Humanists go for status: Social Networking & Collaboration

Jason B. Jones / CCSUhttp://www.profhacker.comJason.b.jones@gmail.com / @jbj

Worlds of Wordcraft

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The saddest extension cord in higher ed

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Points for Discussion

• For most faculty (non-research schools; contingent), DH exacerbates local resource & isolation problems.

• Institution-based models of collaboration are 20thC, even if they are new to humanists.

• Social networks’ “loose conversational contexts” (danah boyd) provide lightweight models for collaboration.