New-form scholarship reconsiders citation and peer-review, while re-imagining the containers and audiences for academic work. Digital platforms, like Twitter, open-access journals, and blogs offer both limitations and possibilities. The public digital humanities is built around networked learning communities, not repositories for content, and its scholarly product is a conversation, one that engages a broad public while blurring the distinction between research, teaching, service, and outreach. In short, the public digital humanities starts with humans, not technologies or tools.
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New-form Scholarship and the Public digital humanities
1. Photo by flickr user LearningLark
New-form Scholarship
and the Public Digital Humanities
Jesse Stommel (@Jessifer)
“The work of public engagement comes not after the scholarship, but as part of the scholarship.”
~ Steven Lubar, “Seven Rules for Public Humanities”
2. “Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of most of
us and subtly programming us into conformity to the logic of its system.”
~ Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“I am hopeful, not out of mere stubbornness, but out of an existential,
concrete imperative.”
~ Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Hope
Photo by Crystal
3. Increasingly, the web is a space of politics, a social space, a professional
space, a space of learning, a space of community. And, for better or worse,
more and more of our work is happening there.
Photo by flickr user Tatcher a Hainu
4. Scholarship
“The social contract of the book is profoundly entrenched and powerful
—almost mythological—especially in the humanities.”
~ Dan Cohen, “The Social Contract of Scholarly Publishing”
5. “I am not suggesting that the future survival of the academy requires us
to put academic publishing safely in its grave, [but] I do want to indicate
that certain aspects of the academic publishing process are neither quite
as alive as we’d like them to be, nor quite as dead as might be most
convenient … It’s thus important for us to consider the work that the
book is and isn’t doing for us.”
~ Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence
Photo by Celeste
7. Public Scholarship
“I no longer believe that when I publish articles in journals with
minuscule circulations I am contributing to the field—if by ‘field’ we mean
the thousands of well-meaning individuals who go to work each day in
places called schools.”
~ Sam Wineburg, “Choosing Real-World Impact Over Impact Factor”
8. “The problem is writing articles instead of making sure the articles
actually change the world.”
~ Martin Bickman, “Returning to Community and Praxis”
Photo by luca savettiere
9. Making scholarly work legible to the public and helping it find an audience
is a form of outreach, community building, and advocacy. But doing public
work is not just about making academic work public.
Photo by flickr user Steven Leonti
10. “The work of research that is not legible to others always feels, rhetorically,
like lifting stones uphill: constantly establishing premises rather than moving
on to the deep exploration of that one particular thing.”
~ Bonnie Stewart, “What counts as academic influence online?”
Photo by flickr user Francesco Lodolo
11. Public Digital Scholarship
“Intellectuals have a responsibility to analyze how language, information,
and meaning work to organize, legitimate, and circulate values, structure
reality, and offer up particular notions of agency and identity. For public
intellectuals, the latter challenge demands a new kind of literacy and
critical understanding with respect to the emergence of the new media
and electronic technologies, and the new and powerful role they play as
instruments of public pedagogy.”
~ Henry Giroux, On Critical Pedagogy
12. “Post-print publishing keeps its focus on moving objects: digital artifacts and
networked conversations that can be plumbed at the level of the code
behind them, tracked in their progress through the web, or catalogued next
to works beside which they would not normally sit.”
~ Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel, “Hybrid Pedagogy, Digital Humanities,
and the Future of Academic Publishing”
Photo by flickr user Dmitry Krendelev
14. Writing is, for me, a pedagogical act. The impetus for my research and
publishing is to do my pedagogy in different, more open, and sometimes
larger spaces. It isn’t that my scholarship and teaching are connected, but
rather that they are coterminous. For me, Twitter is the space where this
is most fully realized.
Photo by flickr user twinkabauter
15. “The rot we’re seeing in Twitter is the rot of participatory media devolved
into competitive spheres where the collective “we” treats conversational
contributions as fixed print-like identity claims.”
~ Bonnie Stewart, “Something is rotten in the state of…Twitter”
Photo by Hamed Saber
16. It isn’t that a single tweet constitutes scholarship, although in rare cases one
might, but rather that Twitter and participatory media more broadly
disperses the locus of scholarship, making the work less about scholarly
products and more about community presence and engagement.
