Critical Code Studies
At the recent MLA 2011, one of the largest conferences for humanities in the US, the question arose: read more
View ArticleCode Critiques
Welcome to the Code Critique forum. Here we are focusing on reading and critiquing specific code snippets. To get the discussion started, your hosts have chosen 5 programs to analyze, ranging across...
View Article[Announcement] HASTAC Scholars - Modeling a New Collective
HASTAC Scholars will be participating in a New Collectives panel at DML2011: Designing Learning Futures.read more
View ArticleLiving Mediations: Biology, Technology and Art
First exhibited in Tokyo from 1995-1997, German anatomist Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibits have since been shown in over 50 venues throughout Asia, Europe, and North America, making them among...
View ArticlePixels and Print: Redefining Academic Publishing & Scholarly Communication
Today marks the second day of the MLA 2012 Convention, and one of the largest events happened yesterday morning: a 3 hour workshop called Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion: A Workshop...
View ArticlePress Start to Continue: Toward a New Video Game Studies
In November 2008, HASTAC Scholars featured a forum on gaming called “Participatory Play: Digital Games From Spacewar! to Virtual Peace.” Given the interdisciplinary nature of video game studies, that...
View ArticlePedagogical Ethics in a Digital Age
What are your ethics for teaching in a digital age?read more
View ArticleThe Future of Museums
The topic of museums and technology is a timely one - as museums of all sizes and types rush to embrace technologies - and also a challenging one, as these institutions attempt to embrace a...
View ArticleThe Future of Higher Education
As the opening forum for our 5th year of this program, we’d like to ask you, our most innovative and engaging Scholars:What would you change in higher education?How would you rethink graduate...
View ArticleAlan Turing: The First Digital Humanist?
Alan Turing, an unsung hero, mathematician, code breaker, and first generation computer scientist. Turing is most known for his work helping to break the German Enigma codes during World War I and his...
View ArticleVisualizing Geography: Maps, Place, and Pedagogy
Mapping technology has recently been the focus of much critical attention as evidenced by numerous efforts to develop new ways of visualizing physical and textual spaces. The proliferation of tools...
View ArticleDis/Ability: Moving Beyond Access in the Academy
Often, accessibility is—as Jay Dolmage and John Slatin have argued—a retrofit or add on. That is, it is often not an integral part of our theoretical conversations, classroom spaces, and technologies....
View ArticleVisualization Across Disciplines
In recent years, visualization has become an all-purpose technique for communicating and exploring data within the humanities. There are a wide availability of tools offering different points of entry...
View Article“Amplified Marginalia”: Social Reading, Listening, and Writing
“The text is a tissue of citations, resulting from the thousand sources of culture.”- Roland Barthesread more
View ArticleHASTAC Scholars Unconference
Our annual HASTAC conference is coming up from May 27-30th at Michigan State University.On May 27th, the HASTAC Scholars have an unconference for informal workshops, informations sharing and...
View ArticleColonial Legacies, Postcolonial Realities and Decolonial Futures of Digital...
Humanity has long been defined in ways that support colonialism, centering white, western, European subjects, and excluding colonized peoples. Important to such colonial social projects, too, is the...
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