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Broadening the Digital Humanities: The Vectors-IML NEH Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship
About In Media Res | In Media Res
In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship.
Each day, a different scholar will curate a 30-second to 3-minute video clip/visual image slideshow accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response.
We use the title "curator" because, like a curator in a museum, you are repurposing a media object that already exists and providing context through your commentary, which frames the object in a particular way.
The clip/comment combination are intended to both introduce the curator's work to the larger community of scholars (as well as non-academics who frequent the site) and, hopefully, encourage feedback/discussion from that community.
The Chronicle: 7/28/2006: Book 2.0
Mr. Wark, a professor of media and cultural studies at New School University, has put the draft of his latest book online in an experimental format inspired by academic blogs and the free-for-all spirit of Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Each paragraph of Mr. Wark's book has its own Web page, and next to each of those paragraphs is a box where anyone can comment — though readers are not permitted to alter the original text.
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Scholars like Mr. Wark, who are as comfortable firing off comments on blogs as they are pontificating at academic conferences, are beginning to question whether the printed book is the best format for advancing scholarship and communicating big ideas.
In tenure and promotion, of course, the book is still king — the whole academic enterprise often revolves around it. But several scholars are using digital means to challenge the current model of academic publishing.
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Robert Stein of ifbook on Media Commons
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Our universities put aside a siginifcant amount of money for library services of all types -- i.e. we don't expect libraries to be self-sustaining.so why do must expect that other nodes of intellectual discourse, such as university presses, or something like MediaCommons should be. i understand that universities are terribly strapped for funds, but in the end, perhaps we can make different decisions about what needs to be subsidized.
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i think the roles of AUTHOR(itative) and Reader are undergoing profound changes. there's no telling how long it will take, but in the end, my guess is that Authors will have a different set of skills than we associate with them today. for example they will function as very knowledgeable moderators of an ongoing discussion, they will function as leaders of expeditions in search of information, knowledge and wisdom, fundamentally, they will function as leaders of collective intellectual activity.
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Manifestos! a special issue of Kairos | Six Years and Counting…
This special issue of Kairos began at the Digital Media and Composition institute (DMAC 2007) at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. At the conclusion of the institute, we were coming off of an incredible twelve-day workshop with teachers and scholars who learned a long list of new technology, designed curricula for their writing programs at home, composed personal stories using a variety of media, and created complex, digitally born justifications for their administrators for the development of programs in multimodal composing. We were both struck by the passion of the institute’s participants and what their projects had to say about teaching, research, and their lives as academics. And we encouraged the participants—many of whose digital projects showed promise in scope to be scholarly webtexts—to submit their work to an online journal. Some said they would, but most said they weren’t ready, said they may never be ready, which we could see was not at all true. We were left, then, asking ourselves a number of questions:
* Is there a scholarly space where authors can enact the ideas they are so immediately passionate about in ways that don’t take the shape of traditional scholarship—even with respect to the different traditions of scholarship in a journal like Kairos?
* Is there a genre that would allow authors to enact these ideas but would not require the convention of scholarly composing that could potentially temper those immediate passions? And could this genre inspire the imagination while not imposing rules and forms of the genre on its composers?
* How might we invite scholars, especially those new to composing with a variety of digital media, to put forth their ideas while, at the same time, not overwhelm them with the prospects of a full-blown research project?
* Can we imagine a text, and ultimately, a forum for that text, that seeks sizeable response from its scholarly communities and has the ability to move an argument quickly to the forefront of a conversation?
* How ca
Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning
We regret to announce that we will no longer be publishing The IMEJ of Computer-Enhanced Learning. We began IMEJ as both an experiment in electronic publication and an attempt to foster good teaching that benefits from computer technology. In 1999, when we published our first issue, computer-enhanced learning was still relatively new to many teachers, and readers seemed eager to learn how others were using educational technology in their classrooms. Now, in 2006, computer-based instruction has become "standard practice" for many, and we've found it increasingly difficult to attract articles with novel approaches or rigorous assessment of these approaches. It is also the case that authors remain reluctant to submit their best work to an electronic journal because non-print journals are considered less valuable in many tenure and promotion systems. Still, we appreciate the many fine articles we did receive in our seven years of publication and thank these authors for their collaboration in adding multimedia supplements to their work.
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I suppose our simple conclusion is that interactive multimedia electronic journals are not easy to produce, but it seems a shame not to take advantage of the computer's communicative power with images, sound, and dynamic feedback.
The IMEJ of Future Scholarship: A Prototype for an Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal
Abstract: Although hundreds of journals have gone online in the past few years, most are simply a translation of text from paper to electronic form. Very few of them take advantage of the multimedia capabilities of the Web. Clearly Web technology is ready to support a new kind of publication, one which augments text with motion, sound, 3-D images, simulations, and tutorial or experimental interactivity. At the same time, interest in computer-assisted instruction is high, and a journal that can present ideas for technology-based education -- especially a journal that can do so dynamically and interactively -- would have a ready audience. Bringing together these converging trends, we propose the creation of The IMEJ of Computer-Enhanced Learning, an "interactive multimedia electronic journal" in the new mold. We describe our conception of the journal, outline our editorial and production approaches, and raise the difficult issues which arise in the publication of an IMEJ-type journal.
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The legitimacy of electronic
publications has not yet been established in the academic community,
and where there is no promise of credit toward tenure and promotion,
there is little motivation to publish. This is the Catch 22 of today's
electronic publication. No one will contribute high quality work (wasting
a publication that might see print in some more prestigious journal)
until someone submits high quality work. We remain confident, however,
that the current keen interest in computer-enhanced learning, the quality
of our production, a careful peer-review process, and the recognition
that multimedia journals are an idea whose time has come will continue
to attract articles to our publication over time.
Electronic Scholar, Higher Education, College, University, Publishing, Multimedia
As a service to the academic community, the Electronic Scholar is establishing an International Electronic Scholarship Review Board (IESRB). The IESRB is a group of accomplished scholars, practitioners, futurists, journalists, and new media experts whose purpose here is to provide a neutral third party review of works of electronic scholarship. Examples of the type of material that can be submitted for impartial review by the IESRB includes, but is not limited to; electronic courseware and curriculum materials, academic not personal Web sites and on-line magazines, research conducted using electronic tools such as "geographical information systems;" new educational media produced with tools such as digital video editors, streaming video servers, and multimedia authoring languages / systems; and virtual reality productions.
Although the International Electronic Scholarship Review Board was established and is supported by the Electronic Scholar, the Review Board is entirely autonomous with an elected "CEO." In addition, the IESRB sets its own policy and procedures and is responsible for its membership.
PodcastDirectory | Episode: Interview with Sharon Daniel, designer of Public Secrets Podcast
Public Secrets is a collection of testimonials from women inmates of California prisons. The site won a Webby, among the highest honors for Internet sites. KUSP's Rachel Anne Goodman Interviews Daniel about the project and the injustices it highlights.
CNI Spring 2008 Task Force Meeting: McPherson and Vectors
After offering a typology of the digital humanities, this presentation will explore several aspects of the international electronic journal, Vectors: its conception, its mandates, its infrastructure, and its innovative collaborative design process. Some questions to be considered include: What happens when scholarship looks and feels differently, requiring different modes of engagement from the reader/user? How does "argument" shift when scholarship goes fully networked and multimedia? How do you "experience" argument in a more immersive and sensory-rich space? Can scholarship show as well as tell? What do humanities scholars gain from working with database structures? What kind of new partnerships will be required among libraries, publishers, and scholars to foster future growth in this area?
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