Rethinking Digital Literacies

Submitted by ambuck on Nov 24, 2009, 05:06 PM

Is digital literacy the best term through which to describe the ways that individuals make meaning through a variety of multimodal texts? Are there better alternatives?

Digital Humanities and DH Centers

Submitted by sbrennan on Nov 17, 2009, 10:04 AM

To continue the ongoing discussion about what "digital humanities" means, I wanted to share this CLIR Survey of Digital Humanities Centers http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub143abst.html report with everyone.

In the process of identifying and surveying DHC's, author Diane Zorich had to create some working definitions of "digital humanities" and the work done at "digital humanities centers." I think her framework is a good place to start and adds to this discussion, especially in thinking that digital humanities can be both "prosaic" and "transformative." This work needn't be both, although it certainly can be.

What are we doing, anyway?

Submitted by Bola C King on Nov 13, 2009, 02:53 AM

I'd like to revisit Amanda Visconti's blog post about the must-have technical skills for a di