HyperStudio - Digital Humanities at MIT » Thoughts http://hyperstudio.mit.edu MIT HyperStudio for Digital Humanities Sat, 18 May 2013 23:15:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 DH 2012, day two: What does it mean to be digitally engaged? http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/blog/thoughts/dh-2012-day-two-what-does-it-mean-to-be-digitally-engaged/ http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/blog/thoughts/dh-2012-day-two-what-does-it-mean-to-be-digitally-engaged/#comments Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:47:06 +0000 Ayse Gursoy http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/?p=3506 I sat in on several sessions today, the first day of conferences. In the morning I checked out the short paper session, and later I went to two long paper sessions. All of the talks were interesting, quick paced (only …

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]]> http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/blog/thoughts/models-for-the-future-humanities/feed/ 0 Digital Humanities vs. the digital humanist http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/blog/thoughts/digital-humanities-vs-the-digital-humanist/ http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/blog/thoughts/digital-humanities-vs-the-digital-humanist/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:24:23 +0000 Whitney Anne Trettien http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/?p=1191 What does it mean to be a Digital Humanist?

In a Dave Parry’s widely-circulated, post-MLA2009 blog post, tauntingly titled “Be Online or be Irrelevant,” Parry argued that social media should be front-and-center in Digital Humanities:

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]]> http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/blog/thoughts/this-week-cms-10th-anniversary-symposium/feed/ 0 What is Digital Humanities? http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/blog/blog-research/what-is-digital-humanities/ http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/blog/blog-research/what-is-digital-humanities/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:24:30 +0000 Whitney Anne Trettien http://slebinos.mit.edu:81/wp/?p=42 The coalescence of Digital Humanities as a field, a discipline, even (at some institutions) a degree-granting department has been a hot topic lately. Inevitably, a few questions float to the top: What will be our standards, and who will decide …

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]]> http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/blog/thoughts/collaboration-20/feed/ 0 Rethinking Interactivity in the Digital Archive http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/blog/thoughts/rethinking-interactivity-in-the-digital-archive/ http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/blog/thoughts/rethinking-interactivity-in-the-digital-archive/#comments Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:36:09 +0000 Whitney Anne Trettien http://slebinos.mit.edu:81/wp/?p=20 As I’ve discussed at length elsewhere, I’m currently researching moving parts in books for my thesis on seventeenth-century volvelles, or spinning paper discs used to generate language. Unfortunately, digital archives have not been helpful in either identifying or studying …

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