06 April 2012
The rapidly growing archive of early modern texts online presents significant new opportunities and necessities for the ways in which we organize it. Addressing such challenges raises important questions for both skeptics and boosters: Are new methods of organization resulting in virtual but less reliable finding aids? Do pressures of modernization encourage resource-strapped organizers of [read on...]
16 February 2012
Mark Tebeau’s thoughtful post about open peer review addresses some of the terra paene incognita ahead for the Journal of the Digital Humanities in terms of open peer review. I say paene [=mostly] because several prominent projects (Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Planned Obsolescence, Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki’s Writing History in the Digital Age, the New Media issue [read on...]
04 November 2011
[A revised and improved version of this essay appears in the inaugural issues of Journal of the Digital Humanities.] This [original] post is a moderately revised version of a talk I gave as part of MITH’s Digital Dialogues series, titled “Criticism in the Digital Humanities.” The original audio and slides have been posted; this version [read on...]