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Digital Humanities Initiative

The CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative (CUNY DHI), launched in Fall 2010, aims to build connections and community among those at CUNY who are applying digital technologies to scholarship and pedagogy in the humanities. All are welcome: faculty, students, and technologists, experienced practitioners and beginning DHers, enthusiasts and skeptics.

We meet regularly on- and offline to explore key topics in the Digital Humanities, and share our work, questions, and concerns. See our blog for more information on upcoming events (it’s also where we present our group’s work to a wider audience). Help edit the CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide, our first group project. And, of course, join the conversation on the Forum.

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  • The Readers’ Bill of Rights for Digital Books

    Posted by Alycia Sellie (she/her/they) on March 9, 2011 at 4:55 pm

    Hi Digital Humanities folks!

    I thought some of you might be interested in a project I have been working on for some time: The Readers’ Bill of Rights for Digital Books: https://readersbillofrights.info
    We’re arguing against digital restrictions upon electronic books, and especially so for libraries. There have been many recent (and terrible) manifestations of proprietary digital reading that threaten the ways in which we have shared and used information (the 1984 incident, and HarperCollins’ recent licensing in which library ebooks self-destruct after 26 checkouts) as well as many smaller, more nuanced issues. We’re promoting a future for ebooks that includes the right to read in digital form.

    Today we’ve released a new graphic by Nina Paley, “Readers Against DRM,” which I am attaching below. Please feel free to use and share it!

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