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Dear list
members,
If you will be
attending the MLA Convention in Chicago at the end of this week, you may be
interested in participating in the "idea jam" session that I am
helping to facilitate.
Text-nology Idea Jam: Doing New & Old
Things
with Old & New Books
Special
Session
Saturday,
January 11th
5:15 to 6:20
pm
Chicago H,
Chicago Marriott
Organizer:
Tamara O’Callaghan (Northern Kentucky University)
Facilitators:
William
Germano (Cooper Union)
Andrea Harbin
(SUNY Cortland)
Clarissa Ai
Ling Lee (Duke University)
Katherine M.
Ruffin (Wellesley College)
Eleanor
Shevlin (West Chester University)
Sarah Werner
(Folger Shakespeare Library)
There are no
formal paper presentations. The session will be driven largely by audience
participation. Each facilitator will quickly propose an open-ended question
about how new technologies could/should (not) change the textual form and
reading experience of the “book.” Audience members will work in groups
with the facilitator whose question most intrigues them, and then each group
will present their findings to the rest of the room.
An idea jam is
rather like crowdsourcing in situ. For more details on the MLA event,
including brief outlines of the questions that will likely be proposed, please
see the following webpage:
http://www.nku.edu/~ocallaghant/IdeaJamMLA2014.htm
Hope to see some
of you there!
Andrea Harbin
(with apologies for cross-posting)