Transcriptions/Literature.Culture.Media

A hotlist of books, articles, blog posts, and other texts related to Transcriptions/LCM research & teaching:

• Nicholson Baker, “A New Page: Can the Kindle really improve on the book?” The New Yorker (August 3, 2009)
• John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, “The Social Life of Documents,” First Monday (May 1996)
• Paul Duguid, “Inheritance and Loss: A Brief Survey of Google Books,” First Monday (August 2007)
• McKenzie Funk, “I Was a Chinese Internet Addict: A Tale of Modern Medicine,” Harper’s Magazine (March 2007)
• Anthony Grafton, “Future Reading: Digitization & Its Discontents,” The New Yorker (November 5, 2007)
• Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman, eds., A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Blackwell (2008)
• Bruce Sterling, “Eighteen Challenges in Contemporary Literature,” Beyond the Beyond (May 2009)

Video:

• “Medieval help desk“
• “Possible ou Probable” (short French film on the future of the book)
• “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us“

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 [...]