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American Studies. at the Digital Crossroads. at the Digital Crossroads. American Studies. Conversation-to-Date: Three Threads. Digital Scholarship and Publication Professionalization and Formal Training Scholarship in the Cultural Disciplines and the Digital.
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American Studies at the Digital Crossroads
at the Digital Crossroads American Studies Conversation-to-Date: Three Threads Digital Scholarship and Publication Professionalization and Formal Training Scholarship in the Cultural Disciplines and the Digital
KEYWORDS Online • Collaborative in design and execution • Network of 64 scholars • Dialogue across analytical frameworks • Keywords in American Studies and cultural studies: as the vocabulary changes, so should the means through which we track their usage and the knowledge projects they enable. • “Keywords” themselves are reflective of new media and digital environments: metadata, search terms, and tags. Translation into a new medium of the blank pages at the back of Raymond Williams’s Keywords
KEYWORDS Online Our Three Locations • The main website:keywords.nyupress.org • Our blog:depts.washington.edu/forums • Our wiki:depts.washington.edu/keywords/wiki
keywords_blog hosts discussion around keyword-related events
keywords_wiki targets classes and working groups
keywords_website updates to all three sites—and new features … … keywords from the book • … student-produced keywords from the wiki • … and resources for instructors: • syllabi • assignments • instructor chat
touring the collaboratory + Final Products (1) Synthetic essays that track and cohesively narrate keyword usage across course texts.
touring the collaboratory + Final Products (2) Multi-layered essays that parse keyword-usage by course texts and offer deep content by linking across the wiki and other online resources
touring the collaboratory + Final Products (3) Archive of course texts paired with student analysis tuned to multiple meanings of course keyword(s)
wikis in the classroom • 360° Visibility • Different Modalities of Course Dialogue • Pushing the Classroom beyond Class Walls • Direct Engagement with Keyword-Formation • Critical Awareness of Public Knowledge • New Kinds of Collaboration and Knowledge Production
ad-hoc grad student survey 50 respondents: • Institutions: UW, Fordham, Brown, UT Austin, Michigan, Florida State, Duke, George Mason, MIT, Case Western, SMU • (Inter)disciplines: English, Rhet/Comp, American Studies, History, Anthropology, Special Education, Communications and Media Studies, Philosophy
Where did you learn your digital technology skills? • Additional Question: • If you use digital technologies in the classroom, do you feel that your department recognizes and rewards your efforts to teach students these new literacies? • No: 67 % • Yes: 33%