Category Archives: Digital Humanities

A Review of Richard Lanham’s The Electronic Word

From Steve: The September 24th issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education is running it’s Information Technology column as a special pull out section focusing on Open Source issues in the university IT enviornment. They include a catalog of 18 … Continue reading →

Flogged by the blogs By Tony Blankley Sunday, September 19, 2004 http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/columnists/guests/ s_252066.html Once said British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead: “The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.” That observation came … Continue reading →

Alan Sokal Articles on the “Social Text” Affair

Review of Richard Lanham’s The Electronic Word by James O’Donnell

From an annoncement on HUMANIST: The Virtual Humanities Lab at Brown University plans to develop existing and new digital resources into an experimental model for collaborative scholarship and pedagogy. They are encoding Boccaccio’s Esposizioni sulla Commedia di Dante and portions … Continue reading →

TOC : Educause Review, September / October 2004 http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm045.asp Educational Blogging Stephen Downes The process of blogging – of reading onlin, engaging a community, and reflecting on it – is a process of bringing life into learning. http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0450.asp Going Nomadic: … Continue reading →

Learning Management System (LMS), open source http://www.sakaiproject.org/

Every move you make could be stored on a PLR Kevin Maney USA Today Posted 9/7/2004 8:51 PM; Updated 9/8/2004 12:03 AM http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kevinmaney/2004-09-07-plr_x.htm SAN JOSE, Calif. — Over the years, a number of tech prognosticators have said that someday many … Continue reading →

Arun Tripathi, overlong but good resource Community in the Digital Age Social scientists and philosophers argue the meaning of our evolving online lives. http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/book_reviews/v5i28_tripathi-barney.html