The (Alleged) Death of Privacy
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.
Posts Tagged ‘HASTAC’
Story in Perspectives
A big thanks to Rebecca Collins for her story in the new issue of Perspectives, the UW’s College of Arts & Sciences newsletter.
Also a big thanks to Fiona Barnett (Women’s Studies, Duke) and Herb Blau (English and Comp Lit., UW) for their kind and supportive words.
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05 2010
Engaging the Networked Domestic
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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04 2010
Pink Noises: Analog Tara Visits the UW
I’m happy to announce that the next installment in the “What does digital scholarship do?” HASTAC Scholars series at the University of Washington is a go, and we are extremely fortunate to have Tara Rodgers (Analog Tara), from McGill University, joining us. She will facilitate a conversation related to her website and book, Pink Noises.
The conversation—”Pink Noises: Feminist Ethnographic and Historiographic Research on Audio Technologies and Cultures”—happens on Friday, April 16th, at 11 a.m., in Communications 202 (in the Simpson Center for the Humanities). It is open to the public.
Below is a description of the event, and here is the flier (in PNG). Looking forward!
02
04 2010
Digital Fabrication and the Database
Just another quick announcement for the next installment in the “What does digital scholarship do?” HASTAC Scholars series at the University of Washington:
On Monday, March 8th at 3:30 p.m, Meghan Trainor (DXARTS) will be facilitating our next meeting, on “Digital Fabrication and the Database: 3D Printing Metadata Models in Digital Research,” which is open to the public at the Simpson Center for the Humanities. Below is a description of what to expect, and here is the flier (in PNG). Looking forward!
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02 2010
Standards for Digital Scholarship
Yesterday, on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus, our local group of HASTAC scholars facilitated a conversation on “Evaluating Digital Scholarship: Expertise, Storage, Design.”
I was glad to see a wide array of folks (from various departments and programs) attend. Now, a day after the event, it strikes me that the question of where digital scholarship is stored (and how it’s stored) especially resonated with the group, as well as the question of what are the standards for digital scholarship.
And I know “standards” can be off-putting for some; nevertheless, there’s a lot to be learned about them from the work of Susan Leigh Star, Geoffrey Bowker, and others in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Put pithily, standards (e.g., metadata standards) aren’t static or inflexible. Of course, they change over time, and those of us who are engaged in digital scholarship might gain a lot from studying how, exactly, standards emerge and how they affect our respective fields, not to mention our everyday lives (for better or worse).
