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1. New Media in the Academy: Labor and the Production of Knowledge in Scholarly Multimedia

   Despite a general interest in exploring the possibilities of multimedia and web-based research, the humanities profession has been slow to accept digital scholarship as a valid form of intellectual endeavor. Questions about labor, peer-review, and co-authorship often arise in academic departments’ attempts to evaluate digital research in the tenure and promotion process. In this essay, we argue that these tensions stem from a general misunderstanding of the kinds of "work" that goes into producing scholarship in multimedia form. Multimedia work, we suggest, places scholars in an extended network that combines minds, bodies, machines, and institutional practices, and lays bare the fiction that scholars are disembodied intellectuals who labor only with the mind. We argue that while traditional ideas of what "counts" as scholarship continue to privilege content over form, intellectual labor over physical labor, and print over digital media, new media’s functional (and in some cases even biological) difference from old media contributes to a double erasure, for scholars working in multimedia, of both their intellectual contributions and their material labor.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 29.09.2011 - 08:31

2. Understanding Knowledge Work

   Alan Liu responds to reviews of The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information by N. Katherine Hayles and Johanna Drucker, both of whom admire Liu's book but believe that it exaggerates the influence of corporate knowledge work while providing an inadequate response to its destructive ahistoricism. Liu proposes that the digital age needs "new-media platforms of humanistic instruction" to supplement critical and theoretical humanistic approaches to help students understand how the human concerns and impulses that give rise to new media productions relate to knoweldge work.

    

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 19.10.2011 - 14:38

3. Humanities Games and the Market in Digital Futures

   Humanities Games and the Market in Digital Futures

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 20.10.2011 - 08:50

4. Getting Started in the Digital Humanities Panel Discussion (ELMCIP)

   A roundtable discussion featuring seven experts from large digital humanities projects. Panelists were given three minutes to explain, briefly, their current digital humanities project before the moderator asked a series of questions that included variations of the following: How did you move "to the next level" in DH? What challenges have you faced doing DH work? How have you funded your work? The bulk of the discussion was devoted to questions from the audience. 

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 17.01.2012 - 11:20

5. Radiophonic Laura: Voice, Song, Information, Intelligence

   Web essay with video content on the various permutations of _Laura_ story through multiple media.  _Laura_ is discussed as a parable of information exchange, with a focus on how sound is transmitted through and across multiple film texts, repetition and desire, noise and the cosmic.

   Joe Milutis - 20.01.2012 - 22:17

6. F2F

   F2F might seem retro to you. It struck me as very 1991. The idea of a hypertext that is heavy on the text seemed to lose its charm as soon as images, moving animation, video and sound could also be included. One of the downsides to the speed of the evolution of hypertext, is that whole possible genres and subgenres were not given the chance to grow. What happened to the web-film-essay? Well, it never happened. Sure, there are some text-book-market CD-ROMs and the like that do something similar, but they use video more as mere illustration. What about a film essay that would incorporate the mystery the moving image rather than try to compete with it? What about utilizing images and sounds that potentially resist the text? What about playing with the clips like a video artist would?

   Joe Milutis - 20.01.2012 - 22:40

7. R, Adieu

   A harrowing alphabetical excursion into the world of the rolled r. Milutis tracks—and, through sounds and videos, shows—the primal violence and utopian trill of 'the most rrresilient of locutions' in sound poetry, regional dialects, and televisual affects, from Kurt Schwitters to Georges Perec to Rodgers and Hart to Charles Bernstein.

   Joe Milutis - 22.01.2012 - 21:15

8. The Quiddities

   "Presenting the results of a data search sure to strain the capacities of any computer, Milutis proceeds to give an exceedingly close reading of what he modestly calls 'the fundamental core of all literature.'"

   Joe Milutis - 23.01.2012 - 03:32

9. Medienumbrüche

   Die Schriftenreihe des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschungskollegs »Medienumbrüche« setzt sich mit den Voraussetzungen und Strukturen der beiden prägenden Medienumbrüche unserer Zeit auseinander, die sich als Umbruch zu den »analogen« Medien zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts und als Umbruch zu den »digitalen« Medien im Übergang zum 21. Jahrhundert bestimmen lassen.
   Das Forschungskolleg untersucht Medienumbrüche in ihrer Bedeutung für die Entstehung und Veränderung von Medienkulturen und für die Entwicklung der Medienästhetik. Dementsprechend werden »Medienumbrüche« in dieser Schriftenreihe als umfassende, diskontinuierliche, strukturelle Veränderungen innerhalb der Mediengeschichte verstanden. Die Entwicklungsrichtung eines solchen Umbruchs ist unbestimmt. Er kann technologische Faktoren und anthropologische Dimensionen der Mediengeschichte ebenso einschließen wie tradierte gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Institutionen oder ästhetische Traditionen.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 13.02.2012 - 14:39

10. How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis

    How do we think? N. Katherine Hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. As the age of print passes and new technologies appear every day, this proposition has become far more complicated, particularly for the traditionally print-based disciplines in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. With a rift growing between digital scholarship and its print-based counterpart, Hayles argues for contemporary technogenesis-the belief that humans and technics are coevolving-and advocates for what she calls comparative media studies, a new approach to locating digital work within print traditions and vice versa. mines the evolution of the field from the traditional humanities and how the digital humanities are changing academic scholarship, research, teaching, and publication. She goes on to depict the neurological consequences of working in digital media, where skimming and scanning, or "hyper reading," and analysis through machine algorithms are forms of reading as valid as close reading once was.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 17.02.2012 - 09:33

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