A Literacy of Building: Making in the Digital Humanities

In 2011, Steven Ramsay caused controversy when he gave his provocative talk at the Modern Language Association: “Who’s In and Who’s Out.” Ramsay claimed, “Digital Humanities is about building things.” While scholars criticized Ramsay for being exclusionary, they ironically ignored the fact that buil...

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1. Verfasser:	BILL ENDRES
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Applied arts Applied sciences Architecture Arts Behavioral sciences Buildings Collection management Communication skills Communications Communities Computer engineering Computer science Computer software Digital asset management Digital humanities Digitization Discourse communities Document digitization Education Formal education Historical methodology Historiography History History instruction History of science History of technology Human societies Humanities instruction Imaging Information science Institutional buildings Language skills Library management Library science Literacy Pedagogy Reading Social groups Social sciences Sociology
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Zusammenfassung:	In 2011, Steven Ramsay caused controversy when he gave his provocative talk at the Modern Language Association: “Who’s In and Who’s Out.” Ramsay claimed, “Digital Humanities is about building things.” While scholars criticized Ramsay for being exclusionary, they ironically ignored the fact that building has been generally excluded from tenure and promotion guidelines in the humanities. Building faces the challenge of not being writing. However, the commonalities between writing and building far exceed their differences. The present circumstances that exclude building from institutional rewards, especially tenure and promotion, have more to do with the institutionalization of scholarship. As Kenneth Burke