Category Archives: Session Proposals

Posts from participants proposing a session.

Mapping/Taxonomizing the vSocial Reading (and Writing)

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Matthew Bernius

This proposal is an outgrowth of a couple conversations from the sessions of the first day of THATCamp. As with other forms and modes of reading and writing, there are multiple modes of social reading. Categorizing the different types and … Continue reading →

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Barriers to Social Reading Projects

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Lara Nicosia

Every project is going to have certain barriers to implementation.  Acknowledging these barriers allows you to be better prepared when an issue arises.  I would like to have a discussion around some of these barriers and their potential implications. As … Continue reading →

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Make session: Social Reading Toolkit

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Lauren Stern

I propose to create an implementation toolkit for social reading.  I’d personally like to create a toolkit for academic libraries, but that’s open to the participants – we can make the toolkit as general or as specific as we need … Continue reading →

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From Social Computing to Social Reading

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Paul Schacht

In the final paragraph of his essay From Reading to Social Computing, Alan Liu asks, [W]hat is the differentia specifica of literary social computing? That is, how does engagement with literature or literary communities inflect, extend, or criticize the culturally … Continue reading →

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Data Visualization

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Nora Dimmock

At University of Rochester we’re involved in a project that is visualizing the temporal narrative of television shows. We would like to have a discussion about data visualization to hear from other projects that are using data visualization in the … Continue reading →

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Innovations in peer review: open peer review, post-publication review and more

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Bonnie Swoger

Over the past ten years, innovations in web technology have enabled a shift in scholarly publishing.  New initiatives bring the editing and review process to the public. Publishers of humanities journals are following the lead of science publishers and make … Continue reading →

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Talk Session Proposal: Interaction Traces: Reader, Interface, and the Social

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Patrick Williams

I’d like to lead a conversation about the affordances of social reading environments and their implications for readers’ perception of texts, their authors, and their co-readers.  My interest in these questions draws from my research in computer-supported cooperative learning and … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 22, 2013 by Dana Paxson

In a session of less than 30 minutes, I can demonstrate and discuss: 1) e-enhanced literature (my own fiction on steroids), and 2) virtual-world interactive story settings (same fiction presented via Second Life viewer). The first requires only a standard Web … Continue reading →

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