For our final class, we’ll discuss digital literacy and the future of higher education (with the help of Davidson and others and all in two hours :) Please choose an article to blog about from Digital Humanities Pedagogy (in the … Continue reading →

Useful material courtesy of Jim Ridolfo, University of Kentucky: “The spreadsheets for the last three seasons are available on rhetmap.org<http://rhetmap.org> with title descriptions, as is a very large OCR corpus of the entire JIL going back to the 60s. You’ll … Continue reading →

Come to Lexington next April! Please share with anyone who might be interested! Networked Publishing: Digital Writing in the Humanities A one day symposium April 25, 2015 The University of Kentucky Center Theater, Student Center 10 am – 5pm Free … Continue reading →

I hope everyone enjoyed Elizabeth Dillon’s visit.  I didn’t get a chance to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving–enjoy! When we return on, gulp, December 4th, we’ll tackle nothing less than the future of education! Please use this time to work … Continue reading →

Today Dr. Elizabeth Dillion, co-creator of the Early Caribbean Digital Archive, is coming to campus to talk about the archive and discuss her new book, New World Drama: Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849. In order to prepare for her visit, my class was asked to tool around the Early Caribbean Digital Archive and […]

Library B3 is in the basement not the honor’s common. We hope you can all make time in your busy calendar for the English department’s Fall Colloquium, featuring Dr. Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, a leading figure in digital humanities scholarship. Dr. … Continue reading →

Come chat with faculty outside the English department about our CommentPress book on Thursday 1:50-2:45 (right before class) in the Library, room B3 (in the honor’s common). Elizabeth Dillon will be joining us in class.  Please check out her digital … Continue reading →

But, I found another version of the Media Commons book Learning Through Digital Media for your reading pleasure: Learning Through Digital MediaFiled under: digital literary studies Tagged: digital book

Thought you might be interested in Augusta Rorhbach’s new book (I love the title):  Thinking Outside the BookFiled under: digital literary studies Tagged: digital literary studies

Here is the info for the event Library B3 is in the Honor’s Common–go through the cafeteria and through the double doors to the left (opposite the cafe counter).  B3 is in the back on the right… Hope to see … Continue reading →

Digital Media and CompositionFiled under: digital literary studies Tagged: workshop

And featuring one of our SJU English graduate students, Laura Lisabeth: Web Writing–Digital Book CommentPress version: Web Writing–CommentPress Please think about titles, book, section, essay (have a look at the table of contents for Web Writing for inspiration). Looking forward … Continue reading →

As I was doing research for my paper on the unfinished text, I came across an article written by Jesse Stommel called “The Digital Humanities is About Breaking Stuff.” In it, Stommel talks about how the Digital Humanities “breaks” apart literature, so to speak. To support his claim, he cites examples from a Digital Humanities […]

I had to watch this video for class and I couldn’t help but share it with you all! There are quite a few things that I love and find interesting about this video. The main one being that it uses clips from Disney movies (Disney is one of the strictest enforcers of copyright) in order to […]

Post to CommentPress–and comment on someone else’s work in your section (in addition or in lieu of a weekly create–your choice)… I also want to remind everyone that Nov 13th will be a dedicated session to writing and working on … Continue reading →

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/mar/31/paper-vs-digital-reading-debate-ebooks-tim-waterstone

Opinion piece based upon the debate on whether or not book are slowly dying.  The writer seems to think that that is just an appalling idea,

http://the-digital-reader.com/2014/02/18/infographic-top-ten-reasons-choosing-paper-book-ebook/#.VFGuuRZTaXE

Looking at the statistics as to why people prefer an actual physical book over an e-book. 

