Voices and Visions: A Survey of Science Fiction

This section of HUMN 4472, Studies in Culture, explores the genre of Science Fiction through the perspectives of its major visionaries in literature and film.

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Distributed DH

Hacking readymade components for Digital Humanities projects.

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AP Exam Reader

English Literature; Louisville, KY, June 2015.

The Liberal Arts Are Dead

Should we educators just face the music and accept the fact higher ed is now just for job training?

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Project Mailer is an on-going Digital Humanities endeavor that continues the legacy of Norman Mailer in the digital age. Project Mailer provides a hub for Society members to publish and collaborate on digital resources about American author Norman Mailer.

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Senior Seminar in New Media

What does it mean to be citizens of a digital world? Do we invent our technologies, or do they invent us? Welcome to New Media.

This seminar explores our inexorable movement from atoms to bits — from the centralized media landscape of the twentieth century, to that of the current bazaar of networked digital cultures.

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Writing for Digital Media

Writing for Digital Media (#WritDM) teaches writing skills for the digital age.

NMAC 3108 takes for its foundational premise that digital media differs from that of print in several key ways, and because of these differences, to use digital media successfully, writers must develop specific skills for its mastery. WritDM introduces students to these skills, provides them various projects to develop them, and teaches them to become fluent practitioners of new media. As this section of WritDM is a hybrid-online class.

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J. Michael Lennon

Biographer of Norman Mailer. I designed and maintain his official web site and wrote and edited his entry on Wikipedia.

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Recommended Apps for Higher Education

I’m often asked which applications I recommend for the college classroom, so I started a list. When considering an application for the college classroom, I weigh certain criteria.

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Digital Citation

A modest proposal for citing documents in the digital age. In a digital paradigm, links are probably the best way to cite research.

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The Liberal Arts Education

Does college teach us the difference between working to live and having a life?

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Readmill: A Review

Readmill brings reading into the age of social media. It has powerful potential for use in higher education.

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Norman Mailer Collection

Novelist, journalist, director, provocateur, pugilist — love him or hate him, Norman Mailer was an integral part of the culture of twentieth-century America. Posts about this American literary icon.

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Teaching Norman Mailer in the Cloud

This author discusses the “legacy power” of Norman Mailer, the challenge of carrying this legacy to the college classroom, and how he radically changed his pedagogy to teach “Norman Mailer’s ‘America’” to college undergraduates. Social media has had an important and drastic affect on communication online and face-to-face and social media may be used as an effective addition to the Humanities classroom in its use to revive undergraduate interest in old print culture, like that of “Norman Mailer’s ‘America.’”

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