tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post3993619721142385762..comments2024-08-05T15:24:53.506-04:00Comments on In the Middle: Blogging and Social Media: My GW DH TalkCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-60770836478526975392013-02-02T20:50:52.361-05:002013-02-02T20:50:52.361-05:00Thanks for the comments Noreen ... and for the lin...Thanks for the comments Noreen ... and for the links. What incredible students you have. The two projects only reaffirm for me how important it is for us to be teaching our students to write in modes beyond the research paper: these multimedia, multimodal projects are exemplary.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-90981090495792563532013-02-02T02:54:44.482-05:002013-02-02T02:54:44.482-05:00Jeffrey, Thank you so much for posting your paper...Jeffrey,<br /><br />Thank you so much for posting your paper here. Your generosity helps me become, digitally, part of a conversation I wish I could have joined physically last week. I am certain the performance with &quot;tweet noise&quot; was a singular experience. I enjoyed your piece very much in its less ephemeral, less time-delimited, form nevertheless. <br /><br />&#39;ve been thinking a lot about what I&#39;ve been calling &quot;the pedagogy of the digital&quot;; particularly I am exploring what kinds of fresh engagement in our venerable approaches to studies that the digital opens up.<br /><br />I was teaching a &quot;Writing for New Media&quot; course last semester to undergrads and we experimented with many &quot;new&quot; or &quot;digital humanities&quot; media, including Twitter, Wikipedia, and Wordpress.<br /><br />The class made a blog which was at once a community service project, a local history project, an archival project, and a way to infuse student voices with authority. I&#39;m still trying to theorize that.<br /><br />The blog is at blackdiamondcomedies.org and the strangest but most fun thing that has happened so far is that we got names &quot;Best local blogger&quot; in our weekly local newspaper. My sense is that was a real scholarly cross-over, because the usual bloggers are focused on our (extremely corrupt) local politics, or popular commercial topics like food blogs.<br /><br />I wonder also how to theorize the mix of old and new we are trying to work on at the college radio station. I have been working with students to produce podcasts of their work engaging in the local historical archives. (and other worthy topics--I am working on a piece right now that features five students writing about going to the Met in New York City for the first time). These projects get student voices out, encourage engaged student writing, and perhaps create a deeper commitment to meaningful work. You can find that at wrkc.kings.edu, under the sidebar &quot;Off the Page.&quot;<br /><br />It does blur the old boundaries of coursework--the possibilities of audience and purpose are very much broadened. As their professor, I am not really the audience but a conduit through which they can communicate their work.<br /><br />So much to think about. I hope I can join the conversation again sometime soon. Thank you to GW for the digital humanities conference!Noreen O'Connorhttp://blackdiamondcomedies.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-16422111600931191652013-01-27T11:33:43.055-05:002013-01-27T11:33:43.055-05:00Oh lord, I had no idea you were projecting the str...Oh lord, I had no idea you were projecting the stream - I now feel rather awful for getting in on the hashtag when musing upon conference twitterstreams&#39; efficacy. Perhaps a gentle devil&#39;s advocate is ok, though. Anyway, sorry!JLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05125485502823425497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-86735149421993733822013-01-27T11:04:05.591-05:002013-01-27T11:04:05.591-05:00And to Steve&#39;s point in particular, I want to ...And to Steve&#39;s point in particular, I want to say, first of all, YES. Strategic utopianism all the way. <br /><br />I do think it&#39;s important to reflect upon what modes of expression social media enable -- and indeed that was an emergent theme of the conference, as Ryan Cordell&#39;s blog post on Twitter gone wrong (link in main body of post) makes clear. Twitter makes it too easy to be snarky and lose sight of the fact that we are vulnerable human beings connected to each other in the common cause of advancing the humanities, even if some of us are not savvy users of or even especially interested in social media. We can&#39;t act as if the loquacious minority are a closed micro-community; they are not, but they will function as if one if the humanities we practice are not humane.<br /><br />Despite my own social media presence I am an ardent proponent of solitude. I get up every morning at 5 and run (in the dark, without an iPod). That hour of being alone in the world is some of the best thinking I get done all day -- and my main connections then are to the natural world (rabbits, foxes, and other urban edge wildlife) (and yes, owls; as many of you know I was attacked by an owl during a run last year); and also to the stars, planets, moon, scudding clouds. I love it, and without that time being alone I could not really get through my day. <br /><br />As those who know me well also hav learned, some of my social media use is to balance the time I preserve for my own work, my own sanity, and for the other portions of my life that I guard. I am not selfish (I&#39;m horrified that Kafka or Vergil could have desired to have their works destroyed upon their deaths, as if their work belonged only to them, as if it came only from them; I&#39;m grateful that they charged disobedient people to execute their desires). So solitariness also can quickly become self absorption; it&#39;s too easy to guard your time to the point at which you&#39;re not putting any effort into the communal struggle that advancing humanistic study requires.