HASTAC Diary - #3 MLA (1/1)

Reporting from the conference of the Modern Language Association, December 2008. My commentary focuses on the MLA's digital dimension and the use of http://twitter.com by attendees.

Matthew K. Gold (http://mkgold.net/ ) and John Jones (http://www.hastac.org/blog/1516 ) appear in the video.

Song: http://allmyinternetfriends.com

Videoblog for HASTAC Scholars @ http://www.hastac.org/blog/1626

There is a 40 minute video of the panel "Humanities 2.0: Participatory Learning in an Age of Technology" at http://j-l-r.org/media/MLAsmall.mov

LINKS

The ACH Guide to Digital-Humanities Talks at the 2008 MLA Convention:
http://ach.org/mla/mla08/guide.html

Twitter panel notes:
http://www.hastac.org/node/1876

Cathy Davidson on MLA:
http://www.hastac.org/node/1866
http://www.hastac.org/node/1867
http://www.hastac.org/node/1868

Lisa Spiro, "Digital Humanities Sessions at MLA 2008":
http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/digital-humanities-session...

Matthew K. Gold, "The Rise of the Digital MLA":
http://mkgold.net/blog/2009/01/03/mla-2008-recap-part-1-the-rise-of-the-digit...

Chuck Tryon, "More Syllabus Scramble":
http://www.chutry.wordherders.net/wp/?p=2064

Sybil Vane, "Also Home":
http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2009/01/also-home.html

Negar Mottahedeh, "Give me some change AND I'll touch you":
http://negarpontifiles.blogspot.com/2009/01/give-me-some-change-and-ill-touch...

Amanda French, "Digital MLA 2008: An epistolary meta-narrative":
http://amandafrench.net/2009/01/12/digital-mla-2008-an-epistolary-meta-narrat...

The Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://chronicle.com/news/article/5728/mla-2008-the-last-roundup

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