What is digital pedagogy?

And what is it doing in the digital humanities?

“Whatever else it might be then, the digital humanities today is about a scholarship (and a pedagogy) that is publicly visible in ways to which we are generally unaccustomed, a scholarship and a pedagogy that are bound up with infrastructure in ways that are deeper and more explicit than we are generally accustomed to, a scholarship and a pedagogy that are collaborative and depend on networks of people and that live an active 24/7 life online.”

M. Kirschenbaum, 2012

Two fundamental (and non-parenthetical) pointsThe first is that in order to make, remake, analyse, break, evaluate or interpret a digital resource (or engage in any of the other activities that are seen as ‘DH’) it is essential to understand the characteristics of the physical object that the digital is based on.

The other point is that the relationship between the digital and the physical should not be seen as oppositional or hierarchical, but integrative. By fostering an appreciation of both the strengths and weaknesses of the physical and digital media, we fall into some interesting questions and debates that stretch us outside our immediate frame of reference. For example, can we have DH without the Digital?

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dh101.humanities.ucla.edu

http://mith.umd.edu/engl668k/?page_id=141

http://www.jenterysayers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/150_syllabus.pdf

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/study/pgt/Modules-2015-16/7AAVINDH.aspx

Anyone who has rearranged classroom chairs from rows into a circle knows that the

physical space of the classroom shapes the dynamic interaction of learning. Now that

digital interfaces have untethered collaborative learning from the physical classroom, "the

classroom" is a heuristic that manifests itself differently than when it was a lecture based

distribution system for learning. Florian Cramer and Matthew Fuller remind us that

interface is a term "borrowed from chemistry, where it means ‘a surface forming a common

boundary of two bodies, spaces, phases’" (149). Digital interfaces offer humanists many new

"common boundaries" where traditional goals of humanist inquiry such as "the

interrogative as a condition of knowing" (Fyfe) can be practiced and realized through

innovative use of digital tools.¶

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Dear Matt -

It was lovely to see you in Austin this past week. As I mentioned to you at the digital pedagogy session, I will be guest teaching a class on digital pedagogy for Laura Wexler and Inderpal Grewal's Mellon Seminar next week and I'd like to ask the grad students to comment on a few of the keywords from your ongoing publication that are open for review this semester. We will be meeting on January 19th and I would like to walk through one example with them in class. I look forward to hearing from you!

Many thanks!

Carol

Carol Chiodo, Ph.D.Postdoctoral AssociateDigital Humanities LabYale University

carol.chiodo@yale.edu | @digitaldante

Dear Carol,

Thanks so much to you and your students for your interest in the project! I just wanted to note that we welcome feedback from readers at all levels -- peer reviewers should feel free to comment on subject-specific issues when they feel comfortable, but they can also respond to issues of organization, clarity, and style. Thanks so much to you and your students for contributing to this public review!

Best,

Matt

--Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D.Executive Officer, M.A. Program in Liberal StudiesAssociate Professor of English & Digital HumanitiesAdvisor to the Provost for Digital InitiativesThe Graduate Center, City University of New Yorkhttp://cuny.is/mkgold | @mkgold

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