listening to repeating

The final installment in the “What does digital scholarship do?” HASTAC Scholars series at the University of Washington is scheduled for tomorrow on the Seattle campus.

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This coming week (from May 20th to the 23rd), I’ll be attending my third Computers and Writing conference, this year at Purdue University.  (The last two I attended were at Wayne State and UC-Davis.)

I’ll be involved in a few conference invents, including a Friday panel titled, “Tinkering with Rhetorical Expertise: Reappraising Functional Literacy,” with Derek Van Ittersum, Annette Vee, and Kory Lawson Ching.  Here’s a quick description of what we’ll be discussing:

This panel responds to efforts in the field to rearticulate functional literacy by turning to the trope of tinkering.  Rather than imagining tinkering as mending an imperfect text, we instead seek to reframe tinkering to focus on the experimental or clever solutions to technological and rhetorical questions.

I’m really looking forward to it, especially since I’ll be in most brill company.  During my portion of the panel, I’ll be speaking to the roles that code, prototyping, and making stuff might play in computers and comp.

On Sunday, with six other folks I’m also contributing to the conference’s final town hall, “Articulating New Configurations for Virtual Scholarship.”  Michael J. Salvo is moderating:

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Good news!  The next installment in the “What does digital scholarship do?” HASTAC Scholars series at the University of Washington is scheduled for this week.

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A piece, titled “Teaching and Learning through the Digital Humanities,” that I wrote for English Matters (the UW English Department’s newsletter) is now online.

Give it a gander.  There are also some print versions finding their way into the mailboxes of alumni.

A big thanks to Jen Gonyer-Donohue for being a fantastic editor and conversationalist.

I’m happy to announce that during the next academic year (2010-11), I’ll be designing and teaching courses in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (IAS) at the University of Washington, Bothell.

The first course I’m teaching, “Technologies of Expression: Sound Reproduction Studies,” is a 200-level course scheduled for Autumn 2010.  It’s part of the new Media and Communication Studies emphasis in IAS.  More below.

Course Description

Since the 1850s, sound reproduction technologies have changed over time.  As some were rendered obsolete, others became cutting edge.  In one sense, this course is an opportunity for students to trace the history of those technological shifts by attending to everything from the phonograph and magnetic tape to the turntable and the computer.  Yet in another sense, the course is a chance to explore how those technologies are culturally embedded.  For example, how have artists and writers integrated sound reproduction technologies into their work, and to what effects on other media, such as print?  Through advertisements and film, how were certain technologies marketed, to whom, and for what purposes?  And when, where, and for whom does a sound seem pleasant, a recording appear high fidelity, or an environment feel noisy?

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I’m happy to announce that my UW English colleague, Paige Morgan, and I recently finished the THATCamp PNW website, including a Call for Participants for the October 2010 event, which will be held on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus.

A big thanks to Julie Meloni for all of her help.

The call’s copied below, and you can visit the site for more info.  If you are interested in applying, then please note the deadline.  Thanks!

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