Summer Camp for Digital Humanists - Chronicle.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 25 Mar 09
  

  Nele Noppe

  academia technology

  • Since it's clear enough that Wikipedia — and other sites based on reader-generated content — are too large and accessible to police themselves effectively, Liu argues that the responsibility for that policing should be adopted by the already existing structures of authority, including academe in particular.

  • Of course, Liu's presentation raises more questions than it answers: There are, after all, so many complications about the means by which credibility can be rated. We all know the peer-review system is not perfect.

    
    
    

    But Liu's vision of a more public, collaborative, and service-oriented role for professors has considerable appeal to me, and it charts some of the steps that must now be taken into this new world of online knowledge production.

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  • • Essentially, the digital humanities seem to be a collective effort to use information technology to improve our understanding of the human experience. The field can do that using traditional methods — now made considerably easier and more accessible — such as the bibliography, the concordance, and the authoritative edition aimed at the production of essays and monographs by individual scholars.

      
      
      

      But, more significantly, the digital humanities is also about the merger of scholarship from multiple disciplines with new tools for computation, visualization, and communications, often to create interactive projects that can appeal to people at varied levels of interest and expertise. The digital humanities have already begun to redefine what constitutes scholarship, authority, teaching, and merit in academe.

• 16 Jan 09
  

  Lisa Spiro

  dh2008

• 26 Jul 08
  

  Olivier Le Deuff

  Culture_of_Information

• 09 Jul 08
  

  Robin M. Ashford

  chronicle Seminary Internet secondlife academic libraries

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