Bringing the human factor to digital humanities

Posted on October 14, 2012 by catherine.fahey

I’ve noticed that most of the DH conversations center around how the humanities can use and benefit from  technology. I’d like to discuss how technology can benefit from/be influenced by the humanities.

Some ideas/questions:

  • Forums,  tribes and online friendships
  • Cyberbullying, trolling, stalking- ways to prevent, ways to cope, ways to respond
  • Social mores and customs online
  • The Academic Twitterazzi – the role of twitter/liveblogging/social media at conferences
  • Privacy, freedom of speech, censorship
  • To expand on the workshop Building an academic and professional persona online – what do our online identities say about us as people. What do we reveal and what do we keep private
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About catherine.fahey

I'm an information literacy librarian; my departments are English & Communications. I teach students how to research Shakespeare and social media, how to use Facebook for job hunting, and how to locate information in a print index. I'm interested in information literacy, media literacy, epic poetry, science fiction, mythology, the idea of the self, visual theory, and video games. My favorite Angry Bird is they yellow one.