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Best,
Esther
Esther
Grassian
Co-Manager,
DLF’s Entropia
&
Information
Literacy Librarian
UCLA
College Library
Box
951450
L.A.,
CA 90095-1450
Phone:
310-206-4410
Fax:
310-206-9312
SL:
Alexandria Knight
Skype:
esthergrassian
There:
Sefer
You are invited to attend the February 2009
Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities: http://tinyurl.com/472nah
Topic: Digital
Scholarship and New Media Publication
Readings:
http://tinyurl.com/c492aj
Presenter: Tara
McPherson
Date: Monday, February
2, 2009
Time: 2 pm – 5
pm PST/SLT
Location:
Real Life (RL):
UCLA Visualization Portal (5628 Math and Sciences Bldg.)
Second Life (SL):
Entropia, the Digital Library Federation’s SL island—rsvp needed
Second Life basic accounts are free: http://secondlife.com
NOTE to SL attendees: Please rsvp to Esther Grassian [log in to unmask] to reserve
a space and receive the SLURL (SL url), as well as instructions for viewing the
live video feed and adjusting the audio in SL.
This
presentation will explore several aspects of the international electronic
journal, Vectors: its conception, its mandates, its infrastructure,
and its innovative collaborative design process. Some questions to be
considered include: What happens when scholarship looks and feels differently,
requiring different modes of engagement from the reader/user? How does
"argument" shift when scholarship goes fully networked and
multimedia? How do you "experience" argument in a more immersive and
sensory-rich space? Can scholarship show as well as tell? What do humanities
scholars gain from working with database structures? What kind of new partnerships
will be required among libraries, publishers, and scholars to foster future
growth in this area? How might the lessons of Vectors be
translated to other arenas?
About Tara McPherson:
Tara
McPherson teaches courses in new media, television, and popular culture in the
School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California (USC).
Her Reconstructing
Dixie: Race, Gender and Nostalgia in the Imagined South (Duke
UP: 2003) received the 2004 John G. Cawelti Award for the outstanding book published
on American Culture, among other awards. She is co-editor of the
anthology Hop on Pop:
The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (Duke UP: 2003)
and editor of Digital
Youth, Innovation and the Unexpected, part of the MacArthur
Foundation series on Digital Media and Learning (MIT Press, 2008). She is
currently co-editing an anthology on digital narrative and politics and working
on a book manuscript on the racial epistemologies of new media. Her new media
research focuses on issues of convergence, gender, race, and representation, as
well as upon the development of new tools and paradigms for digital publishing,
learning, and authorship.
She is the founding editor of Vectors, the multimedia peer-reviewed
journal sponsored by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at the University of
Southern California. Vectors pushes far beyond the "text with
pictures" format of much online scholarly publishing, encouraging work
that takes full advantage of the multimodal and networked capacities of computing
technologies. She was recently selected as one of three editors for the new
MacArthur-supported International
Journal of Learning and Media (forthcoming from MIT Press in
2009), a hybrid online/print journal that will also explore new forms of online
publishing.