All,
A great example of the innovation possible in digital scholarship is Duke’s Greater Than Games Lab’s new game. Check the trailer:
Intrigued? Join the community playing here. Scroll to the bottom and click ‘we’ to see the discussion forum where people are working together to put the pieces in place…
E
All,
Semaphore co-founder Whitney Trettien will be one of the panelists, and will present her Whiki she maintains on her sweet website. Check it out!
Elliott
Munch & Mull: “Wiki as research tool in the humanities”
Monday, April 16, 12:00-1:00 PM
BorderWork(s) Lab – Room 189, Bay 5, Smith Warehouse
A conversation with FHI GDSI students Darren Mueller, Mary Caton Lingold, and Whitney Trettien about possibilities and realities around wiki use in graduate research. Please read/review the following prior to this event:
Among topics for discussion are the ways that wikis can support organization and shared development of online resources in a narrow field of study, how wikis continue previous analog practices of circulating paper notes for qualifying exam preparation, and how protective humanities scholars’ should (or should not) feel about their ideas. This is an informal discussion, intended to raise awareness, questions, and ideas around how to evaluate and incorporate innovative approaches to humanistic research.
Munch & Mull is a brown-bag digital humanities reading group in the Duke University Libraries, which meets over lunch every Monday, 12-1, to discuss current issues, trends, tools, and methods in digital humanities. FHI is graciously supplying the “brown bags” for this event; please register if you’d like to receive a lunch: https://fhi.duke.edu/events/wiki-humanities-signup
UNC People: Meet at the Planetarium before 5pm if you’d like to catch the Robertson over to Duke! See you there!
-Elliott
WHAT: Semaphore Group Discussion and DINNER!
WHEN: Thursday, March 29th, 5:45-7:15
WHERE: Duke, Greater than Games Lab (Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C104)
WHO: Anyone interested in Media and Technology studies, broadly defined. All are welcome!
RSVP: Requested to wtrettien@gmail.com
http://semaphoreworkinggroup.org/
This is Semaphore‘s second general meeting. In addition to our usual chow/chill/chat time to mingle with colleagues new+old, we’ll use this time to begin to schedule some of our workshops.
Remember, we have funding for 3 “curated workshops” (these can be talks, show-and-tells, a one-off reading group) and 3 “skills workshops.” If you or a group want to teach or curate one of these workshops, please be sure you or one of your group members is in attendance on Thursday, as we’ll be jamming on proposed topics and we don’t want anyone’s idea to be left behind!
If you can’t stay for the entire meeting, please still feel free to join us for chow/chill/chat time.
To get to Greater than Games Lab
If driving, there is visitor parking along the South side of the Smith Warehouse. Enter at Bay 4. From UNC, you can also take the 5pm Robertson bus to Duke’s West Campus, then hop on the C1 bus and ask the driver to drop you off at Smith Warehouse. Elliott will be taking the Robertson and has volunteered to help UNC folks find their way to Smith; so if you’re confused, hook up with him!
