I have been neglecting posting links to other articles (“scribbles”), but here is a short (ok, not so short) round up (I briefly comment at the end as well) of a very interesting week of blog posts about deciding whether or not to go to graduate school and proposed reforms to graduate school. Larry Cebula’s [...]
Archive | November, 2011
The Master Switch
by Brian Sarnacki on November 17, 2011 in Digital Humanities
[This post is a reading reflection written for UNL's Digital Humanities Seminar. This week's reading was Tim Wu's The Master Switch.] Tim Wu contextualizes the Internet in communication technology’s long history of optimism. Like Lawrence Lessig and Evgeny Morozov, Wu suggests the free and open Internet may not always remain that way. With increasingly powerful [...]
Four Stages of DH
by Brian Sarnacki on November 10, 2011 in Digital Humanities
[This mostly serious look at the four stages of DH reflect my own journey in learning about the digital humanities/digital history. The experiences of others may vary and I reserve the right to add stages at a later date.] Practical-ist You see DH as another way to make yourself stand out as a job applicant. [...]
The DH Delusion
by Brian Sarnacki on November 10, 2011 in Digital Humanities
[Brian goes to a dark place after reading Evgeny Morozov's The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom and Jaron Lanier's "Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism" for UNL's Digital Humanities Seminar.] Evgeny Morozov examines the Internet’s relation to authoritarian states, arguing there is a Western misconception, rooted in the Cold [...]
Code Version 2.0
by Brian Sarnacki on November 3, 2011 in Digital Humanities
[This post is a reading reflection written for UNL's Digital Humanities Seminar. This week's reading was Lawrence Lessig's Code Version 2.0.] Facebook and Google have a hand most businesses and nearly every person’s lives. Seeing the interplay of commerce and the law is not a difficult task for a reader in 2011. While code and [...]
