{"id":4848,"date":"2016-08-26T11:57:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T11:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/?p=4848"},"modified":"2016-08-26T11:57:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T11:57:56","slug":"digital-humanist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impedagogy.com\/wp\/blog\/2016\/08\/26\/digital-humanist\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Humanist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The quote above comes from a short interview<\/a> with\u00a0Laura Braunstein who is the Digital Humanities<\/a> and English Librarian at the Dartmouth College Library. \u00a0Something shifted a bit inside me as I read this, as if to say, “Maybe I am one of these folks,too.”<\/p>\n

Braunstein defines her role in this relatively new discipline as :<\/p>\n

Concierge\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Resource person<\/strong><\/p>\n

Collaborator<\/strong><\/p>\n

Promoter<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That definitely clicks for me. I have always considered myself a learning concierge. \u00a0I love the working class, democratic appeal of asking the question, “How can I help you?”<\/p>\n

I get no deeper satisfaction in my work as a writing instructor than providing directions to cool, clean, safe watering holes to my learners. And I am always looking for new resources, new oases.<\/p>\n

I love to collaborate. \u00a0That is something I have had to grow to love. \u00a0I think the best piece of advice I ever got on this subject was from Alan Levine: if you can’t answer a question after 20 minutes of trying, then find help. \u00a0To me this means finding a collaborator. A co-laborer. \u00a0This very broad definition of collaboration\u00a0is\u00a0one that I am comfortable with.<\/p>\n

A faculty colleague\u00a0who I really respect has asked me to collaborate with her graduate students in our Writing Center at Western Kentucky University as a digital humanist. She may not know that is what she asked for and is getting, but I am very grateful she asked and truly excited to co-labor with her and her students. \u00a0It is quite likely that\u00a0I will get more out of it than they will. \u00a0In fact, the selfish part of me counts on it.<\/p>\n

I am a promoter, too, just as Braunstein says she is. \u00a0I promote a point of view that is relentlessly pragmatic as regards tools: if it doesn’t help my co-laborers seek, make sense of, and share with better effect at that “intersection of technology and human culture” then fuggetaboutit.<\/a><\/p>\n

Identity mystifies me. \u00a0One minute I am a writing instructor and the next I am a digital humanist. \u00a0I\u00a0feel\u00a0a shift in stance.\u00a0And with this shift comes slightly new views, new blindspots, new desires. \u00a0If I am very lucky, I will be able to smoothly glide from one outlook\u00a0(instructor) to another (digital humanist).<\/p>\n

What a difference taking a few minutes in the morning to slip on a new set of goggles for viewing the world, a virtual set, programmed by me and not someone else.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Laura Braunstein<\/a> and her interviewer, Joshua Kim<\/a>.\u00a0I want to know more about Digital Humanities so I am going here<\/a>. \u00a0You come, too.<\/p>\n

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The quote above comes from a short interview with\u00a0Laura Braunstein who is the Digital Humanities and English Librarian at the Dartmouth College Library. \u00a0Something shifted a bit inside me as I read this, as if to say, “Maybe I am one of these folks,too.” Braunstein defines her role in this relatively new discipline as :
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