This Friday 21 February the CDHC conference will take place at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA. You can view the full conference schedule at this link. If you’d like to attend and/or join the consortium check out the CDHC website.
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Feb 12
Suzanne’s Coding Practice Site!
I was able to make a WP site to practice Emma’s coding cues! It worked! I’m not sure how to link the new page to the T&T page, so I’m copying the URL here to see if that works! Is there some magical HTML code for that? LOL https://sites.wp.odu.edu/sgutcodingpractice/
Jan 23
Media, Pictures, and Lisa Gitelman’s Always Already New
In the introduction to her book Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture, Lisa Gitelman explains that media are plural, that they exist as “socially-realized structures of communication” (7). This definition is important because it deals with two ways that people tend to talk about media. The first, as outlined by Gitelman, …
Jan 23
Which Is Your Favorite This Time? A Reader’s Perspective
Several years ago during a class discussion about favorite stories and composition, a student asked me to identify my favorite line or scene from A Christmas Carol, and I couldn’t answer. Try as I might, I couldn’t pinpoint one. After class, the question haunted me. Why wasn’t I able to answer a simple question about …
Jan 23
Viewing Deep Time as a Means of Technological Immortality
Cyberpunk, as an emerging genre in the late twentieth century, opened up a new side of humanity–a digital humanity the politics of which are still being hashed out today. Siegfried Zielinski frames cyberpunk genre and techno-romanticisim as ushering in a new lebensgefühl–a term which is tied to the vital feelings of the human body. Expanding …
Jan 22
J. Butler: Response to Introduction: The Idea of a Deep Time of the Media
Siegfried Zielinski is appropriating “Deep Time” from its original uses in geology – the act of literally going deeper into the Earth’s layers to date and learn more about the past, and present. In his appropriation of this terminology, Zielinski aims to do much of the same when he calls for a “different perspective from …
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