Category: Changing Perceptions of Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy
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Folie à plusieurs: Actual, Aspirational, and Abstracted Digital Scholarship
Jacob Heil (College of Wooster) For the last three years the libraries of the Ohio Five Colleges of Ohio have been collaborating under the auspices of a digital scholarship grant from the Mellon Foundation. At its core, the grant is designed to help faculty build digital pedagogical projects; to-date we have developed upwards of thirty…
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The Problem of the Transnational in Digital Scholarship
Emily McGinn (University of Georgia) My current research project looks at networks of transnational exchange in literary periodicals in the modernist era (1890-1930). Using data from the Modernist Journals Project as well as data from continental European and Latin American magazines, I am looking specifically for translators, those who are not necessarily reflected in the…
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Reproducing and Disrupting Phallogocentrism in Computer Coding Languages
Sandra Nelson (University of Pittsburgh) Stemming from the assumption that a computer program’s entire meaning is its function, the coding language used to compose it typically regarded as axiomatic and arhetorical. This approach is potentially problematic because it fails to address the ideological elements that are implicitly conveyed and reproduced through these languages. In this…