Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities

Not sure if this article qualifies as online learning, but when someone is this angry, it makes good reading:


https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/neoliberal-tools-archives-political-history-digital-humanities/

Makerspaces

Ah, those librarians, quietly joining, or perhaps fomenting, a revolution. 

A few links on Makerspaces:

http://oedb.org/ilibrarian/a-librarians-guide-to-makerspaces/

http://library-maker-culture.weebly.com/what-are-they.html

http://makered.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Makerspace-Playbook-Feb-2013.pdf

http://renovatedlearning.com/makerspace-resources/

So, are Makerspaces, sometimes referred to as Hackerspaces, f2f or online? Are they a hybrid of the two? Is one possible without the other?  

The Electronic Word

Published in 1993. To long ago to be pertinent to the digital world twenty some-odd years later? Or worth checking out? It's in the library, so at least a trip across campus. QA76.9.C66 L363 1994, Brownsville Stacks. Theory tends to be more durable than technology. So, possibilities.  

 

Richard A. Lanham

302 pages | 4 halftones, 2 line drawings | 6 x 9 | © 1993

The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression. Interactive, volatile, mixing word and image, the electronic word challenges our assumptions about the shape of culture itself.

A Language of Play

 Raul sent this to me the other day. Grading right now, so no time to pick up something at random to read. I'll put it here and come back to it later.

"A Language of Play: New Media’s Possibility Spaces." Joshua Daniel-Wariya. Computers and Composition 40 (2016) 32–47. The link below will take you to the abstract on Science Direct, which seems to think we're willing to pay 31 dollars for a journal article. Many university libraries carry Computers and Composition on a database. If not, inter-library loan is always an option. doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2016.03.011