Sunday, November 23, 2008

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Lisa Spiro, of the Digital Media Center at Rice University, runs a fantastically useful blog on digital scholarship in the humanities. Here is her schematic on the current state of the field:



Spiro's blog also features a great post on video projects, in which she observes, "Web video isn’t just about dogs attacking toilets and guys skiing down escalators . . . it also can be a powerful mode for disseminating ideas," and then discusses the remarkable digital scholarship videos of Michael Wesch a cultural anthropologist at Kansas State University. Here are some compelling examples of Wesch's work:




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