Peer Review of Digital EditionsFiled under: digital literary studies Tagged: digital editions, digital literary studies

We’ll spend some time toward the end of our meeting on Thursday talking more about our project (title(s), anyone?)… What does digital publishing look like? Media Commons Also, a reminder that you should read Fitzpatrick’s piece on peer-to-peer review (linked … Continue reading →

Thanks to Anne Geller for bringing this to my attention.  I thought you might be interested: Digital Rhetoric CollaborativeFiled under: digital rhetoric Tagged: blog, digital literary studies, digital rhetoric, multimodality

It’s been something that has been around since the beginning of publishing texts and works of writing.  Simply by having a family member or friend read it over before submitting the work is peer review.  But the idea that the world is becoming the “peer[s]” in peer review, it kind of a crazy thought.

With site available like CommentPress and online reviews, the people are now able to contribute to the writing, explaining what they think about it before the work is even published.  So, sites like CommentPress are interesting, because the public can comment before the work is even finished.  This idea interests me because a lot of time, before work is finished you have a lot to swap around and stuff.  I know me personally, I like to throw all of my ideas out there then sort through them.  If that happened on a site which allowed for people to comment even though the work wasn’t finished, I would get so overwhelmed by everyone’s contributions I wouldn’t know what to do. 

On the other hand, I can see how such a medium could work for the better because you could take people’s comments into account while working on the piece of writing.  It’s a lot to think about, but like everything, it’s a tool and it all depends on how you use the tool in which way it could help in the long run.

Emily Dickinson Archives:

http://www.emilydickinson.org/

As I looked through all of the suggested archives for this week, I saved the Emily Dickinson one for last, rightfully so.  This was because it was extremely easy to navigate and make sense of the full purpose of the website and set of archives of her writings, her families writings, as well as what contributors were saying about the writings and more.  The website is truly a “cultural” place to go and explore the writings of Dickinson.  It contributes itself to scholarship in the sense that it is out there for anyone with internet access is able to use for their own knowledge and studies.  Again, it is a sort of community.  In a sense, the site and archives are a collaborative project because it has a “forum” section, where individuals who are interested, can write something up and send it in to be put onto the site.  This is a big deal in the interactions and development of a more developed insight into the studies of Emily Dickinson and her writings. 

The physical appearance of the site relates itself back to the times of Dickinson’s writing.  It is simple, and scholarly in that is doesn’t have loads of distracting ads and links all over the page.  However, the primary audience of the archive being scholars and students who are interested in the writings of Dickinson, forces the site to be perfect then.  There is no need for flowery aesthetics added to the site.

Overall, it is a healthy contribution to begin archiving “great works” and works of famous authors and writers.  This way, the information is there for the general public and does not exclude anyone.  It is a wonderful project in getting more people interested and involved in older great works of literature that some may not be interested in. 

Unfortunately, I was not able to make class today.  However, as I got into doing this week’s create, I was searching twitter for digital humanity contributors and came across @PhillyDHTweets which is a digital humanities group in the greater Philadelphia area.  They tweeted a link to a variety of DH tools for beginners.  Some of these tools we already have up on our course website, however a lot of them were very interesting.  The website itself has a variety of tutorials alongside the tools.  It was very helpful and insightful into the world of DH.

Here is the link to the tools site:

https://medium.com/dh-tools-for-beginners

I was just looking over the syllabus and see that I didn’t “assign” a weekly create for 10/9. Please pick a digital edition of your choosing and apply some or all of the questions on our syllabus (and/or create and … Continue reading →

This week’s assignment for my Digital Literary Studies class is to follow a few Digital Humanities tweeters on Twitter. (Who knew there were so many DH tweeters! I guess I should have guessed. You can tell I’m not too familiar with Twitter…!) I followed quite a few of them! There were so many tweeters to […]

Caroline Fuchs is leading a workshop tomorrow (Thur, Oct 2) at 12:15.  Check CTL website for location. Caroline will also be joining us to introduce Zotero.  I’m sure she will be happy to answer WordPress questions too. Remember to brainstorm … Continue reading →

Follow our class @dlssju Tweet and retweet your finds. See you Thursday!Filed under: English 3880 English Studies in the Digital Age

Caroline Fuchs will help us with Zotero. I’ve created a twitter hashtag for our class: #dls …so feel free to tweet and share thoughts, resources, links… Enjoy this beautiful day, and I look forward to seeing everyone Thursday!Filed under: class … Continue reading →

Everyone should be able to log in with his/her username and password (do you remember it?)… Here is an article by Kathleen Fitzpatrick on CommentPress.  Remember to brainstorm our book ideas for next week :) Article about CommentPressFiled under: English … Continue reading →

