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Fri, Jan 04 2013 14:20:02

MLA13 S307: The Dark Side of Digital Humanities

http://www.mla.org/program_details?prog_id=307&year=2013 My Twitter stream went crazy over this, so I just added many of the tweets that took place during it so I could follow along afterward.

  1. mkirschenbaum
    Matthew Kirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum
    Oh my, but the tribe is gathering for #s307, "The Dark Side of the Digital Humanities." #mla13
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:37:37
  2. #mla13 #s307 http://pic.twitter.com/KMc6YWz1
    Edmond Chang@edmondchang
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    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:39:11
  3. eetempleton
    Erin Templeton@eetempleton
    #mla13 #s307 And so begins my journey to the Dark Side (of the Digital Humanities).
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:42:54
  4. edmondchang
    Edmond Chang@edmondchang
    Darth Vader's march brought to you (briefly) by @whkchun #mla13 #s307
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:44:54
  5. patrick_mj
    Patrick Murray-John@patrick_mj
    Curious about the spectrum of views people are walking into #s307 #mla13 "Dark Side of Digital Humanities" with
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:45:38
  6. HRH_QueenB
    Rebecca Harris@HRH_QueenB
    The room is packed and lively. #s307 #mla13
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:46:29
  7. mcburton
    mcburton@mcburton
    It is ground zero for Digital Humanities in #s307 #mla13 right now.
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:47:42
  8. briancroxall
    Brian Croxall@briancroxall
    .@whkchun Dark side of DH is its bright side. Has the promise that it will fix everything. This strikes me as bullshit. #mla13 #s307
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:48:09
  9. gwijthoff
    Grant Wythoff@gwijthoff
    Looking forward to an entire panel of explicit provocations #s307 #mla13
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:48:26
  10. HRH_QueenB
    Rebecca Harris@HRH_QueenB
    Chun: Database building knowledge isn't going to make English majors competitive with engineers. #mla13 #s307
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:49:23
  11. glennhroe
    Glenn Roe@glennhroe
    Chun: "Engineers are unemployed too" #s307 #mla13
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:51:12
  12. briancroxall
    Brian Croxall@briancroxall
    .@whkchun: Even training in DH won't make English majors competitors for Engineering jobs. But DH *does* renew the humanities. #mla13 #s307
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:49:31
  13. eetempleton
    Erin Templeton@eetempleton
    #mla13 #s307 @whkchun Humanities should play a big role in big data . . . b/c we can see what big data ignores.
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:49:43
  14. briancroxall
    Brian Croxall@briancroxall
    .@whkchun: My critique is aimed at the general euphoria surrounding technology and education. #mla13 #s307
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:50:03
  15. edmondchang
    Edmond Chang@edmondchang
    .@whkchun the promise of the dark side of the DH is "bull..." no problem w/ DH per se, some is great, re: dmlcentral.net/blog/liz-losh/… #mla13 #s307
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:50:25
  16. briancroxall
    Brian Croxall@briancroxall
    .@whkchun: MOOCs rather than a dedicated public conversation about how to fix higher ed is technical determinism. #mla13 #s307
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:50:30
  17. mkirschenbaum
    Matthew Kirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum
    Four minutes into #s307, and the conflation of MOOCs and DH as begun. #mla13
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:50:50
  18. Rhetoricked
    Brian N. Larson@Rhetoricked
    #mla13 #s307 Chun: Main argument is that "Vapid embrace of the digital... is cruel optimism."
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:51:46
  19. briancroxall
    Brian Croxall@briancroxall
    .@whkchun: Blind and vapid embrace of the digital allows us to believe once more that all the grad students will get jobs. #mla13 #s307
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:52:50
  20. amandafrench
    Amanda French@amandafrench
    Wendy K Chun cites Lauren Berlant on "cruel optimism": what you profoundly desire is itself an obstacle to what you desire. #s307 #mla13
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:53:31
  21. briancroxall
    Brian Croxall@briancroxall
    I'm skeptical that anyone actually sees DH as a panacea. But it IS exciting and worth thinking about. DH is not treading water. #s307 #mla13
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:53:29
  22. eetempleton
    Erin Templeton@eetempleton
    #mla13 #s307 @whkchun DH's cruel optimism allows us to ignore the real economic problems of the profession.
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:53:41
  23. glennhroe
    Glenn Roe@glennhroe
    DH allows us to survive, to tread water, to thrive? #s307 #mla13
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:53:41
  24. pbenzon
    Paul Benzon@pbenzon
    @whkchun What destroys us in long term sustains us in the short term--we survive but don't thrive, w/in a bureaucratic logic #s307 #mla13
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:54:14
  25. markcmarino
    Mark C. Marino@markcmarino
    @whkchun:The sadness of academic careers measured in MPUs: Minimum Publishabe Units #mla13 s307
    Fri, Jan 04 2013 10:54:57

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