So ProPublica did, as part of a larger examination of the powerful, largely hidden effect of algorithms in American life.

Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities

Silicon Valley,”

have shared an institutional base in the same department is hard to overlook.

pushing the discipline toward post-interpretative, non-suspicious, technocratic, conservative, managerial, lab-based practice.

unavoidable

a space free from all the messiness of questions of identity and politics.

Thus,

reconfigured on the model of the tech startup, with public, private, and charitable funding in place of Silicon Valley venture capital.

Why these funders chose to do this remains something of a mystery. To find precise explanations, we would need to have access to private conversations and communications, though it is remarkable that such an epoch-making shift can be so lacking in explicit justification.

fetishizing

The implication is that in Digital Humanities, computer use is an end in itself.

a declaration would entail that the workers in IT departments of corporations such as Elsevier and Google are engaged in humanities scholarship.

It is telling that Digital Humanities, like Hirsch, and like Bowers, has found an institutional home at the University of Virginia.

Hirsch’s argument was foundational for the Common Core educational program favored by the political right.

producing forms of knowledge with less immediate economic application.

It unavoidably also suggests that other approaches in the humanities fit less well into the contemporary university, because the implied measure of success is economic.

SSHRC’s model of funding therefore complements the development of new models of intellectual work within the neoliberal university — accelerating the devaluation of older models of literary study.

rebranding of insecure campus employment as an empowering “alt-ac” career choice,

That link will also serve as the group home page

group home page. 

by visiting a link

FAFSA

This talk shifts between “how to use hypothesis” and “the ideological implications of the open web.”

Not much ends up living on past the intended delivery period of the course, and student access is lost once they go forward in their educational endeavors.

Crocodoc is a tool that allows annotations on online assignment submissions in Canvas

Closing large polling gaps in the time remaining is rare but certainly not unprecedented. In 1980, Jimmy Carter led Ronald Reagan in many polls this time of year. He went on to lose by 10 points.

Mr. Trump’s victory was an extraordinary moment in American political history: He is now on course to be the first standard-bearer of a party since Dwight D. Eisenhower, a five-star general and the commander of Allied Forces in Europe during World War II, who had not served in elected office.Mr. Trump, a real estate tycoon turned reality television celebrity, was not a registered Republican until April 2012. He has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats, including his likely general election opponent, Mrs. Clinton. And, at various points in his life, he has held positions antithetical to Republican orthodoxy on almost every major issue in the conservative canon, including abortion, taxes, trade, and gun control.

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You may also use the buttons on the upper right corner of the browser window to highlight or annotate this page using hypothes.is.

Or creating a program that will automatically publish all of a user’s annotations as bookmarks on their Known site, and maybe even cross-post those to Twitter.

What I think makes hypothes.is really interesting is the stream.

It’s similar to how Medium users can annotate and highlight blog posts on that platform, but you can use the hypothes.is plugin on any website.

Click on a green area in one of the interactive maps below. What are the reasons given for that neighborhood’s desirability? Click on a red area. What are the reasons given for its low ranking?

ientals,

Infiltration

mogeneous district of fine houses,

Thank you so much, President Falwell. God bless Liberty University.

To be right across the water from the headquarters of the United Nations, where I represented our country many times.

It's great to be at Trump Tower.

This campaign is not about Bernie Sanders.

‘Street Behavior’

Kahlil is absolutely a director who is influenced by Terrence Malick, and he really looks at film as a philosophical medium. And then you add Beyoncé.

smart publishers will focus on how their solutions can support and optimize student learning and achievements. They will see themselves as participants in the student outcomes business as well as in the publishing business.

marketing directly to students, teachers, and parents, bypassing traditional institutional sales channels.

Students, parents, and teachers are also increasing their role in purchasing decisions. They can choose from more options than in the past,

CIOs who are weighing in on the choice of learning platforms and software

urchasing often involves department heads, CIOs, and provosts, since the choices made can affect the entire school.

To succeed, they will need to fundamentally rethink their value propositions to take full advantage of the digital medium and consider the entire educational experience.

customization tools to “build your own textbook” from a variety of preexisting and newly created content

texts embedded in the online course

practical tools that supplement core instruction

unrequited

Prezi.

shrug off as teaching that requires no real effort and no real accountability.

When I am talking to Maha, I am only just barely (not)present with her, and in that just barely lies a sliver of wonder: I can be in Egypt and in my home office at the same time.

utilizing Twitter, Slack, Google Hangouts, and e-mail to communicate.

I wrote to Fisher Price to ask them to create dinosaur-themed toys.

Everyone, even the league, was having fun at Manziel’s expense.

The action overturns a Civil War-era provision in the state’s Constitution aimed, he said, at disenfranchising African-Americans.

education (Pearson, Cengage, McGraw-Hill)

“This class would be a lot less fun without Hypothes.is”

The benefits of such a cross-semester collaboration would have to be weighed against the value of having the new group of students approach the texts in a fresh form without being influenced by previous comments and markups.

At other times, students adopt a playful attitude to the text, riffing on a passage with creative improvisation.

described in general terms the kind of substantive and constructive annotations–questions, commentary, responses, close reading, contextual references–that would be required. This gave students the latitude to develop various forms of engagement with the texts.

We call this direct linking,

develop or support interfaces that put your readers in control of how they view the web instead of giving the control to the people with the servers.

It feels like a carefully crafted downtown, full of many different things but where building codes have enforced a standardization of design.

Or engage in a thought experiment. Imagine that every email you got during a day had different fonts, headings, layout, navigation, and scrolling bar behavior. Wouldn’t that be fun?

