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. ...
by kirsr | Aug 2, 2012 | Changing Paradigms, Divides, Boundaries, and Debates, Student Experiences
One of the purposes of this site is to show that there are other ways of learning over and above standardized methods (like an instructor reading from slides or, worse, a textbook. if you do this: stop – stop it now). The essay format has been a stand-by in the...
by kirsr | Jul 30, 2012 | Explorations in Digital Theory
*trigger warning (this article mentions rape and sexual violence) Since beginning to conceive of a ‘digitizing of the humanities’ within the scope of this social media project, I have developed a hungry curiosity for the relationship that technology has...
by kirsr | Jul 30, 2012 | Divides, Boundaries, and Debates
The incremental changes in technology has left literature a little dusty. Libraries and the books they house maintain a dignified and necessary position in society, but it is not unusual to hear that a library has closed down, perhaps because of the lack of use from...
by kirsr | Jul 22, 2012 | Student Experiences
In the early 18th century, Joseph Addison, a publisher and playwright, founded the daily periodical, The Spectator. The goals of the magazine were idealistic: “to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality…to bring philosophy out of the...