Photo by Jan Plogmann
17. “As a medium, Twitter is decentered–that’s why gatekeeper journalists and
conservative luddites continue to warn us about the dangers of the messy,
uncontrollable, fragmented nature of twitter conversations.”
~ Dorothy Kim and Eunsong Kim, “The #TwitterEthics Manifesto”
Photo by Bob Jagendorf
18. Open-access Publishing
“To be published or to be read, that is the question scholars increasingly
face. Although publications with reputable university presses or journals
continue to be the cornerstone of the tenure and promotion process,
many remain inaccessible to a broad audience, bound up, as they often
are, in paper volumes or locked behind paywalls required by the
outmoded business practices of scholarly publishers.”
~ Christopher P. Long, “To Be Published or To Be Read”
19. all learning is necessarily hybrid
Hybrid Pedagogy is an open-access journal that
: is not ideologically neutral;
: connects discussions of critical pedagogy, digital pedagogy, and online pedagogy;
: brings higher education and K-12 teachers into conversation with the e-learning and
open education communities;
: considers our personal and professional hybridity;
: disrupts distinctions between students, teachers, and learners;
: explores the relationship between pedagogy and scholarship;
: invites its audience to participate in (and be an integral part of) the peer review process;
: and thus interrogates (and makes transparent) academic publishing practices.
20. We are a group of (mostly) humanists who run a peer-reviewed digital journal as part of
a project that stretches well beyond the digital humanities into educational technology,
composition studies, labor advocacy, and critical pedagogy.
The Goals of Hybrid Pedagogy are to
: interrogate academic publishing practices by making them transparent;
: share models that can be duplicated, reconfigured, and reworked by other digital
publishing projects;
: offer scholars strategies for making their pedagogical, editorial, and outreach work
legible as scholarship;
: reveal publishing as overtly pedagogical;
: make pedagogy more public, an open dialogue not a monologue.
21. In our efforts at scholarly publishing, I would argue for the exact opposite
of objectivity -- for an intense subjectivity. Not just open peer review but
collaborative peer review, where works are read and produced by and for a
community of scholars.
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22. Hybrid Pedagogy uses a Collaborative Peer Review process, in which editors engage
directly with authors to revise and develop articles. Editorial work is done both
asynchronously and synchronously in a Google Doc that evolves through an open
dialogue between author and editors.
23. Hybrid Pedagogy is less focused on publishing articles as content repositories and more
on reimagining scholarship as pedagogical, publishing as a way to create conversations
and bridge academic and non-academic communities.
24.
25. The Humanities
The HUMANITIES is an approach more than a discipline. An engagement
with what it is to be human. Generosity is at its core.
26. The Digital Humanities
The DIGITAL HUMANITIES is as much about reading humanities texts
with digital tools as it is about using human tools to read digital texts. At
the center of the digital humanities should be an emphasis on individual
and collective agency, which means advocating for marginalized teachers,
scholars, and students. This is how DH can and should innovate, not
through competition, clearcutting, and hype cycles, but by listening
intently to more (and more diverse) voices.
27. The Public Digital Humanities
The PUBLIC DIGITAL HUMANITIES is built around networked learning
communities, not repositories for content, and its scholarly product is a
conversation, one that engages a broad public while blurring the
distinction between research, teaching, service, and outreach.
28. The work of the Public Digital Humanities is “not about us, or for us.”
~ Steven Lubar, "Applied? Translational? Open? Digital? Public?
New models for the humanities”
Photo by flickr user 仁仔 何
29. “We are the true ‘small pieces’ of the Web, and we are loosely joining
ourselves in ways that we’re still inventing”
~ David Weinberger, Small Pieces Loosely Joined: a Unified Theory of the Web
Photo by flickr user Dirigentens
30. “We often ignore the best resource for informed change, one that is
right in front of our noses every day—our students, for whom the
most is at stake.”
~ Martin Bickman, “Returning to Community and Praxis”
Photo by flickr user tai chang hsien
31. The Public Digital Humanities starts with humans, not technologies
or tools, and its terrain must be continuously co-constructed.
Photo by flickr user henry grey