What Difference Does New Media Make to Doing History?
It makes me sad to say that this is my last blog post for Clio Wired I. I have learned a great deal, and really enjoyed learning both the bigger picture of digital history, and some hands-on skills with it. So, we come to the final post for class. What difference does new media make [...]
Opening up–or locking down–scholarly communication
This week’s readings (Week 13) focused on the interrelated, sometimes opposed, issues of copyright and open access in scholarly (and other) communication. I greatly enjoyed all of the readings, but the one that resonated with me most was Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture. This well-written book–so well-written that in spite of having plenty of other readings, [...]
Visualization & Scholarship
Of this week’s readings, I found Martyn Jessop’s “Digital Visualization as a Scholarly Activity” [PDF] particularly interesting, as it got me thinking about other class discussions we’ve had about the nature of scholarship, and particularly what counts as scholarship. This article discusses visualization as scholarship. Similar to Jo Guldi‘s argument that spatialization has a long [...]
Data Mining & Distant Reading: Valuable Tools, but Merely Tools
This week’s readings (scroll to Week 10) concerned using digital technology to “read” texts in different ways. I use the term “read” in quotation marks to draw attention to it, as this is not what many of us colloquially call reading–that is, what you are doing now, going over my post with your eyes. That [...]
Scholarship in the digital realm
This week’s readings concerned the question of scholarship in the digital realm. Specifically, what is digital scholarship, and how is it evaluated? As the semester has gone on, we’ve learned how the digital makes a difference in format. As Lev Manovich discussed in last week’s reading, The Language of New Media, the rectangular computer screen [...]
Final grant proposal
Can be found here.
Week 8: Theory of New Media
John and I are this week’s discussion leaders. We’ve been emailing thoughts back and forth, and decided that each of us are posting our own thoughts/questions for the discussion on our respective blogs, and further commenting. So here are my thoughts: We envision the discussion going along two interconnected strands: considering Manovich’s work on its [...]
Reflections on the proposal for “Familiar Strangers”
In this post, I am answering several questions about my proposal for “Familiar Strangers,” a website about U.S. and Mexican visitors to each others’ countries between 1776 and 1846. Thanks to my lovely wife Laura, Sharon (the professor), Andrea, and my other classmates for their feedback on the proposal draft [PDF] and the presentation. What [...]
Presentation: “Familiar Strangers”
Here is my presentation for class on October 11.