Hayles’ Reading & Trask Prompt
What did reading mean before the internet? We’ve had the discussion before about “no turning back”. That still stands, but it’s not as if books have disappeared. I just want to emphasize this “close reading” still exists and in most cases we are still expected to do it, at least to a degree. I don’t want to […]
Hayles, Trask Response
Before the internet and when people were still interested in reading physical books, close reading was something that everybody did. Because the internet was created, books and news articles and other literary pieces were placed on the internet. Those stories often had their own physical copy, but because they were online, people could access them […]
Reading with computers, but what about writing?
After finishing Hayle’s piece, I found myself trying to conceptualize what the “new” kind of digital reading would look like. Per her anecdotal date (which coincides with my experience), it does seem that our attention spans have become shorter, even at the collegiate level. Therefore, my first thought is that wikis are the future of […]
Reading Process
A word cloud for reading before the internet might include words like “close reading,” “reading for fun,” “reading for information,” “scanning,” “skimming,” “book clubs,” and “time-consuming.” A word cloud for reading after the internet will include many of the same words, with the possible exception of “book clubs” and “time-consuming.” Book clubs are a dying […]
Unknown Territory
The humanities will always be changing. With that being said, I stick to what I have been saying these last few weeks regarding the definition and defying the digital humanities. If we continue to create definitions to what the digital humanities consist of, we will be limiting or arbitrarily creating self-defined limits on how we […]
Reading Ourselves Reading Digitally–Response to Trask
I think there’s real value in thinking through our conception of reading as an activity. It’s something we do so constantly, and something that, as Hayles shows, changes us in the process. Thinking back on previous conceptions of reading may help us realize we haven’t always read the same way we do now, and that […]
Hayles- How We Read Response
The Internet has changed how we read, and not in a good way. I am a person who believes the Internet is one of the inventions that has changed the world the most, but not all of it has been for the better. Prior to this age of digital reading, reading was done in blocks […]
Trask- Hayles Prompt
Hayles argues that websites like Wordle and the use of a hermetic word frequency counters are valuable tools to combatting the close-reading problem that seems so prevalent: Now it is time to rethink what reading is and how it works in the rich mixtures of words and images, sounds, and animations, graphics and letters that […]
EWL.org / Metadata Assignment: Revision Roundup
Thanks, first, for all of the hard work that you put into the EWL.org / Metadata assignment. I’m very pleased to report that, thanks to your collective efforst, the EdithWhartonsLibrary.org database now contains 516 searchable entries, which is another way of saying that we have nearly 1/5 of it done. I learned a lot from […]
Response to Cody’s prompt
Both Matthew and Brett Bobley use umbrella, or “umbrella nature” to describe DH in our reading this week, I like the inclusive nature of that metaphor; it brings everyone together under itself. I think the definition offered at the bottom of page 293 is closest to what I would identify as DH practically. “…DH as an […]
