Digital Humanities on Serendip

Original @ Washington University Libraries

The Digital Humanities constitute a paradigm shift in the field of literary studies, attending to practices and qualities in any medium, reaching beyond print in modes of inquiry, research, publication, and dissemination. In this "massive theoretical shift in textual studies," print is absorbed into new hybrid, multimodal communication practices: time-based forms (film, sound, animation), visual traditions (graphics, design), spatial practices (architecture, geography), and curatorial practices (museums, galleries).

In the digital humanities, the single most important issue is a matter of scale, which changes the amount of text, contexts, and contents of questions. Distance becomes a condition of knowledge, encouraging focus on units smaller (devices, themes, tropes) or larger (genres, systems) than the text  (many thanks to Katherine Hayles  for the key elements of this summary).

Bryn Mawr Courses in the Digital Humanities
Literary Kinds,: Thinking Through Genre, From Blogs to….? (Spring 2009)

• What the Internet, and Globalization, is Doing to our Intellectual Lives
• A Conversation with "Easily Distracted"
• A Conversation with "Serendip"
• A Conversation with "Geeky Mom"
• Teaching an Old Genre New Tricks
• Thinking Rhizomically
• Reporting in on our Rhizomic Discussion
• Webpapers about the Digital Humanities

• Student Reflections on the Digital Humanities
  Bridging the Divide
  Intellectual Property & Where Do We Go From Here
  Internet and Intellectualism
  Rethinking Originality
  The Rare Defense of Wikipedia
  Manifest in Utopia
  More Chatter: Thoughts on the Digital Humanities
  Legos, Rocks and Boulders

Gender, Information, Science and Technology (Spring 2011)

• Paneling Gender and Technology through Time and Space: Historically, Geographically….
• Digital thinking and re-thinking
• Taking Information Seriously
• Head Games

• More Student Reflections on the Digital Humanities

  Reflection on Gender, Information, Science and Technology
  Reading on the Internet
  A Brief Look at Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Exercise in Reading and Decoding
  From Circuits to Sentience: An Introduction to Digital History and Ethics
  Master of Science in Library and Information Science
  Character Building in the Digital Humanities
  Engaging the Digital Humanities
  Being a Digital Human
  Teaching the Digital Humanities
  An Advantage, or Disadvantage?
  Considering an Independent Major in Digital Humanities
  Teaching Film as Digital Humanities Scholars
  Defining Information
  Traditional Humanities and Digital Humanities in Conversation
  A Cyborg Reading of "A Cyborg Manifesto"

Bookmarks: Technologies of Writing and Reading, Ancient to Contemporary

Open Faculty Discussion on Evolving Systems

• From evolving systems to world literature and back again
• Deep Time, Deep Space, Deep Play: Writing (to) the Future

Guest Exhibitions: Art and Science on Serendip

Roundtables for the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts

• From Encoding, through Decoding, to Transformation
• "Accessing Wonderland": Seeing, Speaking and Writing from the Brain's Point of View

Sources beyond Serendip
Tri-Co Digital Humanities
A Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
A Digital Humanities Manifesto
Beyond the Dissertation Monograph (MLA Newsletter, Spring 2010)
Planned Obsolesence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
Stanford Humanities Laboratory: Crowds
Lewis Hyde, Common as Air: Revolution, Art and Ownership
Cathy Davidson, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention will Transform the Way We Live, Work and Learn
Katherine Hayles, How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies