Democratizing Knowledge in the Digital Humanities
Right now and for the next few days, over at HASTAC.org, I’m co-facilitating a forum entitled, “Democratizing Knowledge in the Digital Humanities: Making Scholarship Public, Producing Public Scholarship.” Hope you can drop by and share a few words! Description’s below.
What does it mean to “democratize knowledge”? Can public scholarship radically redefine who finds, owns, and gives knowledge? What kinds of community partnerships continue to further both research and pedagogy, while also serving the needs and depth of the community?
In this year’s first HASTAC forum discussion, you are invited to consider the questions, risks, strategies and practices of how to foster community projects through the use of digital media.
Four graduate students are hosting the discussion; they are joined by members of Imagining America, the Simpson Center for the Humanities and the Obermann Graduate Institute for Public Engagement. Anyone is invited to register on hastac.org and participate in the forum!
HASTAC Scholar forum hosts:
Bridget Draxler
University of Iowa, Department of English
Jentery Sayers
University of Washington, PhD Candidate, Department of English
Society of Scholars Fellow, Simpson Center for the Humanities
Edmond Y. Chang
University of Washington, PhD Candidate, Department of English
Peter Likarish
University of Iowa, PhD student, Department of Computer Science
Obermann Senior Graduate Fellow 2010
(Wordle above is of John Perry Barlow’s “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.”)
