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Nicky Agate uploaded the file: The Invisible Labor of Minority Professors to
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoAuthor: Audrey Williams June
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Nicky Agate uploaded the file: “Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence to
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThe rhetoric of “excellence” is pervasive across the academy. It is used to refer to research outputs as well as researchers, theory and education, individuals and organizations, from art history to zoology. But does “excellence” actually mean anything? Does this pervasive narrative of “excellence” do any good? Drawing on a range of sources we…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic How might you employ/deploy the process & ideas of the first HuMetricsHSS event? in the discussion
HuMetricsHSS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoAt the first HuMetricsHSS workshop, we asked participants how they might take the process and ideas generated there back into their own professional and institutional contexts. This thread is for feedback, ideas, and reporting back!
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Mariana S. Ou deposited Transcription of Interview with Wes White, Library Development Officer, Canada Water Library in the group
CityLIS on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoTranscription of Interview with Wes White, Library Development Officer, Canada Water Library. This interview is part of ‘The Public libraries of London’ collection of interviews with library staff members from public libraries of London. The collection can be accessed through the Layers of London website, via:…[Read more]
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Mariana S. Ou deposited Transcription of Interview with Wes White, Library Development Officer, Canada Water Library on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months ago
Transcription of Interview with Wes White, Library Development Officer, Canada Water Library.
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Mariana Strassacapa Ou changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months ago
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Nicky Agate's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months ago
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Brian Croxall deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities, Fall 2017 syllabus in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis syllabus was my fourth version of a course aimed at introducing the digital humanities at an undergraduate level. The course was organized around four projects, each of which was oriented by a theoretical reading: mapping a novel; text analysis with archival sources; creating composite images from digital films; and text digitization,…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities, Fall 2017 syllabus in the group
Digital Pedagogy on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis syllabus was my fourth version of a course aimed at introducing the digital humanities at an undergraduate level. The course was organized around four projects, each of which was oriented by a theoretical reading: mapping a novel; text analysis with archival sources; creating composite images from digital films; and text digitization,…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities, Fall 2017 syllabus in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis syllabus was my fourth version of a course aimed at introducing the digital humanities at an undergraduate level. The course was organized around four projects, each of which was oriented by a theoretical reading: mapping a novel; text analysis with archival sources; creating composite images from digital films; and text digitization,…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities, Fall 2017 syllabus in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis syllabus was my fourth version of a course aimed at introducing the digital humanities at an undergraduate level. The course was organized around four projects, each of which was oriented by a theoretical reading: mapping a novel; text analysis with archival sources; creating composite images from digital films; and text digitization,…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall's profile was updated on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months ago
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Brian Croxall deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities, Fall 2017 syllabus on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months ago
This syllabus was my fourth version of a course aimed at introducing the digital humanities at an undergraduate level. The course was organized around four projects, each of which was oriented by a theoretical reading: mapping a novel; text analysis with archival sources; creating composite images from digital films; and text digitization,…[Read more]
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Feedback and Feature Requests on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoWe are about to embark on a UX audit of MLA Commons and would love to know what you like (and, more importantly, don’t like) about the platform. Help us make the Commons a more user-friendly place to be!
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I’ve used Commons a lot. The things I think are best:
* many privacy & participation options for different types of pages;
* ability to upload documents and files for sharing; discussion boards;
* ability to get activity updates in digest form, so that it’s easy to tell when new things happen.Things that could be improved:
* make all MLA…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Think the academy has its values & incentives all wrong? in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoDear colleagues,
Forgive the intrusion, but I thought some members of this group might be interested in the following (and the HuMetrics team would certainly be interested in hearing the perspectives of those interested in writing pedagogies):
Are you concerned about the growing reliance on quantitative metrics to evaluate research—and p…[Read more]
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