scholarly communication in the digital humanities
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Scholarly Communication in the Digital Humanities . Spencer D. C. Keralis Director for Digital Scholarship, Research Associate Professor Digital Scholarship Co-Operative University of North Texas @ hauntologist [email protected]. Consider the Radarange. ELECTRONICS AGAIN - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
SPENCER D. C. KERALIS
D I R E C T O R F O R D I G I TA L S C H O L A R S H I P, R E S E A R C H A S S O C I AT E P R O F E S S O R
DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP CO -OPERATIVEUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
@ H A U N T O L O G I S TS P E N C E R . K E R A L I S @ U N T. E D U
Scholarly Communication in the Digital Humanities
Consider the RadarangeELECTRONICS AGAIN
Broadcasting, Telecasting (Archive: 1945-1957)31. 16 (Oct 21, 1946): 198
Consider the RadarangeRADIATION LEAK LAID TO 6 HOSPITAL OVENS
Special to The New York Times. New York Times (1923-Current file); May 24, 1969; ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2009) with Index (1851-1993) pg. 33
The 1950’sLaura Shapiro. Something From the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America. (New York: Viking, 2004), xviii-xix
[After] World War II … the food industry [took] aim at home cooking per se, rapturously envisioning a day when all contact between the cook and the raw makings of dinner would be obsolete.”
The 2010’sFast forward and switch fields…
…the Digital Humanities take aim at literary study per se, rapturously envisioning a day when all contact between the scholar and the text would be obsolete.
Boom.
The Mark-21 Nuclear Bomb, 1955
Show Me the Money
“institutional support for digital humanities by administrators, foundations, and legislators can work to conceal or compensate for reduced support given to the traditional humanities, and as such can contribute to the undermining of the liberal arts in higher education.”
Richard Grusin“The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities –
Part 2”http://www.c21uwm.com/2013/01/09/dark-side-of-the-digital-humanities-part-2/
The Dark Side of DH
Digital Humanities is: insufficiently diverse. suffers from “techno-utopianism” and “claims to be the
solution for every problem.” “a blind and vapid embrace of the digital” insists upon coding and gamification to the exclusion of more
humanistic practices. detache[d] from the rest of the humanities (regarding itself
as not just “the next big thing,” but “the only thing”). complicit with the neoliberal transformation of higher
education; it “capitulates to bureaucratic and technocratic logic”;
support[ed by] comes administrators who see DH’ers as successful fundraisers and allies in the “creative destruction” of humanities education.
On ‘The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities’ January 5, 2013, 11:14 am, Chronicle of Higher EducationBy William Pannapacker
The Challenges
Monograph remains the gold standard for Humanities Scholarship
Suspicion of Open AccessPrimacy of Citation Analysis for
understanding impactCollaboration Devalued/DiscouragedHow to Support Unfunded ProjectsThe Humanities Payoff?
Make it work.
http://academictimgunn.tumblr.com/
Interventions
Outreach for Repository ServicesEvangelize Open Access
e-Journal Support Citations and Readership Larger “Publics” for Scholarship
Evangelize Altmetrics Networks of Scholarship Influence and Impact beyond Citation
Collaboration on DH Projects beyond mass digitization & special collections
The Domain of Information Sciences:
MetadataControlled VocabulariesLong-term preservationInfrastructureDiscoverabilityAccessibilityReuseSustainabilityCentrality/Neutrality
Digital Humanatees
http://manateestrategy.tumblr.com/