Archive for November, 2016
11/7 Golumbia Prompt
In “Death of a Dispciple”, David Golumbia notes that among conversations relating to Digital Humanities, the question of “What is it?” is often heard, suggesting that many people still do not understand what it is, what it does, nor how it relates to literary studies, despite the 10 plus years since its development. This, once […]
McGann Response [LS]
The discussion of subjects and objects by McGann is highly relevant to the tools we as digital humanists use. The way we interact with the humanities is a constantly changing and evolving sphere, especially when it involves the use of technology. We use DH as McGann says “to publish and to peer-review online – to […]
Response to Gannon and Anonymous
As far as my response to either of these pieces and taking sides with one, I’m not totally convinced by either side, however, given the issue, I don’t know that I would necessarily expect to be. As such, I don’t necessarily, feel inclined to take a side and I believe this is because the idea of […]
My Knee Jerk Reaction to other Knee Jerk Reactions.
I agree with much of what Gannon said in his article. Anonymous’s post struck me as elitist and Luddite. In his screed Anonymous did have one valid concern, there might be to much pressure in academia to participate in social media for little or no professional payoff. A lot of that point is lost at […]
10/31 Response
After reading both articles by the anonymous writer and by Kevin Gannon, I feel it’s really difficult to take a side or to disagree with both opinions because I think both authors have a point here. The digital world was invented for us (humans) to use it and to benefit from it, and I don’t […]
Gannon and the Problem of Time
I’m glad you brought up the issue of time. I think this is one of the most important elements of this discussion of social media vs. traditional scholarship that we seem to be whizzing past. If I were to respond to Gannon’s post, I’d start by applauding his methodical approach and thorough entertaining of Anon’s […]
