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Tuesday, 29th December 2009

The MLA and the Digital Humanities

From an Article by William Pannapacker:

Among other things, I learned how literature can be organized in ways that defamiliarize the traditional notions of genre and canon. I saw how scholars can draw upon the wisdom of crowds -- like Wikipedia -- to chart the vastness of the textual universe over large periods of time. I learned the possibilities of using Juxta, Zotero, and Prezi for my research and teaching.

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Digital literacy is going to be as essential as information literacy and critical thinking. And English departments can have an important role to play in fostering those new skills. Or -- if we overstress traditionalism and resist innovation because it's more comfortable -- we can cede that ground to other departments such as communications and computer science, making ourselves even less relevant and supportable than we presently are.

There are, of course, many pioneering digital humanists who have been laying the groundwork for the current transformation for decades. But the fact that so many digital humanists are young -- almost "digital natives" -- is not without consequences for a profession that, for the most part, has chosen to exclude them from the tenure-track, or prefer traditional modes of individualistic scholarly production to the collaborative possibilities opened up by the Internet.

Source: Chronicle of Higher Education


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