers and Facebook friends won’t read your peer-reviewed article if they have to pay for it, and neither will strangers

Friday, January 7th, 2011

Here's the paper I'm giving today at the Modern Language Association convention in Los Angeles at the panel "The Open Professoriat: Public Intellectuals on the Social Web." You can see the slides on Google Docs and embedded below; the text of the talk (also given below) is in the speaker ...

Introduction to Digital Humanities

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Centers and Organizations The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) centerNet: An International Network of Digital Humanities Centers National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory Meetings Digital Humanities Annual Meeting THATCamp Journals and "Journals" Digital Humanities Quarterly Literary and Linguistic Computing Digital Humanities Now Books Blackwell Companion to the Digital Humanities Digital History: A Guide ...

The Binary Hero, World One, and World Zero

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Below is an expanded and revised version of the talk I gave at the South by Southwest Interactive panel Swarming Plato's Cave: Rethinking Digital Fantasies on March 16th, 2010. Talking with some folks at SXSW both before and after the panel definitely helped my thinking; thanks to all of you, ...

Make “10″ louder, or, the amplification of scholarly communication

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Here's a little spreadsheet I put together about Twitter use at three conferences: Digital Humanities 2009, THATcamp 2009, and the (just-ended) Modern Language Association convention of 2009: As you can probably see, what I did was to divide the total number of tweets during the date range of the ...

For Veterans’ Day: On John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields”

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

In honor of Veterans' Day (also known as Armistice Day), I'm posting here a short essay on the poem that inspired the Flanders poppy, John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields." This "essay" is actually a section of my 2004 dissertation, which concerns the 19-line poetic form called "the villanelle"; in the ...