About
The Literature.Culture.Media (LCM) Center continues the work in digital humanities and new media begun in 1998 by the Transcriptions project. Our overall goal is “to build a working paradigm of a humanities department of the future that takes the information revolution to its heart as something to be seriously learned from, wrestled with, and otherwise placed in engagement with the lore of past or other societies with their own undergirding technologies and media.” True to the initial vision, then, LCM endeavors to be flexible, responsive, and creative.
Currently, three areas of inquiry structure our activities:
- Electronic literature beyond the screen (new reading formats; locative and mobile media; alternate reality games)
- Media ecologies (high-tech trash; media environments’ visualizations of climate and landscape; ALife; biomedia)
- IT and the so-called new economy (theorizations of the network society, information society, and digital capitalism)
LCM will host lectures, conferences, and other events that will be of general interest to the English deparment and to colleagues across the university. Watch the LCM blog for announcements and coverage of Center-related news. Please feel free to contact us with any ideas you have about our themes and activities.