Digital Humanities on Serendip

from leamirella's digital project, "Discovering Henrietta Lacks [1]"

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, Emerging Genres (Fall 2011) [2]

Re-thinking Genre as a Gift Economy [3]
Mawtyrs Going Digital [4]
Imagining a New Topography [5]
Thinking More About Collaboration [6]
Talking About Breaking! [7]
Present and Future, Writing and Thinking [8]
Making Room for Everyone? [9]

Literary Kinds: Thinking Through Genre, From Blogs to….? (Spring 2010) [3]

What the Internet, and Globalization, is Doing to our Intellectual Lives [10]
A Conversation with "Easily Distracted" [11]
A Conversation with "Serendip" [12]
A Conversation with "Geeky Mom" [13]
Teaching an Old Genre New Tricks [13]
Thinking Rhizomically [14]
Reporting in on our Rhizomic Discussion [15]
Student Reflections on the Digital Humanities
Bridging the Divide [16]
Intellectual Property & Where Do We Go From Here [17]
Internet and Intellectualism [18]
Rethinking Originality [19]
The Rare Defense of Wikipedia [20]
Manifest in Utopia [21]
More Chatter: Thoughts on the Digital Humanities [22] [23]

Gender, Information, Science and Technology ( [24]Spring 2011) [25]

Paneling Gender and Technology through Time and Space: Historically, Geographically…. [25]
Digital thinking and re-thinking [26]
Taking Information Seriously [27]
Head Games [28]
More Student Reflections on the Digital Humanities

Reflection on Gender, Information, Science and Technology [29]
Reading on the Internet [30]
A Brief Look at Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Exercise in Reading and Decoding [31]
From Circuits to Sentience: An Introduction to Digital History and Ethics [32]
Master of Science in Library and Information Science [33]
Character Building in the Digital Humanities [34]
Engaging the Digital Humanities [35]
Being a Digital Human [36]
Teaching the Digital Humanities [37]
An Advantage, or Disadvantage? [38]
Considering an Independent Major in Digital Humanities [39]
Teaching Film as Digital Humanities Scholars [40]
Defining Information [41]
Traditional Humanities and Digital Humanities in Conversation [42]

Bookmarks: Technologies of Writing and Reading, Ancient to Contemporary [43]

Open Faculty Discussion on Evolving Systems [44]

Guest Exhibitions: Art and Science on Serendip [47]

Roundtables for the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts

Sources beyond Serendip

Tri-Co Digital Humanities [50]
A Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0 [51]
A Digital Humanities Manifesto [52]
Beyond the Dissertation Monograph [53] (MLA Newsletter, Spring 2010)
Planned Obsolesence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy [54]
Stanford Humanities Laboratory: Crowds [55]
Lewis Hyde, Common as Air: Revolution, Art and Ownership [56]
Cathy Davidson, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention will Transform the Way We Live, Work and Learn [57]
Katherine Hayles, How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies