By Michael Hanrahan, Deborah L. Madsen
This number of unique essays discusses the consequences of the recent media for the construction, supply and overview of English reports. innovations during which electronic applied sciences can serve specialist, scholarly and pedagogical wishes in a very new means are explored within the context of the position and project of humanities within the digital age.
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Almost exactly ten years after I started it, Voice of the Shuttle was attacked on 31 January 2004, by a hacker through a method that exploited an underlying fault in database systems that are presented online. The attack was severe and technically challenging enough to merit “freezing” VoS (once it had been restored from backup) in an unchangeable state for three months. The difference between those several months and the several hours at most that a commercial operation would have tolerated is a measure of the difference between a corporate and educational enterprise.
What and how did people “know,” for instance, when cultures were dominated technically by orality, manuscripts, or print? 20 My suggestion, to conclude, is that while the humanities must begin to teach the technical skills needed to flourish in today’s society, such competence is most valuable, both to individuals and society, when wed to a full sense of the technical relationship between contemporary knowledge work and the history of human life. ” Notes 1. I follow Alexander R. Galloway (2004) in adopting an elastic usage of “protocol” in this essay.
While some pioneers have developed English-specific technologies, such as Daedalus, the overwhelming majority is generic to cyberspace. The technology in the classroom is something other than English in a disciplinary sense, yet its often inherently textual nature is intimately woven into the practice of English studies. One backformation in response to these classroom intrusions is to romanticize the preInternet classroom as a space where rapt students gaze upon a charismatic lecturer, mediated only by books and papers.