Thanks, Taylor & Sarah, for your suggestions. A few I had:
Collaboration
The following readings take up the concept and practices of “collaboration,” which — as Taylor notes below — is one of the principles that, according to Spiro and others, defines dh.
- Lynne Siemens et al., “’It challenges members to think of their work through another kind of specialist’s eyes’: Exploration of the Benefits and Challenges of Diversity in Digital Project Teams”
- Bethany Nowviskie, “On Compensation”
- Bethany Nowviskie, “Monopolies of Invention”
Participatory Culture & The Social Life of Information
These two readings are not about digital humanities as such. But they both help map the critical landscape that surrounds our term, “digital humanities community.” Jenkins — an incredibly influential and well-known scholar — can help us think about the ways in which digital humanities projects engage such participatory experiences (e.g., the crowdsourcing projects we have discussed). Brown & Duguid write about the social contexts that shape “information.” Although they focus mainly on corporate culture, their insights about the structures of/for information would help us map similarities and differences in the academic context.
- Henry Jenkins, “Democratizing Television? The Politics of Participation” from Convergence Culture
- John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, from The Social Life of Information (“Introduction, “Limits to Information,” and “Learning — in Theory and in Practice”). I’ll post the pdfs on Monday [update: the pdf is now linked]. In the meantime, you can review the work overall here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Life_of_Information
Along these lines, it could be interesting to experiment with Scripto or From the Page, CommentPress, Commons in a Box, or other tools.
