Wednesday, April 15, 2009

'I pass so poorly with paper and types' – The Making and Remaking of Walt Whitman in a Digital Age"

I found this lecture online (the news items for 4/9/2009 gives links to the movie of the talk) over at the University of Nebraska's Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. In the Quicktime movie, Professor Kenneth Price talks about the democratic ideals of Walt Whitman, and how new and electronic media allow greater democratization of his work - particularly via the Walt Whitman Archive, a digital scholarship program that Price and Ed. Folsom direct.
Interesting talk that raises some equally interesting points about the existence and future potential for the phrase "digital humanities" to be more than just a trendy neologism.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey Jennifer-

Haven't watched the video yet, but there's a great essay by Price in which he discusses how the Archive ended up open basically by accident.