Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Mar 17, 2010, 10:26 PM

This is brilliant, and even moving.  You have to watch it all to the end.  Finally some respect for the much-maligned "digital natives" (a term I do not like as it oversimplifies a generation as complex as any other).  Check this out, with thanks to Scholarly Kitchen.

Submitted by Viola.Lasmana on Jan 28, 2010, 10:21 PM

I was recently made aware of Andrea Lunsford (PI of 

Submitted by Anne Cong-Huyen on Sep 17, 2009, 08:45 PM

How do we develop the ever-changing "canon" of Digital Humanities? What are the must-reads for people entering this field or exploring different areas within it?

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Apr 27, 2009, 12:02 AM
For anyone in the Ann Arbor arear on May 15, here's the info for a Symposiumon "Bookishness:  The New Fate of Reading in a Digital Age."  The way this is framed and the cast of characters suggest this might even get beyond the really, really tiresome "it used to be wonderful, now it is dreadful" nostalgic binarism of pre- and post-digital reading habits.  (Just ask Hawthorne or, for that matter, Thomas Jefferson about how terrible reading habits are because of "new technologies" . . . or women, or the non-elite, or . . . )

Submitted by AnanthTS on Apr 22, 2009, 02:22 AM

Hello Everyone!

I'm one of Prof. Cathy Davidson's students from the course she was teaching this past semester. I'm not quite sure how well this blog post will be received, but on a technological forum such this, I felt that the following was appropriate. I should start first by say

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 22, 2009, 05:36 AM
From Richard Miller and Paul Hammond:  "For those interested in the discussion of how Web 2.0 technology is transforming the acts
of reading and writing, we invite you to check out "This is How We Dream" at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHvoBPjhsBA"

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Feb 08, 2008, 07:39 AM

One other reason humanists read their papers outloud (and probably the main one, affectively) is because one reason one becomes a humanist is one loves the sound of words, not just their content. This is an addendum to an earlier posting, "Why Humanists Read Their Papers": http://www.hastac.org/node/1204

 

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Dec 24, 2007, 02:28 PM
Time. That's what a leave is for. Sometimes it is for escaping media, new and old. And sometimes it is for escaping into media, new and old.

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jun 01, 2007, 03:28 PM
"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." --Ford Madox Ford

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Mar 18, 2007, 12:19 PM
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing media star and critic, offers wise insights into the different ways we read, on screen and off, in this reblog from Locus Magazine, March 2007.