Monthly Archives: February 2013

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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Improving a Teaching and Reading Tool

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Sean O'Brien

Last year, my colleague Eric Morgan and I made a web-application called theCatholic Youth Literature Project.  It was designed as a classroom tool to offer students opportunities for close- and distant-reading of 19th-century texts and possibilities for the class 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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Re-Packaging Irksome Toil

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Roger Bruce

Proposal Prolog: I recently retired from George Eastman House where I served as Director of Interpretation (and for a time, by default, as make-shift CIO).   Collecting institutions unaffiliated with muscular university information technology face special challenges in the management, cataloging, … Continue reading →

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the future of citation

Posted on February 17, 2013 by meg worley

We’ve gone from zero to sixty in terms of open access, social reading, massively-collaborative composition, and other features of the post-authoritative textual world.  I fully expect that we’ll break Mach 1 in a few short years. Where does this leave … 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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#1B1T: Twitter’s social reading of American Gods

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Denice Szafran

In the spring of 2010, inspired by groups and communities who were social reading novels, member of the Twitter community decided to do a “One Book, One Twitter” reading online. “Let’s love one book together, our actual geographical location be … Continue reading →

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