- Such DFW. Very Orwell. So Doge. Wow. – An interesting look at SWE on the digital cusp. – (DH language languagechange )
- New Liberal Arts // Snarkmarket & Revelator Press – Collection of short pieces – call them discussion starters – on redefining the lib arts as digital. PDF, and the html is here: http://snarkmarket.com/nla/new-liberal-arts.html – (book culture DH libed libarts2.0 )
- Works Cited: Humanities scholarship is incredibly relevant, and that makes people sad. – Interesting defense of more or less traditional humanities study in part by bringing in a mindset from trendy DH. The argument suggests that DH might be a way of dragging/sneaking humanities values (which – let's face it – challenge the capitalistic credo) back into the classroom. – (humanities DH )
- Fear and Loathing of the English Passive – Hey, FYC faculty. Get a read on. It ain't gramma you wanna call into play, it's rhetoric. What we see here is that, like many critiques of style (ponderous, heavy, lively! active! wonderful!) the critique of The Passive is a critique of rhetorical choices, not grammatical ones. Your move. – (linguistics Linguistic_change )
Tag Archives: languagechange
bookmarks for December 20th, 2012 through December 21st, 2012
- David Crystal – Texts and Tweets: myths and realities – YouTube – Tweeting means culture goes to hell in a hand basket? Yeah, ok. You might want to consider the evidence. – (twitter languagechange en3177 linguistics )
- Online photo sharing as harbinger of irrelevance | Abject – Argument for findability and the movement towards walled gardens. Or something like that. – (findability flickr oer openaccess opencontent )
- Klout in the Classroom: A Valuable Grading Tool? – WTF! Can you be less professional? "Like Klout, marketing simulation software provides a grade based on an unknown algorithm. Bacile explained that the software uses hundreds of differently weighed factors that are not revealed to its users. “The algorithm isn’t transparent and is subject to change,” he said. “But it’s a useful service that demonstrates that the world is full of uncertainty.” " – (social_media )