University of Oregon Digital Scholars

UODS Roundtable 4/1 1pm: UO graduate certificate in New Media

roberthilllong — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:00:59 +0000

Digital Scholars Roundtable:
UO Graduate Certificate in New Media
Friday April 1 1:00-2:30
McKenzie Collaboration Center
175 McKenzie

The worlds in which scholars now live and work are undergoing rapid and dramatic changes. In the humanities and social sciences, scholarship on new media and culture continues to proliferate, myriad efforts to digitize texts and artifacts are underway, and researchers across disciplines are learning how to develop and use digital tools. All these changes affect and alter how we do research, how we publish it, and how we think about the products of scholarly research; indeed, they alter what it means to know anything at all.

As our graduate students – MA and PhD alike – enter an ever more competitive job market, their experience and proficiency with new media will also contribute to their success as scholars and potential employees. UO Digital Scholars have been organizing an effort to create a graduate certificate program in new media and culture. We hope you (faculty, students, administrators) will join us for a roundtable discussion about the possibility of such a certificate program.

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Next UODS Works-in-Progress event: Friday 4/15 noon – 1:30
Ed Madison (SOJC)
Tween TV
Engaging 5th Graders in Critical Thinking
with Digital Video Production and Mobile Media

3/18/11 Day of Digital Humanities: sign on now

roberthilllong — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:56:16 +0000

The general invitation to participate in the 3^rd annual Day of Digital Humanities is out! Though the ‘official’ deadline to apply appears to be 3/14/11, you may join up to the last moment to add your voice, images, and critique to this international collaborative event.

Willing and interested in documenting what you do DH-wise that day? DDH is open to tweets, blogging, Flickr-streams, Flip-video, hyperlinks, Facebook feeds, etc. Get the details here: http://tapor.ualberta.ca/taporwiki/index.php/Day_in_the_Life_of_the_Digital_Humanities_2011. Worth paying special attention to their directions for WordPress tags (all of which will use the prefix DDH-).

UO Digital Scholars will announce a UO-specific Twitter #hashtag for DDH soon, so that we may aggregate UO-specific DDH tweets here.

Roland Kelts on Multipolar Japan, 3/10 4pm

roberthilllong — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:11:51 +0000

Pop Culture from a Multipolar Japan
Roland Kelts, Author and Journalist
Knight Library Browsing Room
March 10, 4:00 pm

Is there something more to the U.S.’s fascination with Japanese anime and manga? How are anime films and manga comics cultural channeling zones, opened by the horrors of war and disaster and animated by the desire to assemble a world of new looks, feelings and identities? Roland Kelts addresses the movement of Japanese culture into the West as sign and symptom of broader reanimations. With uncertainty now the norm, style, he argues, is trumping identity, explaining, in part, the success of Japanese pop and fashion, design and cuisine in the West. As Western mindsets encounter a rapid decline in longstanding binaries – good/evil, woman/man, black/white – Japan’s cultural narratives evolve in borderless, unstable worlds where characters transform, morality is multifaceted, and endings inconclusive. Animation allows an aesthetic freedom wherein these transformations and gender ambiguity may be given fuller play than in live action films. Nothing appears fixed. No surprise, perhaps, argues Kelts, coming from the only people to have suffered the immediate transformations of two atomic bombs and the instant denigration of their supreme polar father: the Japanese Emperor.

Roland Kelts is a half-Japanese American writer, editor and lecturer who divides his time between New York and Tokyo. He is the author of Japanamerica : How Japanese Pop Culture has Invaded the US and the forthcoming novel, Access. He has presented on contemporary Japanese culture worldwide and has taught courses in Japanese popular culture at numerous universities. His fiction and nonfiction appear in such publications as Zoetrope: All Story, Psychology Today, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Japan, The Millions, The Japan Times, Animation Magazine, Bookforum, and The Village Voice. He is the Editor in Chief of the Anime Masterpieces screening and discussion program, the commentator for National Public Radio’s series, “Pacific Rim Diary,” and the author of a weekly column for the Daily Yomiuri newspaper. His blog is: http://japanamerica.blogspot.com/

This event is presented by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and cosponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. For more info, please call 541-346-1521.

