I am interested in integrating online digital media into the storytelling process for Journalism students. My focus is on applying Journalism skills using video, audio, photography, interactive design and social media tools. Identifying the qualities of each media and applying them appropriately to individual stories.

However, not everyone is interested in such a narrow focus, so I’d like to share ideas and experiences on the topic of digital media/social media storytelling in general, as well as in depth.

The production skills for these tools are quite dense and I want to present them in such a way that students aren’t unevenly burdened with the technical process at the expense of the storytelling process.

Coming from a school that is fairly traditional when it comes to scholarly work, some of our faculty express interest in DH projects but often do not end up pursuing these projects or work on them as side projects in addition to the traditional scholarship they must do for appointment and merit-based review. Generally it seems as though the departments are not opposed to DH projects, they simply won’t evaluate them during reviews because they don’t consider them comparable to publications or don’t know how to evaluate them. I think it would be valuable to have a conversation about how to approach DH projects in this type of environment, specifically:

• Balancing DH projects with other scholarly work,
• Approaches to gaining department support of DH projects,
• Best practices in evaluating DH projects during the review process.

It might also be useful to discuss how IT and library staff can help to facilitate this process.

As exciting as new university DH Centers are, as much as they open up new methods of scholarship, I wonder how much their reach extends beyond universities to K-12 education and the general public.  How have digital humanities projects involved our K-12 students?  Our senior citizens? Our local government?  How can university DH centers, museums, and public libraries work together to include those outside university walls?  Should we / could we crowdsource geneaology, create internships for high school students, capture disappearing local history, create a TEI MOOC, more?  What sort of projects like this already exist?

I see some overlap with the Techno Haves and Have Nots session, in that I’m interested in how digital humanities projects are a vehicle by which the intellectual methods of the humanities can be brought to all that are interested (regardless of digital savvy or place in university.)

I’d like to have a conversation about how we plan for the future of digital humanities projects, especially the web-based components presenting contextualized data. I’m concerned about sustainability when we lose so many on-line resources each year. How can we build a reliable scholarly body of digital work when we risk losing the foundations?

My own work is focused on building a platform that allows reliable citation: citations that point to a given version of a resource, that reproduce that version of the resource, and do so for a long time.

I’d also love to demonstrate and discuss the code I’ve been working on.

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

Clarissa Ceglio has a thoughtful post on this site that doesn’t seem to have made it to the session proposal page.  Clarissa writes:

One of the items I’d like to propose for discussion among fellow graduate students attending THATCamp NE is: what are your needs and interests regarding academic preparation to pursue work in the digital humanities field? This informal input, plus any blogging on the subject that fellow campers might be inclined to pursue on the topic, will be used to supplement a session at the American Studies Association Conference called, “Digital Dimensions of Graduate Education in American Studies.” Also, because digital humanities work is highly collaborative, I’d like to propose a session in which attendees can share their ideas about how to work together on project teams more effectively.

I agree with Clarissa but think graduate trainers would be interested as well in both topics.