Strain & Van Hoosier-Cary – Eloquent Interfaces: Humanities-Based Analysis in the Age of Hypermedia

Strain, Ellen, and Gregory VanHoosier-Carey. “Eloquent Interfaces:  Humanities-Based Analysis in the Age of Hypermedia.” Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media. Eds. Hocks, Mary E. and Michelle R. Kendrick. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. 257-82. Print. The authors note that the first intersections of humanities work and computing took the form of computational analysis of lexical data; however, true “humanities-based... Read More

Self, Hawisher, & Berry – Sustaining Scholarly Efforts: The Challenge of New Media

Selfe, Cynthia, Gail Hawisher, and Patrick Berry. “Sustaining Scholarly Efforts: The Challenge of New Media.” Technological Ecologies and Sustainability. Eds. Selfe, Dickie, Danielle DeVoss and Heide McKee. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2009. The authors begin by acknowledging the collaborative, social nature of knowledge production in the contemporary, networked era (350); however, they also note that the English department is... Read More

Rice – Networks and New Media

Rice, Jeff. “Networks and New Media.” College English 69 2 (2006): 127-33. Print. Rice begins this essay by noting that “When we ask ‘What should college English be?’ I want to respond, ‘College English should be new media’” (127).  He states this (to some unpalatable) imperitive to draw attention to the role of the network in the Humanities.  As he notes, “Wehreas traditionally... Read More

Manovich – The Language of New Media (selections)

Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. 1st MIT Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. Print. Introduction M. claims that his goal in this work is to record the “research paradigm” or the history of computer media in its first decade of existence, before it “slips into invisibility” (8).  To do so he places the language of new media in a history of “modern and visual media cultures.”  In so doing... Read More

Hall – Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now

Hall, Gary. Digitize This Book! : The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now. University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Print. Introduction H. begins by acknowledging the neoliberal turn in the life of the university in the last twenty years (rising tuition rates, closure of non-economically viable departments, contingent labor, students as consumers, etc.) before turning to a central tension for the university: we don’t want the... Read More