Digital Humanities address changing nature of knowledge in seminar featured on Second Life - Jan 2009
After much economic gloom and confusion in 2008, the new year is a good time to reflect on an increasingly vital issue for universities: The future of knowledge in the digital age.
Under an initiative sponsored by a $2.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation two years ago, faculty, postdoctoral fellows and guest scholars from more than 10 departments are exploring new research methodologies and disciplinary paradigms in the humanities. On Jan. 5, they met for the latest in a series of “Media, Technology, and Culture” seminars that offers vital insights from experts in the evermore collaborative fields of media studies, game theory and literary and cultural studies.
In a relatively new twist to Internet-enabled distance learning, the “Humanities Tools in Digital Contexts” seminar was also featured on Second Life (SL), the San Francisco-based 3-D metaverse that some call the campus of the future. Numerous universities, colleges and schools offer courses or educational programs in the digital realm, where they own virtual “islands.” Their representatives communicate with people in “real life” through cartoonlike virtual characters known as their “avatars,” or online alter-egos.
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