In lieu of a blog post (or in addition if you are feeling inspired).  Please put something up on CommentPress related to your contribution. We’re reading about the open access debates…Here is a link to Creative Commons. About Creative Commons … Continue reading →

I have exciting news, my Digital Humanities class is putting together a CommentPress book. We’ve been collaborating on the topic for the book for the past few weeks and finally narrowed it down to three subtopics: Digital Humanities and New Texts, Digital Humanities and Pop Culture, and Digital Humanities and Pedagogy. We split up the […]

I have a confession to make: I’ve never used Google Maps. Well, not “never.” I used it once, before I went to Paris, to see the University where I was dorming. However, besides that one experience, I had never used Google Maps. Until tonight! This week in class we will be learning about Google Maps […]

Do it in CommentPress.  I am setting up a chapters so that everyone has a space to work:) Check it out:  English 195’s Digital Book–Title TBD A few things to note: In order to add material/text to your page, you’ll … Continue reading →

We’ll be reading about mapping technologies and have a visit from Kathryn Shaughnessy, Library, to discuss and demonstrate google maps and more… Blog post–you can play around with google maps and/or explore a successful use of these technologies (like the … Continue reading →

FYI (thanks Nathalie!) CALL FOR PAPERS FOR VIRTUAL IDENTITIES AND SELF PROMOTION AT THE PCA/ACA 2015 National Conference New Orleans April 1-4 Virtual Identities and Self Promotion aims to examine, explore and critically engage with the issues surrounding creating a sense of self in online environments.   These … Continue reading →

So I played around with RapGenious and got a kick out of it.  I went through a couple of songs, but my favorite was anaconda by Nicki Minaj.  For a song that pretty much talks about women and their butts, people looked so far into the lyrics.  Meanwhile I thought whoever wrote the song for her was looking for words that rhymed, and not words that had very in depth meaning to who Troy is and why he is doing what he is doing in the song. 

My favorite is the beginning of the second verse, “Boy toy named Troy used to live in Detroit" and the description of it, "No surprise Nicki would have boy toys at hand, considering everyone wants her as an ass-et. This boy Troy was probably chosen because of his Detroit origin and its reputation for having bad-boys, either for sex or drugs, creating a sort of dangerous thrill for her.”  Meanwhile, I think she chose Troy because it rhymed with toy.

This tool is merely used for entertainment purposes.  I mean, I guess you could use it to try to get a little more insight into the meaning of the lyrics, but I don’t think it should be used to literal purposes at all.

In keeping with the collaboration theme in my last few posts, I decided to share with you an overview of my class discussion for Amy E. Earhart’s “Challenging Gaps: Redesigning Collaboration in the Digital Humanities.” There are three important points in her essay that I found most interesting and plan on sharing with the class […]

This week’s “weekly create” is to play around with a tool of our choice. Since I wasn’t too thrilled about Docuburst (see Docuburst is Bursting with Information?) I decided to play around with a tool that is much more comprehensible and helpful. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to introduce you to Voyant! Voyant is […]

For class this week I am in charge of leading a discussion on Amy E. Earhart’s essay “Challenging Gaps: Redesigning Collaboration in the Digital Humanities.” Because I found the piece to be enlightening in terms of digital humanities work, especially collaboration, I decided to share a brief summary of her work with you. Earhart begins […]

Media Commons/About-Welcome Art of Learning Comic MedievalismsFiled under: English 3880 English Studies in the Digital Age

Kenneth M. Price in his article, “Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What’s in a Name?” , uses an archive he collaboratively created as an example of how “archives” are much more than what that title or other titles (edition, project, database, archive, thematic research collection, etc.) suggest. His “archive,” the Walt Whitman Archive, […]

Since I made a small snafu on the syllabus (corrected in prior post), I thought I would send an agenda so everyone feels prepared: We’ll begin with Fitzpatrick and discussion of peer review vs. peer-to-peer review. Your explorations of databases, … Continue reading →

Here is the proper link (it is not attached to the Cather Archive).  The Cather Archive is worth a look, especially the tool TokenX… Kenneth Price, “Edition…What’s in a Name?”Filed under: digital literary studies Tagged: article, class meeting, digital editions, … Continue reading →