Review by Crystal VanKooten Panelists Matthew K. Gold, New York City College of Technology Kathie Gossett, Iowa State University Karl Stolley, Illinois Institute of Technology Liza K. Potts, Michigan State University William Hart-Davidson (respondent), Michigan State University The “Digital Humanities,” or “DH,” has lately become a buzz phrase throughout English departments and beyond—but what exactly does it mean to call scholarship in the humanities “digital”? Those who call themselves digital humanists are developing and using digital tools to do humanities work—they build; they collaborate with designers, librarians, and programmers outside of the discipline; they develop new methods and questions. But…
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Review by Brent Simoneaux Panelists David Blakesley, Clemson University Douglas Eyman, George Mason University David M. Rieder, North Carolina State University Sarah J. Arroyo, California State University Long Beach Ben McCorkle, The Ohio State University As people filtered into the room, Tom Cruise was manipulating information with the gesture of his hands. Standing in front of a large transparent screen, Cruise stretched his arms out in front of himself, moving his right hand closer to his left: the video zoomed in. He threw his arms to the left and the video disappeared off of the screen. Cruise’s body was at…
Review by Erin A. Frost Panelists Douglas Walls, University of Central Florida Stacey Pigg, University of Central Florida Kendall Leon, Purdue University This panel focused on methodologies for working in complex writing and research situations wherein participants are embodied or enculturated differently than researchers. Panelists discussed the creation and deployment of methodologies that reflect and facilitate diverse audiences’ epistemic practices, methodologies that resist the impulse to reduce or “clean up” the research process. Douglas Walls, University of Central Florida “‘Messy’ Research: How to Listen and See the Mess of Access Enacted” Douglas Walls argued that “access” is usually understood at…
Review by Jennifer Buckner Panelists Amanda Athon, Bowling Green State University Laurel Adams, Bowling Green State University G. Bret Bowers, Bowling Green State University Overview This session drew a room full of people to the ground floor of Tompkins, opening the conference for many attendees with a series of pedagogical, economic, and curricular questions about multimodality composition. Amanda Athon, Laurel Adams, and G. Bret Bowers, all from Bowling Green State University, examined the implications of designing and adopting multimodal approaches at the classroom, programmatic, and institutional levels. Their presentations complemented one another as they all sought to examine conditions that…