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Sarah Werner deposited Looking for a radically open digital landscape on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months ago
The digital landscape has the potential to open up rare books and manuscript libraries. If they used to be places where selected people were invited in to witness the display of special items, and those with sufficient expertise were allowed to use items under careful supervision, they now can become radically more open. More institutions are…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years ago
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Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
LLC 16th-Century English on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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Nearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner started the topic Shakespeare Forum sessions at MLA16 in the discussion
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Shakespeare Forum has put together two sessions at this MLA: a Friday morning panel on “Scales of Time and Shakespeare” and a Saturday afternoon roundtable discussion of “Pedagogical Shakespeare: Text, Performance, and Digitization.” More details on both can be found at our new blog, https://shakespeare.mla.hcommons-staging.org/
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Vimala C. Pasupathi's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months ago
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago
As many of you will have heard, Resolution 2014-1 got 60% of the votes cast but did not reach the minimum of 10% of the total membership required (by a recent rule) in order to be officially adopted. Thank you to all who voted. I attach an op-ed by David Lloyd that to my mind gives a good sense of the meaning of the event:
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago
Thank you to everyone who voted on resolution 2014-1. As you will have heard, the resolution got 60% of the votes in its favor but did not pass because it did not reach the minimum of 10% of the membership required (by a recent rule). This still counts as a major victory. I attach an op-ed by David Lloyd:
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago
Prove participatory citizenship is still alive! Vote on the MLA resolution! Last 8 hours!
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago
Please forgive me for being exceedingly tedious on the subject of the vote, which ends at midnight tonight. The bar of 10% of the membership that resolutions have to pass is a relatively new one, and arguably not a good one, given the general indifference (which those who proposed it probably were counting on). But it is still possible to prove…[Read more]
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