Only curated members of that community can make annotations,

the digital equivalent of your composition teacher’s red pen

Genius just has one layer,

“Currently, there isn’t even a means for Genius users to report abusive annotations, and there is certainly no way for creators to do so,”

what should a tech company with a mission to bring hordes of people into the business of making the web work better do when it’s service makes regular people less likely to speak up online?

these abilities – to link, annotate, change, summarize, copy, and share — these are the verbs of gardening.

I’m blown away by the vision of this every time I read this. But not because this has happened, but because it *hasn’t* happened.

If the Garden is exposition, the stream is conversation and rhetoric, for better and worse.

The first thing I do is “de-stream” the article.

The excitement here is in building complexity, not reducing it.

Instead of building an argument about the issue this attempts to build a model of the issue that can generate new understandings.

more motivated to read

“It takes class time,” Broussard says. “People can’t work their interface, or their battery’s dead, or they can’t find a plug.”

OER should be a system of connected copies.

products need a marketplace but living things need an ecosystem

SoundCloud, a platform for music composers that has tens of millions of original works is in trouble. If it goes down, how many of those works will survive? If history is a guide, very few. And the same will be true of Amazon’s new effort. People will put much effort into it, upload things and maintain them there, and then one day Amazon will pull the plug.

Bina48 Googles definitions like a hopeless best man writing a wedding toast. Webster’s Dictionary defines love; Google defines consciousness.

and loves the music of Naughty by Nature.

Let’s look at how I do things, maybe with a slightly less important decision, like the time I had to pick where to eat dinner in Seattle when I was on tour last year.

lesson plan and book report templates for Docs created by Reading Rainbow,

Rainbow

a news site

Say something thoughtful.

The team was encouraged to participate in all the conversations, because it is the founding team that determines how the software will behave, who set the tone, define the limits of what is tolerated on the service, which I wrote about in Wired.

birth

Web annotation tools have interesting implications for the future of citation processes as we move deeper into the digital age.

If you want to keep the feedback between you and your student private, you can set up a “group” for just you and the student. You could also use a tag (e.g. “grades”, “feedback”) to keep your feed organized.

If you want to move away from the “reading quiz” but still want to hold your students accountable for doing the reading assignments, requiring students to post a certain amount of comments can serve as a nice alternative.

Social media is all about appearance these days

The pictures we take with family, close friends or someone we love are more important than people themselves.

Now that more than 3 billion people can take to Facebook or Twitter or any number of platforms to debate anything, feedback is decidedly less revolutionary

Genius also allows for granular reactions—line-by-line breakdowns of how an argument is constructed, critiques of grammar or style, or fastidious analysis of statistics and supporting points. It seems designed to offer criticism in the most targeted, fastidious, pedantic way.

annotations are the next evolution of the comment section.

probability density function (PDF)

gaze of master

to comment directly on online resources

the involuntary plan

the involuntary plan,

the plague

First, a strict spatial partitioning: t

B.D. Riley’s Irish Pub at Mueller is being constructed just outside of Dublin, Ireland, disassembled, packed and transported to Austin, to be reassembled here.

Color was used to show which posts were read or unread by the student.

the clumsy and often linear arrangements often impede students from digesting each other’s comments and engaging in organic dialogue.

Taranissi

open annotation platform (Genius, Hypothesis

then someone else comes along and spews hatful, sexist, racist, or abusive garbage using one of these annotation platforms?

I watch as their networks expand, and as followers find one another as they voice ever more extreme opinions.

As an academic, I study social media and social movements, from the uprising in Egypt to Black Lives Matter

import

Genius isn’t the only tool that allows you to annotate what you read online. Other websites and browser extensions, like Scrible and Annotate It, allow users to write notes for themselves about what they find on the web. Some apps, like iAnnotate, allow users to annotate specific articles, while some allow users who are logged in to read what others are saying about a specific website.

the New York Times has the ability to limit the access Genius has to its content,

it’s the fact that annotations can be crowdsourced at all that’s at issue.

The problem is that, in addition to scrawling comments, notes, and background information in the margins of a given text, plenty of people also like to snark.

Modules

add content to a rich content editor.

at the account level,

This simple demo app lets the user pick from a list of fish pictures. The picture they choose will be inserted into the rich editor.

Canvas: Navigation Extension

These extensions are used to add functionality on top of that connection.

Generally the form is submitted via JavaScript to an iframe rendered on a page within the consumer, so the user does not have an extra step when trying to launch an app.

a consumer key and shared secret which are used to sign any messages passed between systems

some service that integrates with the LMS

identity assertion

(Creepier than Genius’s conceptual model — third-party annotations are, after all, as old as writing itself, and a long sought-after feature of the open web — is the idea that, as developer Vijith Assar puts it, “the content and mechanisms [of online annotations] could end up owned by a single for-profit tech startup.” Assar suggests an “open-source software project,” or something “handled by a standards body.”)

but the entire experience is "opt-in" already: You have to install the Genius browser extension, or click on a different URL, to access annotations, effectively achieving the same kind of silo and control that has traditionally existed on personal sites.

there’s also really nothing wrong with it, except in the “this feels weird” sense:

Generally, these two concerns are easily reconcilable, as the post and response would be silo-ed off from one another: the blog post on WordPress, the ensuing discussion in a separate forum, like Twitter. (Comments sections are an exception, but, crucially, no one is obligated by law or custom to include a comments section on his or her site.)

Helden

Heldon

How does the Genius become not just a Reddit that gets to go inside articles instead of being relegated to shit-talk them elsewhere?

effectively copy

But saying “this sucks” is not abuse, and to label it such cheapens the experience of every single person who’s ever been abused, harassed, stalked, or intimidated online.

When you put graffiti in the restroom stall, no one can use the toilet without having to see it.