We meet again on October 2nd.  That afternoon Caroline Fuchs will introduce Zotero. We’ll also talk about CommentPress and brainstorm project ideas.   Please take this short break as an opportunity to read more deeply in our bibliography and explore … Continue reading →

I have never used Ngram before but I played around with it a lot.  I decided to look at popular contemporary literature that has been all the crave lately, like Twilight, and compare it to another popular trend, zombies.   With The Walking Dead premiering in another month or so, and the popularity of the show, i figured an increased interest in zombies must have been seen over the past few years.  Comparing this to “vampires,” in regards to popular book series like Twilight and television series like True Blood and The Vampire Diaries.

As I thought would happen, there has been an increased interest in both of the topics— especially over the past fifteen years or so. 

I then decided to compare this to the topic of “voodoo,” which I know is a popular practice and heightened interest of the past.  I anticipated that voodoo would have lower interest than the other two in the recent years, and the graph shows half of that— it’s in between the two.  However, interestingly, it is highest in popularity in regards to the three topics in the early 90’s and only dropped below vampires in 1992— Perhaps around when Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series had it’s debut. 

All in all, the three topics interested me since it is popular literature and entertainment, and seeing the link and differences that the topics have seen over time is also something very interesting to me as well. 

I used DocuBurst for the first time tonight…and I’m still deciding how I think it went. (As a side note, Docuburst is a free online tool that allows the user to visualize content of their own work or published work. The user can search a specific word in a maximum of two documents in order […]

Tonight I explored Google Ngram, but it wasn’t the first time I did so. I find Google Ngram to be a very interesting tool, a tool that I could spend quite a bit of time playing with. I find it fascinating to track a word, or words, in lots and lots (and lots!) of books […]

I’m going to ask for volunteers to share their weekly create and talk through the process of discovery, frustration, elation, confusion, or whatever the experience or result may be… Blogs are online (save a couple for which I don’t yet … Continue reading →

Scroll down to prior announcement to read more about the event.  All are invited!

See NYT article (toward the end) for discussion of DH…Humanities Departments Spared

Hey Kirschenbaum cites it too :) Wikipedia on DH

Participatory Culture and more!

What is a Dissertation? New Models, Methods, Mediums Scroll down for composition/pedagogy dissertations and bios.  I truly wish I could attend this event, but I’ll be watching the U.S. play Ecuador (soccer) in Hartford CT.

When I think about my relationship with the the Digital Humanities, a few things come to mind. I think about the way in which the internet and technology are not only changing the way we communicate, but the way we teach and the way we learn, too. I think about the vast knowledge I have […]

Digital humanities is becoming a way of life.  It makes things much more convenient at times, yet it challenges the norms that prior, us as humans were used to.  For instance, when getting our list of books for class, we instantly go online to see if we can order a used copy of the book for less money (positive). Whereas, sometimes they may only offer a digital copy, and for me personally, I like to have a book in hand so I can annotate and work with my book to come up with ideas and create insight.  By them only offering an e-book version, I now have to find the book using another search engine (negative).

As time continues to evolve, so does technologies and from there, digital humanities.  The humanities are moving with the time just as many other areas of study are (science, math, engineering, etc.) and with that, we are simply following with the waves of the time. 

The continuous change and development of technology is inevitable, and us as humans need to learn how to work with it to make life as productive as it can be.  Digital Humanities is a part of an evolution of culture and technology and will continue to be for as long as technology exists.

Last semester I look an undergraduate class “Literary Studies in the Digital Age” with Dr. Travis.  This semester I have officially begun my studies for my Master’s degree and decided to take her graduate level of the course titled “Digital Literary Studies.”  It has the same concept but  will be much more in depth compared to last semesters course.  I am looking forward to it and getting back into the “Weekly Creates.”

Just in case you haven’t found it: Humanities 2.0

Here is some information about an online course being offered starting Friday.  There is some cost involved, but it may be worth the small investment (you can join without certification at a reduced rate) if you think you may want … Continue reading →

On interdisciplinary/trans-disciplinary computational thinking: Academic Lecture, Professor Joan Peckham “No Boundary Computational Thinking”

Here is a link to the Digital Literary Studies anthology (read intro for next time).  On the syllabus it is called Literary Studies in the Digital Age (intro):  Reading for next week Here is a link–I hope it works I had … Continue reading →

I believe we are scheduled to meet in SJH 315.  We will actually be meeting in the English department conference room  Please look over the syllabus and website before class.  I’m looking forward to meeting everyone.   posts to check … Continue reading →