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Participatory Learning and the New Humanities: An Interview with Cathy Davidson | Academic Commons
hrough games, wikis, blogs, virtual environments, social network sites, cell phones, mobile devices, and other digital platforms, learners can participate in virtual communities where they share ideas, comment upon one another's projects, and plan, design, advance, implement, or simply discuss their goals and ideas together. Participatory learners come together to aggregate their ideas and experiences in a way that makes the whole ultimately greater than the sum of the parts
Digital Humanities Computer Science Colloquium
The theme of the third Chicago DHCS Colloquium is “Making Sense” – an exploration of how meaning is created and apprehended at the transition of the digital and the analog.
Ithaka :: Publications
Topics include shift from print to digital, sustainability models for online publication, and scholarly communication.
CSHE - Future of Scholarly Communication
Interim Report: Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication.
Seedmagazine.com | The Seed State of Science 2008 | Craig Venter on What's Holding Science Back
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
Learning to use a "computer" of this scale may be challenging. But the opportunity is great: The new availability of huge amounts of data, along with the statistical tools to crunch these numbers, offers a whole new way of understanding the world. Correlation supersedes causation, and science can advance even without coherent models, unified theories, or really any mechanistic explanation at all.
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Sixty years ago, digital computers made information readable. Twenty years ago, the Internet made it reachable. Ten years ago, the first search engine crawlers made it a single database. Now Google and like-minded companies are sifting through the most measured age in history, treating this massive corpus as a laboratory of the human condition.
CSHE - Draft Interim Report: Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication
"Abstract: The Center for Studies in Higher Education, with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is conducting research to understand the needs and desires of faculty for in-progress scholarly communication (i.e., forms of communication employed as research is being executed) as well as archival publication. In the interest of developing a deeper understanding of how and why scholars do what they do to advance their fields as well as their careers, our approach focuses on fine-grained analyses of faculty values and behaviors throughout the scholarly communication lifecycle, including sharing, collaborating, publishing, and engaging with the public. Well into our second year, we have posted a draft interim report describing some of our early results and impressions based on the responses of more than 150 interviewees in the fields of astrophysics, archaeology, biology, economics, history, music, and political science.
Our work to date has confirmed the important impact of disciplinary culture and tradition on many scholarly communication habits. These traditions may override the perceived “opportunities” afforded by new technologies, including those falling into the Web 2.0 category. As we have listened to our diverse informants, as well as followed closely the prognostications about the likely future of scholarly communication, we note that it is absolutely imperative to be precise about terms. That includes being clear about what is meant by “open access” publishing (i.e., using preprint or postprint servers for work published in prestigious outlets, versus publishing in new, untested open access journals, or the more casual individual posting of working papers, blogs, and other non-peer-reviewed work). Our work suggests that enthusiasm for technology development and adoption should not be conflated with the hard reality of tenure and promotion requirements (including the needs and goals of final archival publication) in highly competitive professional environments."
HPCwire: The Next Big Thing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science Computing: 18thConnect
"18thConnect: Digitizing the Canon\n\nFor the humanities scholar who may have only recently mastered library and archival finding aids beyond the archaic card catalog, the possibility of retrieving source materials at the flash of a keystroke (well maybe a few...) is very heady stuff. Very. But even as scholars rub their hands together and salivate at the possibilities that advanced computer technologies bring to the archival table, questions of open access and issues of intellectual ownership and copyright infringement have emerged as fast as the world's knowlege repositories (and Google) are digitizing texts. Accessibility is particularly important to historians, for example, where research in primary sources can often only be accomplished with an expensive plane ticket, extended sabbatical leave, and a pocketful of increasingly dwindling research monies. University humanities, arts and social science departments often suffer from second-string status when it comes to federal funding, alumni gifting and corporate grants, compared to those received by the "hard" science community. The global financial crisis will of course only make matters worse. The ability, then, to tap into the world's archives from your desktop becomes not only very appealing but even -- dare we say it -- necessary.\n\nFor Laura Mandell and Robert Markley, professors of English at Miami University-Ohio (MU) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), respectively, the possibilities of internet-enabled research"
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Markley: Another way of looking at the problem of innovation is to recognize that most scholars in the humanities lack the means to collaborate effectively in database design, in creating sophisticated filters, in communicating effectively to people working in computer science and digital media what it is that they want or need. As Laura suggests, the concept of what counts as data in the humanities is more or less up for grabs, and 18thConnect is designed to foster multiples modes of collaboration and interdisciplinary scholarship. The humanities and digital media already are evolving in complex feedback loops, and in some very real ways the modes of analysis that developed in the twentieth century are now going being changed in open-ended and more or less a-predictable ways.
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