IT Connections interview with Gardner Campbell

roberthilllong — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:41:43 +0000

IT Connections writer Nate Gilles interviewed Gardner Campbell after his November talk at Knight Library. Link to that interview (published 2/28/11) here:

http://it.uoregon.edu/itconnections/gardner-campbell

Sorry, this link was broken (redundant URLs) for a few days!

Video Version of Digital Scholars Symposium

roberthilllong — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:46:54 +0000

http://quickstream.uoregon.edu/DIGSCHOL/digital_scholars_intro_hi.mp4

Introductory Remarks: Deb Carver, Dean of UO Libraries
Introduction of UO HASTAC Scholars: Andrew Bonamici, Associate UO Librarian
Keynote: “Modulated Subjects: MP3, Telephony, and the Imagined Auditor,” Jonathan Sterne

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http://quickstream.uoregon.edu/DIGSCHOL/digital_scholars_1_hi.mp4

Digital Studies at UO
• Moderator: Kate Mondloch, Art History
• Allison Carruth, English
• Alisa Freedman, East Asian Languages and Literatures
• Colin Koopman, Philosophy
• Bish Sen, Journalism

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http://quickstream.uoregon.edu/DIGSCHOL/digital_scholars_3_hi.mp4

Graduate Research in Digital Studies
• Moderator: Carol Stabile
• Ashley Gibson, Art History
• Bryce Peake, Anthropology
• Whitney Phillips, Folklore
• Staci Tucker, School of Journalism and Communications
• Mara Williams, School of Journalism and Communications

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http://quickstream.uoregon.edu/DIGSCHOL/digital_scholars_2_hi.mp4

UO Digital Projects: Introduction by Don Harris, Vice Provost, Information Services
• Moderator: Douglas Blandy, Arts & Administration
• ChinaVine: Doug Blandy and John Fenn, Arts & Administration
• Open Access journals at UO: JQ Johnson, UO Libraries
• Fembot: Carol Stabile, SOJC/English, and Karen Estlund, Digital Collections Coordinator, UO Libraries
• Nolli Map of Rome/Giuseppe Vasi’s Rome: James Tice, Architecture, and Erik Steiner, InfoGraphics

(Owing to illness Massimo Lollini was unable to present on the Oregon Petrarch Open Book project. Instead, JQ Johnson discussed OPOB’s forthcoming OA journal, Petrarch and Digital Humanism.)

Read a related UODS Symposium story in the Information Technology newsletter here: http://it.uoregon.edu/node/1518.

Many thanks to Lynnette Boone and Ward Biaggne of UO Libraries for their videography.

Faculty Roundtable on Digital Scholarship 1-28-11 (contact info and suggestions for further research)

Kate Mondloch — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:59:17 +0000

UODS Faculty Scholars Suggested Reading List

Symposium on Digital Scholarship 1/28/11, Fir Room

roberthilllong — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:11:52 +0000

Symposium on Digital Scholarship
January 28 2011, 9:00-5:00
Fir Room, Erb Memorial Union
twitter #uods2011

Opening Remarks: Deb Carver, Dean of University Libraries

2010-11 HASTAC Scholars: Andrew Bonamici, Associate University Librarian

Scholars: Ashley Gibson (MA, Art History); Bryce Peake (PhD, Anthropology) Whitney Phillips (PhD, English/Folklore); Anne Stewart (undergraduate, English/Japanese); Staci Tucker (MA, SOJC); Tomas Valladares (MA, Arts & Administration); Matt Villeneuve (undergraduate, History); Mara Williams (PhD, SOJC).
Mentors: Douglas Blandy, Arts & Administration; Alisa Freedman, East Asian Languages and Literatures; Kevin Hatfield, History; Kate Mondloch, Art History; Carol Stabile, SOJC/English.

