Digital Humanities for the Next Five Minutes
| Autor: | Rita Raley |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | differences. 25:26-45 |
| ISSN: | 1527-1986 1040-7391 |
| DOI: | 10.1215/10407391-2419991 |
| Popis: | rita raley Digital Humanities for the Next Five Minutes Alternatives are clearly needed, not merely objections. —Drucker I am convinced that the answers don’t lie in what we have been, but in what we could be. —Rockwell T here are numerous origin stories for the digital humanities as an institutional entity.1 What they do not yet include is the advertisement for a faculty position in the English department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, written by Alan Liu and committee in 2000 and quite clearly specifying the desire for candidates whose work is recognizably literary, to some degree practice-based, and informed by cultural criticism. It read: Assistant Professor, tenure track, digital humanities. We antici- pate making one appointment effective July 1, 2001. We seek can- didates who, while working in any literary field, have a major commitment to studying the historical and theoretical aspects of information technology and new media. Applicants should also be committed to some dimension of digital practice such as web authoring or multimedia. We anticipate that the person appointed would teach courses on such subjects as the culture and aesthet- ics of information, hypertext literature, past and present writing technologies, and the relationship between information society and gender, ethnicity, or global cultures (as well as courses on Volume 25, Number 1 doi 10.1215/10407391-2419991 © 2014 by Brown University and d i f f e r e n c e s : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies |
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