Event Title
H-Net & Digital Peer Review; Tracing New Possibilities
Location
CB1-318
Start Date
4-11-2017 8:15 AM
End Date
4-11-2017 9:45 AM
Description
H-Net & Digital Peer Review (Robert Cassanello and Yelena Kalinsky)
Robert Cassanello, VP of Research and Publications with H-Net and Yelena Kalinsky Associate Director and Managing Editor, Reviews at H-Net launched a network based Peer Review initiative in 2016-2017. Individual networks at H-Net have launched original scholarly projects on H-Net. Robert and Yelena will address the nature of these projects and how H-Net adopted a digital peer review guidelines and standards for networks and how this process how to consider things like governance for the online network of scholarly groups. Robert and Yelena will address network based Digital Peer Review and ways in which H-Net can be a place for Digital Peer Review.
Tracing New Possibilities for Research and Collaboration (Kyle Bohunicky, Melissa Bianchi, Caleb Milligan, Shannon Butts, Jason Crider, Emily Brooks and Madeline Gangnes)
Despite recent innovative work in digital humanities, traditional modes of evaluating and circulating scholarship continue to create barriers for producing research. Concerns about project legitimacy and institutional support limit how scholars generate DH projects, often privileging knowledge production in digital forms that reproduce conventional modes of print media. Sharing the mission of HASTAC and The Futures Initiative, this roundtable opens a conversation about alternative forms of research and publication by discussing The Trace Innovation Initiative in the Department of English at the University of Florida—a hub for interdisciplinary research in digital technologies, media studies, and writing studies. Trace focuses on how new technologies affect the ways we read and write as well as how scholars might move away from "hand-me-down technologies" to create alternative means for research. To this end, Trace serves as a resource for scholars and collaborators across the nation who design and implement innovative technologies in humanities research, pedagogies, and maker projects.
Our roundtable details several Trace projects to start a dialogue about how emerging technologies are changing the way we teach, learn, and create knowledge. The Trace Innovation Initiative is currently comprised of several components: augmented reality (AR) applications; a big data mining program; a scholarly arts publication; digital technology workshops; a game design lab; a digital, peer reviewed journal. AR applications, called Augmented Reality Criticisms (ARCs), encourage positive political and cultural change by offering marginalized subjects a voice alongside and against hegemonic perspectives. AR projects developed by Trace, including SeeWorld and Disney Death Tour, illustrate the fundamental importance of multimodal and public writing in spurring social change and scholarly criticism. MassMine is open source software that provides digital humanists a set of easy to use tools for creating social media data archives, querying and mining the archives, and revealing the processes and technologies for generating new research methods and questions. Sequentials publishes interpretations of academic subjects or themes drawn and explained through the comics medium, contributing to the flourishing field of comics scholarship. Furthermore, members of Trace collaborate with the Marston Science Library to host maker workshops on Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and 3D modeling and scanning technologies. Play@Trace provides a space for humanities work in game design, game-based criticism, and game studies by repurposing and archiving legacy gaming technologies as well as designing subversive game media. In addition, Trace: Journal of Media, Cultures, Ecologies is an online, open-access journal that publishes interdisciplinary research at the intersections of writing studies, media studies, cultural studies, and ecocriticism.
With the rapid development of new technologies for invention and delivery, humanities scholars should continue to pursue novel strategies for creating and working within these emerging media. Moreover, the field must work towards new vocabularies, assessment strategies, and venues for digital scholarship. The various Trace initiatives demonstrate how we might imagine possible worlds for collaborative DH scholarship.
H-Net & Digital Peer Review; Tracing New Possibilities
CB1-318
H-Net & Digital Peer Review (Robert Cassanello and Yelena Kalinsky)
Tracing New Possibilities for Research and Collaboration (Kyle Bohunicky, Melissa Bianchi, Caleb Milligan, Shannon Butts, Jason Crider, Emily Brooks and Madeline Gangnes)
