This media studies scholar at UC Irvine has posted her published work on Tumblr. I am wondering about the legality of that, what kind of agreements you have with the periodicals you get published in: https://catliu.tumblr.com/

Apparently “Tumblr feminism” is a thing: https://postmanconference.org/conferences/2013-para-sites/program/thelandersson/

My tumblr is gpaigewelch, and my course tumblr is writing-101genderandspace

I have also been thinking about how much work it is to maintain a social media presence (let alone a compelling one that meets the demands and social codes of each platform) and how that does or does not contribute to what counts as our professional work.

Whoa! So I googled “digital humanities” to find cool stuff to populate our new blog, but I was not expecting to find this! It’s the Journal of Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed open access journal that is on its fourth issue! I think it could be a potential source of material for us to think with, with articles like “Academic History Writing and its Disconnects“. This article is touching on a bunch of issues we talked about in our last meeting, like the death of books and the possibilities and limitations of OCR for historians. Here is a little excerpt:

 At the same time we are confronted by a profound intellectual challenge that addresses the very nature of the historical discipline. This transition from the ‘book’ to something new fundamentally undercuts what historians do more generally. When one starts to unpick the nature of the historical discipline it is tied up with the technologies of the printed page and the book in ways that are powerful and determining. Footnotes, post-Rankean cross referencing, and the practises of textual analysis are embedded within the technology of the book, and its library.

I was searching on internet for images that might be appropriate headers for our Digital History Working Group website, and I came across this page. It is an online book called Digital Timepiece by Nathaniel Haefner, which is organized around different ways of thinking about time and storytelling. I’m happy to change it if someone has an image they prefer. But it is an appropriate beginning to our endeavor, no?