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Esther
Esther Grassian
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UCLA College Library
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Subject: Invitation: 2/2 Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities
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Esther Grassian
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Information Literacy Librarian
UCLA College Library
Box 951450
L.A., CA 90095-1450
Phone: 310-206-4410
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SL: Alexandria Knight
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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
<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.
