Hi everyone! With apologies for any cross-posting, just wanted to let you know about the CUNY DIgital Humanities Initiative meeting coming up on Wednesday. We’d love to see NMLers there — it should be great. The announcement is below, and a flyer is attached, in case you’d like to pass it along to colleagues who might be interested.

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! With apologies for any cross-posting, just wanted to let you know about the CUNY DIgital Humanities Initiative meeting coming up on Wednesday. We’d love to see NMLers there — it should be great. The announcement is below, and a flyer is attached, in case you’d like to pass it along to colleagues who might be interested.

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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[Charlie Edwards]

Hi everyone! Again, with apologies for any cross-posting, just wanted to let you know about the CUNY DIgital Humanities Initiative meeting coming up on Wednesday. It’s our last of the semester, and as usual we’d love to see you there. The announcement is below, and a flyer is attached, in case you’d like to pass it along to colleagues who might be interested.

May 4: Douglas Armato (University of Minnesota Press) on “Digital Media’s Prehistory and the Nine Lives of Scholarly Publishing”

Please join us on Wednesday, May 4, 2011, when CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative will welcome Douglas Armato, Director of the University of Minnesota Press and Editor of its Digital Culture Studies List, to speak on “Digital Media’s Prehistory and the Nine Lives of Scholarly Publishing.”

Scholarly publishing has survived through adaptation and economic reinvention and now faces new challenges, and opportunities, as the market for ebooks reaches escape velocity and the emergence of the digital humanities reconfigures academic work. Doug’s talk will discuss how university presses are adapting both individually and collectively to the digital environment and how presses remain a vital counterforce to the diminished status of the humanities in higher education.

This will our last public event of the semester – we very much hope you can attend. We would also like to take the opportunity to thank all of you who have participated in CUNY DHI, online or in person, and helped to make the group’s first year such a success. We look forward to next year’s activities!

Doug’s 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.

Time & Place: Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 6:30-8:30pm, Room C201/202, CUNY Graduate Center

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