Alyssa Arbuckle

The Value of Plurality in ‘The Network with a Thousand Entrances’

This contribution reflects on the value of plurality in the ‘network with a thousand entrances’ suggested by McCarty (http://goo.gl/H3HAfs), and others, in association with approaching time-honoured annotative and commentary practices of much-engaged texts. The question is how this approach aligns with tensions, today, surrounding the multiplicity of endeavour associated with modeling practices of annotation by practitioners of the digital humanities. Our work, hence, surveys annotative practice across its reflection in contemporary praxis, from the MIT annotation studio whitepaper (http://goo.gl/8NBdnf) through the work of the Open Annotation Collaboration (http://www.openannotation.org), and manifest in multiple tools facilitating annotation across the web up to and including widespread application in social knowledge creation suites like Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web annotation)

Teaching and Learning Multimodal Communications: A Collaborative Book

Motivated by the combination of knowing and doing in humanities curricula, this piece gives audiences a concrete sense of teaching and learning multimodal communications at the graduate level. Together with seven example prompts and multiple student responses to each, the piece also includes student analysis, reflection, and commentary on the processes of learning, composing, and circulating digital scholarship. In so doing, it demonstrates specific ways of using the authoring and publishing platform, Scalar, for collaborative research and writing in and beyond the classroom. The materials provided are drawn from a graduate seminar in the Department of English at the University of Victoria: “Digital Literary Studies: History and Principles.” Intended audiences for the piece include writing studies instructors, literary critics, cultural studies scholars, digital humanities and media studies practitioners, transmedia artists, and anyone who supports and facilitates university curricula and related infrastr...