Keynote Introduction: Scott Coltrane, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences

9:30-10:30:
“Modulated Subjects: MP3, Telephony, and the Imagined Auditor”
Jonathan Sterne

Professor of Art History and Communication at McGill University, Jonathan Sterne is the author of The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction and the forthcoming MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke University Press). He is currently a fellow of Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. http://sterneworks.org/

10:45-12:15 Digital Studies at UO

Moderator: Kate Mondloch, Art History
Allison Carruth, English
Alisa Freedman, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Colin Koopman, Philosophy
Bish Sen, Journalism
Kartz Ucci, Digital Arts

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch on your own in the EMU

Digital Scholars Advisory Board meeting, Fir Room

1:30-3:00 UO Digital Projects: Don Harris, Vice Provost, Information Services

Moderator: Douglas Blandy, Arts & Administration
ChinaVine: Doug Blandy and John Fenn, Arts & Administration
Oregon Petrarch Open Book: Massimo Lollini, Romance Languages
Fembot: Carol Stabile, SOJC/English, and Karen Estlund, Digital Collections, UO Libraries
Nolli Map of Rome/Giuseppe Vasi’s Rome: James Tice, Architecture, and Erik Steiner, InfoGraphics

3:15-4:45 Graduate Research in Digital Studies

Moderator: Carol Stabile
Ashley Gibson, Art History
Bryce Peake, Anthropology
Whitney Phillips, Folklore
Staci Tucker, School of Journalism and Communications
Mara Williams, School of Journalism and Communications

Sponsors:
Center for the Study of Women and Society * Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies * School of Architecture and Allied Arts * School of Journalism and Communications * UO Information Services * UO Libraries * UO Digital Scholars

Making digital learning environments / technologies accessible for all students?

Allison Carruth — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:16:10 +0000

I found this week’s story in the Chronicle of Higher Education on blind students who are advocating for improvements in the accessibility of digital websites, forums, and programs worth sharing with the Digital Scholars group. The story made me newly attentive to how I design course blogs, integrate multimedia learning modules, make use of PowerPoint and streaming video in class, and the list goes on. Perhaps we could put together a list of best practices as well as practical tips on this and related issues?

Article link

List of best and worst University websites for blind students

A Digital Scholar on the National Council on the Humanities (at last)

roberthilllong — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:17:35 +0000

In Obamaland, they get it: the humanities need and deserve a digital scholar at the highest national advisory level. Barack Obama has nominated Cathy N. Davidson for a position on the National Council on the Humanities, which advises the NEH (including, of course, the Office of Digital Humanities).

Wouldn’t it be great if they also got it in Universityland? in a humanities department in your immediate vicinity? Or are we going to need yet another area studies–i.e., Digital Studies, joining other Studies like Womens & Gender, Ethnic, Latin American, Environmental, Asian & Pacific et. al., exiting left from traditional departments in recent decades–to gather and focus a critical mass of digital scholars at UO and among peer institutions in the Pacific Northwest?

We’ll be having that conversation soon at UO. Stay tuned for news about the first UO Symposium on Digital Scholarship, January 28, 2011 in the Erb Memorial Union. We’ll have a keynote by Jonathan Sterne on Modulated Subjects: MP3, Telephony, and the Imagined Auditor. We’ll have panels on Digital Studies and current digital research projects at UO. We’ll consult a select group of graduate students about what they see in the near future of digital studies. And we’ll be introducing our 2010-2011 HASTAC Scholars and their mentors.

Davidson was a founder of HASTAC (= the Humanities, Arts, Sciences and Technology Advanced Collaboratory, a network of educators dedicated to learning in the digital age.) You can follow Davidson’s HASTAC blog here, http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson, and watch her discuss digital learning here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk_pntvDG2g. She is the Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/12/07/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts

Digital Humanities: Finally Fit to Print in NYT

roberthilllong — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:50:15 +0000

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/arts/17digital.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

Today the New York Times decided that digital humanities deserved a write-up. Appropriately, you can get the most from this wide-ranging article by Patricia Coen in its online incarnation, which is full of links to sources and resources named in the article. If you’re a latecomer to the notion of digital humanities, how it proposes to ‘dig into data’ differently than in a world of paper archives, and what fresh interpretations it proposes via data visualization and similar tools, Coen’s introductory survey is a good place to start.

But please read it online–and follow its links, and their subsequent links. That’s the point the media itself makes: in such “links” (a mechanistic term some of us dislike, preferring an expansive, living metaphor like tree / branch /root /twig /leaf /seed /fruit), the story itself branches out and roots around in the active reader’s intelligence long after the paper version of the article has been recycled.