6.0676 Rs: Request for Outstanding Articles (2/45)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 15 Apr 1993 14:56:10 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0676. Thursday, 15 Apr 1993.


(1) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 18:05:23 CDT (23 lines)
From: Charles Ess <DRU001D@SMSVMA>
Subject: Re: 6.0665 Outstanding Articles in Humanities Computing

(2) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 22:32:15 EDT (22 lines)
From: Peter Graham 908-932-5908 Rutgers Univ. Libs.
Subject: Re: 6.0665 Outstanding Articles in Humanities Computing

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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 18:05:23 CDT
From: Charles Ess <DRU001D@SMSVMA>
Subject: Re: 6.0665 Outstanding Articles in Humanities Computing

In response to Willard's request...
I'd _strongly_ recommend Myron Tuman, ed., _Literacy Online: The Promise
(and Peril) of Reading and Writing with Computers_ (University of Pittsburgh
Press, 1992) for a series of articles on hypertext. The first three
chapters are by a venerable triumvirate of Hypertext -- Jay David Bolter,
Theodor Holm Nelson, and George Landow. The last is perhaps the best
single piece Landow has written on hypertext, and the three articles
together would work in a class as introduction to hypertext.
The remaining articles are equally excellent, and approach computers and
literacy from a variety of perspectives -- and virtually all refer back
at some point to hypertext. More generally, I'm relatively confident that
this collection will emerge as a kind of Bible for studies in computers,
literacy, and society, both for its virtues as an introductory text and
as a collection of what promise to be seminal articles in the field.

Hope this helps,
Charles Ess
Drury College
Springfield, MO 65802 USA
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 22:32:15 EDT
From: Peter Graham 908-932-5908 Rutgers Univ. Libs.
Subject: Re: 6.0665 Outstanding Articles in Humanities Computing (1/40)


Willard,
1. Raben, Joseph, "Computers and the Future of Humanistic Scholarship,"
_ACLS Newsletter_ V.2, n.2 (second series), Summer 1989, p. 6-7 -- a good
short piece that is a kind of caveat and warning about the need to involve
the humanists.

2. Douglas Greenberg [V-P ACLS], "Technology, Scholarship, and Democracy:
You Can't Always Get What You Want," _Educom_Review_ V. 27, no. 3, May/June
1992, p. 46-51; an eloquent statement of some needs.

Hope this helps.

--pg

Peter S. Graham / Rutgers University Libraries (908) 932-5908
169 College Avenue / New Brunswick, N. J. 08903 Fax: (908) 932-5888
3/30/93: Note CHANGE from graham@zodiac (tho still forwarded from there).