Comments on: Caught Between Expansiveness and the Desire to Draw Boundaries

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By: Katie Kaczmarek

Katie Kaczmarek — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:23:32 +0000

Chip, trying to figure out how to reach these new readers is the other half of what I’d eventually like to work on. I know Katherine Hayles at Duke University is working a lot on this topic, but I haven’t yet had the time to really delve into her work.

By: Jenny Ross

Jenny Ross — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:36:00 +0000

Thank you for the Prensky article. It gives me a bit of hope for myself — after all “digital immigrant” sounds so much better than “technologically impaired” or “old stick-in-the-mud”! Prensky’s idea that the generation of students we teach already thinks in this way is the biggest motive for me to learn more about DH. The question of how to communicate with them in the same language seems much more tangible than the loftier issues of the articles we read that attempt to define DH.

I agree that allowing failure to be ok is an essential aspect of DH, but I’m not sure that this actually makes it less intimidating. After all, I could say “I failed, but I learned some useful stuff in the process” but that wouldn’t mean much if my employer held a less flexible philosophy. (I’m still trying to figure all this out.)

By: Chip Cobb

Chip Cobb — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:17:44 +0000

Hey, Katie. I haven’t had a chance yet to read through the article you linked to on the different reading processes of modern students (I’ll get to it ASAP, though, because it sounds really interesting). That said, your mention of it got me wondering: if we want to teach students to engage with texts and to question them actively as they read (after all, how many of us read with a pen in hand to scribble obscenities and underline key passages?), how do we do that if we understand that today’s students may have a different reading process? In order to engage with texts in the same way, would they feel more comfortable having a keyboard (or a touch screen) to annotate a text as they read, rather than a pen? Again, I’ll get to the article as soon as I can–maybe it speaks to these concerns–but the ideas were floating around in my head while reading your post.

By: Courtney Wells

Courtney Wells — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 04:02:29 +0000

Katie, you bring up some very interesting points. As I stated in my introduction, I want to work in publishing and the article you posted sounds like it offers some very good insight on how DH is changing that world. Additionally, I think it’s great that even though we may see tweeting or blogging as something to pass the time or a fun hobby, we are somehow contributing to a bigger project. Maybe we won’t leave impressive ruins like the Mayans, but we will have sufficiently detailed the minutia of our lives for future DHers to dissect.