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Transcript of American Studies
American Studiesat the Digital Crossroads
Digital Scholarship and Publication Professionalization and Formal Training Scholarship in the Cultural Disciplines and
the Digital
Conversation-to-Date: Three Threads
American Studiesat the Digital Crossroads
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
The main website: keywords.nyupress.org Our blog: depts.washington.edu/forums Our wiki:
depts.washington.edu/keywords/wiki
Our Three Locations
keywords_bloghosts discussion around keyword-related events
keywords_wikitargets classes and working groups
keywords_website
… keywords from the book
updates to all three sites—and new features …
… student-produced keywords from the
wiki… and resources for
instructors:syllabi
assignmentsinstructor chat
touring the collaboratory
touring the collaboratory
touring the collaboratory
touring the collaboratory
Synthetic essays that track and cohesively narrate keyword usage across course texts.
+ Final Products (1)
touring the collaboratory
Multi-layered essays that parse keyword-usage by course texts and offer deep content by linking across the wiki and other online resources
+ Final Products (2)
touring the collaboratory
Archive of course texts paired with student analysis tuned to multiple meanings of course keyword(s)
+ Final Products (3)
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
survey50 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
What digital technologies have you been trained in?
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%