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II. HASTAC: A History
Following the lead of Tara McPherson, I talk about different genres of humanities technology projects, and situate HASTAC in a taxonomy of projects that include: Electronic Literature, Humanities Computing Projects, Webportals, Cultural Informatics, and Multimodal Publishing.
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how about including hyperlinks to all HASTAC events? so, in this case, hyperlinking to Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, to technoSpheres, etc. then readers can get a sense of the richness of these events.
also, in general, i suggest linking as much as possible!
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the events that HASTAC has organized, or is currently organizing, are really inspired. that said, i strongly believe that engaging undergraduates in digital media and culture is so much more *productive* than engaging graduate students. i am not suggesting either – or. however, i would like to hear more about how peer-to-peer learning affects undergraduate digital literacy and digital creation.
conferences that attract faculty and graduate students already exist. what we need, i think, are massively distributed digital projects designed and built by massively distributed undergraduates.
Of course! We will clarify this. Thanks for pointing it out. What we meant to signal is that two students (or two hundred) working a few miles away or many thousand miles away can be working together. That propinquity is no longer the key to collaboration.
Why “massively distributed?” What is the advantage/benefit/value? Some of the most compelling uses of p2p among undergraduates that I have seen involved only two students.
One interesting way to situate HASTAC might be to name other initiatives that are allied with your work. How does the work of HASTAC relate, for example, to the Voice of the Shuttle?