<br /><br />Long story short: BALANCE. As much as I believe in social media, because I have witnessed how powerful a force for reconfiguring the humanities they offer, I also believe in self preservation, boundary and quirky reserve. Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-22203176664225878512013-01-27T10:44:48.854-05:002013-01-27T10:44:48.854-05:00Thanks, everyone, for these comments. Keep them co...Thanks, everyone, for these comments. Keep them coming!<br /><br />As I told the conference organizers when I emailed to them the single slide I&#39;d made for an introductory background (before the screens went to the Twitter feed), I was trying to perform information overload in it. You can tell me if that was achieved: the slide is the first illustration for this ITM post, above. Imagine it on a screen that is almost floor to ceiling, plus two side screens ... and then its being replaced by a scrolling feed of the live tweets with the #gwdh13 hashtag. Again, I knew it would be busy and distracting -- but that was part of my point. I wanted to make the enfolding of digital and live communities visible to all instead of some -- that is, not just the &quot;loquacious minority&quot; that I reference in my talk; and also have those on Twitter see illustrated the impact of their tweets on audience. I&#39;m grateful that we had the technology to pull all this off!<br /><br />Gil Harris in the Q&amp;A got at the downside of this potential information overload: it&#39;s too much, and it can be hard to focus and difficult to sustain an intense conversation in the face of such proliferations. In my response I stressed that, for me, to live with &quot;too much&quot; is a problem inherent in our own worldedness. We can never pay attention to everything that surrounds us; we always make attentional choices, and therein lies an ethics. Cf. the 1980s Canon Wars discussions, when people worried that after authors like Virginia Woolf and Christine de Pisan elbowed their way next to Henry James and Chaucer there would be too much for us to focus on and we&#39;d lose commonality in our conversations. I don&#39;t think it is a coincidence that we saw the rise of theory at this same time in an attempt to hammer out a lingua franca and preserve community; we also saw and continue to see much temporally promiscuous thematic work that enables dialogue across specialties.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-35414329027935399202013-01-27T09:17:32.468-05:002013-01-27T09:17:32.468-05:00&quot;more gregarious, less solitary, less cold&qu...&quot;more gregarious, less solitary, less cold&quot; is a great refrain &amp; rallying cry for our profession. Thanks for posting the talk, which adds richness to the fragmentary tweets &amp; FB bread crumbs I&#39;ve been gathering. It was a great event, even to a mostly lurking presence from snowy CT!<br /><br />You allude to the blog/twiter/FB nexus, and briefly gesture toward a less utopian way to think about the changing shapes of social media networks. In general I think strategic utopianism is a good thing, esp as a counter-challenge to the doom &amp; gloom that surrounds so much thinking about the humanities today. But it would be interesting also to think about how imagined and virtually real publics shape the kinds of expression that are possible and realized. There&#39;s a part of my quasi-Romantic and Kafka-idolizing soul that sometimes still values the unconnected &amp; solitary in addition to the networked and public. Though of course I&#39;m happy Brod chose to make public rather than burn Kafka&#39;s manuscripts!Steve Mentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02927244468764583378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-7371313655981080712013-01-27T03:44:28.396-05:002013-01-27T03:44:28.396-05:00You&#39;ll have to imagine the giggling and other ...You&#39;ll have to imagine the giggling and other affects that the rolling twitter screen behind Jeffrey&#39;s fantastic with remarks from the audience.<br /><br />Great in text, but as your talk (and others) demonstrated, bringing text, the digital, and the personal together creates a beautiful (if ephemeral) experience. Bravo on all accounts :)Dr. M.W. Bychowski, Ph.Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08672365663976821234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-36314273050238283892013-01-26T21:17:39.920-05:002013-01-26T21:17:39.920-05:00Thanks for posting this so quickly Jeffrey! I do p...Thanks for posting this so quickly Jeffrey! I do plan to follow up with something about this on ITM later (and I&#39;ve said this to you before) but I&#39;ve always appreciated your openness, concern for others, and the creative ways you use ITM - and other online venues - to foster productive exchange and transformative community. <br /><br />I, too, was struck by how twitter spawned a &quot;parallel conference&quot; in cyberspace that had a strange life of its own hovering over (or subtly infusing) the actual experiences we were having &quot;on the ground.&quot; Ryan Cordell&#39;s blog posting is indeed a &quot;must read&quot; for twitter etiquette at conferences - and what I appreciate about this is that the whole thing actually provoked a real face-to-face conversation. I appreciate how Ryan has set out an excellent set of shared values (sorry if that sounds cheesy, but it&#39;s true!) for the twitter-community to keep in mind.Jonathan Hsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214201468052661183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-56733212826123089972013-01-26T21:00:48.954-05:002013-01-26T21:00:48.954-05:00Thanks for posting, Jeffrey! I admit I was a bit d...Thanks for posting, Jeffrey! I admit I was a bit distracted by the twitter feed (although I still think it was a worthwhile addition), so I appreciate having this to reference. hayliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08750786030542152620noreply@blogger.com
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