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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

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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

                Readingshttp://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.