by kirsr | Aug 25, 2012 | Changing Paradigms, Creativity, Explorations in Digital Theory
In Walter Benjamin’s, “The Storyteller,” Benjamin laments the gradual decline of the story as oral practice and narrative form in modern society. He remarks, “[b]y now almost nothing that happens benefits storytelling, almost everything that...
by kirsr | Aug 16, 2012 | Changing Paradigms, Divides, Boundaries, and Debates, Explorations in Digital Theory, Student Experiences
Co-authored by Sara Humphreys [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkg-bzTHeAk] “Kent State Murder” Type it into Google and a number of images, websites, and blogs will come up, along with the Neil Young song above. The historical moment is...
by kirsr | Aug 10, 2012 | Changing Paradigms, Divides, Boundaries, and Debates, Student Experiences
Co-authored by Sara Humphreys When we began the this site and the project, our group was uncertain where to really begin. There were so many questions. How do we define what we are doing? What are we doing? The research my colleagues and I have done has provided...
by kirsr | Aug 10, 2012 | Changing Paradigms, Creativity
If you were to look at my undergraduate transcript, you’ll quickly and quizzically notice that I’ve ‘multi-tasked’ my educational areas of interest as many times as my browsers on any ether-day. In my first year at Trent University, I took...
by kirsr | Aug 5, 2012 | Changing Paradigms, Divides, Boundaries, and Debates, Explorations in Digital Theory, Student Experiences
One of the most intriguing faculties in the realm of the Digital Humanities I’ve discovered is that this loose and baggy discipline seems to span an innumerable number of disciplines. Today in Toronto’s Public Reference Library, I sat in a cubby with a stack of no...
by kirsr | Aug 4, 2012 | Changing Paradigms, Creativity, Divides, Boundaries, and Debates, Explorations in Digital Theory, Student Experiences
I have been a fan of the films of Stanley Kubrick since I was a teenager. I loved how Kubrick seemed to be a mystic of sorts. He relied on the susceptibility of the audience to be entertained while also being convinced that what they were seeing was reality. ...
