Comments on: Scholarly arguments in non-text-based media http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/25/scholarly-arguments-in-non-text-based-media/ The Humanities And Technology Camp Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:00:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: barbarahui http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/25/scholarly-arguments-in-non-text-based-media/#comment-407 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:10:29 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=261#comment-407 I’d love to discuss this also–count me in! Why is it so hard to find non-text-based examples of humanities argumentation? Is it because the tools to do it don’t exist, or is it because non-text platforms/environments are anathema to this kind of argumentation? I think I missed the UCLA DH session you mention, so I’m eager to hear more. You pose great questions!

]]> By: john theibault http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/25/scholarly-arguments-in-non-text-based-media/#comment-406 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:15:25 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=261#comment-406 Mary,

I’m glad I met you at DH09 and now regret that we didn’t even get on to this topic in our brief conversation. Alas, I’m not at ThatCamp. This topic interests me a great deal. I’d be interested to know who you spoke with about this at DH09. Two people who expressed interest to me in the topic at DH were Elli Mylonas of Brown’s STG and Josh Sternberg of UCLA. I used the word “digital monograph” with Elli, but I think we mean something similar — how can one assemble a chain of reasoning without relying on text to be the main links of the chain. One obvious difference between film and the web, though, is that the user decides how to follow the chain on the web, while the director does in a film. In fact, film seems even less flexible from the users stand point than print, where lots of people use the index to find just the passage they want, skipping over the intervening steps that create the argument.

I’ll be in touch when you get back to California.

John

]]> By: Alxjrvs http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/25/scholarly-arguments-in-non-text-based-media/#comment-405 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:02:10 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=261#comment-405 I would personally love to discuss this topic, and the overall issue of the weight of non-text-based media in an academic setting – I.e., from my experience, the “Paper” is the only thing that has weight someplaces. A video highlighting the argument at hand is nothing more than flashing lights. This could also come from the lack of a vocabulary regarding Non-text: do some just not know how to deal with supercool free youtube videos?

Looking forward to it!

]]> By: joguldi http://chnm2009.thatcamp.org/06/25/scholarly-arguments-in-non-text-based-media/#comment-404 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:00:49 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=261#comment-404 yes please!! fwiw, i did some writing about ideas here: landscape.blogspot.com/2009/02/future-of-academic-journal-take-down.html

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