Hacking the academy : new approaches to scholarship and teaching from digital humanities / edited by Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kohen, Daniyel Y.

Contributor:

Cohen, Daniel J. (Daniel Jared), 1968- editor.

Scheinfeldt, Tom, editor.

Series:

Digital humanities (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

Digital humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in learning and scholarship--Technological innovations.

Communication in learning and scholarship.

Scholarly electronic publishing.

Digital humanities.

Humanities--Digital libraries.

Humanities.

Humanities--Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour); digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2013.

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2013]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

Can an algorithm edit a journal? Can a library exist without books? Can students build and manage their own learning management platforms? Can a conference be held without a program? Can Twitter replace a scholarly society? As recently as the mid-2000s, questions like these would have been unthinkable. But today serious scholars are asking whether the institutions of the academy as they have existed for decades, even centuries, aren't becoming obsolete. Every aspect of scholarly infrastructure is being questioned, and even more importantly, being hacked. Sympathetic scholars of traditionally disparate disciplines are canceling their association memberships and building their own networks on Facebook and Twitter. Journals are being compiled automatically from self-published blog posts. Newly minted Ph. D.s are forgoing the tenure track for alternative academic careers that blur the lines between research, teaching, and service. Graduate students are looking beyond the categories of the traditional CV and building expansive professional identities and popular followings through social media. Educational technologists are "punking" established technology vendors by rolling out their own open source infrastructure. Hacking the Academy will both explore and contribute to ongoing efforts to rebuild scholarly infrastructure for a new millennium.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introductions

Preface

Why "Hacking"?

Hacking Scholarship

Getting Yourself Out of the Business in Five Easy Steps

Burn the Boats/Books

Reinventing the Academic Journal

Reading and Writing

Voices: Blogging

The Crisis of Audience and the Open-Access Solution

Open-Access Publishing

Open-Access and Scholarly Values: A Conversation

Voices: Sharing One's Research

Making Digital Scholarship Count

Theory, Method, and Digital Humanities

Hacking Teaching

Dear Students

Lectures Are Bullshit

From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able

Voices: Classroom Engagement

Digital Literacy and the Undergraduate Curriculum

What's Wrong with Writing Essays: A Conversation

Assessment versus Innovation

A Personal Cyberinfrastructure

Voices: Learning Management Systems

Hacking the Dissertation

How to Read a Book in One Hour

Hacking Institutions

The Absent Presence: A Conversation

Uninvited Guests: Twitter at Invitation-Only Events

Unconferences

Voices: Twitter at Conferences

The Entropic Library

The Wrong Business for Libraries

Reimagining Academic Archives

Interdisciplinary Centers and Spaces

Take an Elective

Voices: Interdisciplinarity

Cautions

An Open Letter to the Forces of Change

The Trouble with Digital Culture

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

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ISBN:

0-472-90025-0

0-472-07198-X

OCLC:

1200038395

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.3998/dh.12172434.0001.001