Hi everyone, here’s the announcement and a flyer for our next meeting on Wednesday; please do pass it along to your colleagues. Kathleen will be great — not to be missed!

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March 30: Kathleen Fitzpatrick on “Peer Review, Open Scholarship, and the Digital Humanities”

Please join us on Wednesday, March 30, when CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative will host Kathleen Fitzpatrick of Pomona College, who will speak on “Peer Review, Open Scholarship, and the Digital Humanities.”

Peer review is the sine qua non of the academy: we use it in nearly everything we do, and cannot imagine what scholarship would be without it. But for such a crucial component of the ways that we work, none of us are wholly satisfied with it, either. Moreover, conventional forms of peer review are often misaligned with the kinds of open scholarship being produced in the digital humanities. This talk takes a brief look at the history and the present criticism of peer review as a means of exploring its future, particularly as scholarly publishing moves increasingly online: what might peer review that took advantage of the reputation economies developed within networked communities look like, and how might it help scholarly communication flourish?

Time & Place: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 6:30-8:30pm, Room 6417, CUNY Graduate Center

This talk is co-sponsored by the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative and the CUNY Digital Studies Group, in partnership with The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

About Kathleen Fitzpatrick:
Kathleen is Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College. She is author of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television (2006) and Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, forthcoming from NYU Press. Planned Obsolescence was published using an experimental open peer review process by MediaCommons Press, a project of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons, co-founded by Kathleen. She has published in journals including the Journal of Electronic Publishing, PMLA, Contemporary Literature, and Cinema Journal, and has blogged at Planned Obsolescence since 2002.

About CUNY DHI:
The group, based on the CUNY Academic Commons, was launched in Fall 2010, and aims to bring together 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.

CUNY DHI Co-Directors: Charlie Edwards (Student, CUNY GC English PhD) and Matthew Gold (Faculty, City Tech English and CUNY GC ITP)
Contact us at: cunydhi@gmail.com

Links:
Spring schedule: http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/02/16/cuny-digital-humanities-initiative-spring-2011-schedule/
The group: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/digital-humanities-initiative/
The blog: http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
On twitter @cunydhi: http://twitter.com/cunydhi

The group has also created the CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide, an introductory guide to the field: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/The_CUNY_Digital_Humanities_Resource_Guide

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Hi everyone, here’s the announcement and a flyer for our next meeting on Wednesday; please do pass it along to your colleagues. Kathleen will be great — not to be missed!

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March 30: Kathleen Fitzpatrick on “Peer Review, Open Scholarship, and the Digital Humanities”

Please join us on Wednesday, March 30, when CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative will host Kathleen Fitzpatrick of Pomona College, who will speak on “Peer Review, Open Scholarship, and the Digital Humanities.”

Peer review is the sine qua non of the academy: we use it in nearly everything we do, and cannot imagine what scholarship would be without it. But for such a crucial component of the ways that we work, none of us are wholly satisfied with it, either. Moreover, conventional forms of peer review are often misaligned with the kinds of open scholarship being produced in the digital humanities. This talk takes a brief look at the history and the present criticism of peer review as a means of exploring its future, particularly as scholarly publishing moves increasingly online: what might peer review that took advantage of the reputation economies developed within networked communities look like, and how might it help scholarly communication flourish?

Time & Place: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 6:30-8:30pm, Room 6417, CUNY Graduate Center

This talk is co-sponsored by the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative and the CUNY Digital Studies Group, in partnership with The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

About Kathleen Fitzpatrick:
Kathleen is Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College. She is author of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television (2006) and Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, forthcoming from NYU Press. Planned Obsolescence was published using an experimental open peer review process by MediaCommons Press, a project of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons, co-founded by Kathleen. She has published in journals including the Journal of Electronic Publishing, PMLA, Contemporary Literature, and Cinema Journal, and has blogged at Planned Obsolescence since 2002.

About CUNY DHI:
The group, based on the CUNY Academic Commons, was launched in Fall 2010, and aims to bring together 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.

CUNY DHI Co-Directors: Charlie Edwards (Student, CUNY GC English PhD) and Matthew Gold (Faculty, City Tech English and CUNY GC ITP)
Contact us at: cunydhi@gmail.com

Links:
Spring schedule: http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/02/16/cuny-digital-humanities-initiative-spring-2011-schedule/
The group: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/digital-humanities-initiative/
The blog: http://cunydhi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
On twitter @cunydhi: http://twitter.com/cunydhi

The group has also created the CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide, an introductory guide to the field: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/index.php/The_CUNY_Digital_Humanities_Resource_Guide

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[Maura A. Smale (she/her)]

I’m really disappointed that I’ll have to miss this — I’ll definitely keep an eye out for the video. Thanks!