Category: Digital Arts & Humanities

Why Photographs Lose Their Attributions

After reading my essay Web Writing and Citation: The Authority of Communities, a colleague wondered how my arguments about online communities having their own sets of expectations for crediting sources applied to sites such as Imgur where photographs are often…

#DigiWriMo Multimodal Story

Found a floating cooler full of cassette tapes oceanside. Wonder if I can find a player, or if any of them still work. #digiwrimo #promptone — Dr. Elizabeth Switaj (@EKSwitaj) November 3, 2014 Found an old tape recorder at physical…

#Prompt for #DigiWriMo

write a villanelle aubade before the sun rises—write the screams of your alarm clock in trochaic hexameter—not hexamater, even if you curse waking write a sestina on being on time stanza one: work stanza two: meetings stanza three: more meetings…

Human Observation Report TDC498

written for The Daily Create 506 Today when the upright human left, it took the small furry human with it, and I took the opportunity to examine more closely the paraphernalia the upright human uses for morning worship. They were…

The Best Plan

written for today’s ds106 Daily Create. If I were given a do-over for today, I have to say that I’d wake up earlier, start writing sooner and write and write and write. (But I’d probably sleep later and eat more chocolate.)…