{"247461":{"#nid":"247461","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Faculty Panel: Open Access and the Digital Humanities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis session will be streamed live at:\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/GTOA2013\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;http:\/\/bit.ly\/GTOA2013\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOpen to everyone; intended to be of interest to Humanists. Speakers include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. Ian Bogost\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhD, Professor, Distinguished Chair, School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Ian Bogost is a scholar, author, and game designer. He is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC. As an author, he writes about video games as a medium with many uses. As a game designer, he makes games for political, social, educational, and artistic uses. Bogost is author or co-author of seven books:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bogost.com\/books\/unit_operations.shtml\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EUnit Operations\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bogost.com\/books\/persuasive_games.shtml\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPersuasive Games\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bogost.com\/books\/video_computer_system.shtml\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERacing the Beam\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bogost.com\/books\/newsgamesbook.shtml\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENewsgames\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bogost.com\/books\/how_to_do_things_with_videogam_1.shtml\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHow To Do Things with Videogames\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bogost.com\/books\/alien_phenomenology_1.shtml\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAlien Phenomenology\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0262018462\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;camp=1789\u0026amp;creative=390957\u0026amp;creativeASIN=0262018462\u0026amp;linkCode=as2\u0026amp;tag=bogost-20\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003E10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. Bogost\u0027s video games cover topics as varied as airport security, disaffected workers, the petroleum industry, suburban errands, and tort reform. His games have been played by millions of people and exhibited internationally. His game\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.bogost.com\/games\/game_poems.shtml\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA Slow Year\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a collection of game poems for Atari, won the Vanguard and Virtuoso awards at the 2010 Indiecade Festival.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. TyAnna Herrington\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EJD, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Literature Communication and Culture, Georgia Tech\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETyAnna Herrington, JD, PhD, is a Professor at Georgia Tech. She specializes in intellectual property law and in international technical communication. Her books are in law and her articles treat issues in law and international communication, focused on digital learning. She serves on ATTW\u0027s Executive Committee as its Information Officer, is an Executive Advisory Board Member for CPTSC\u0027s Programmatic Perspectives, and is a member of the CCCC\u0022s Intellectual Property Task Force. Herrington served as a member of Georgia\u0027s State Board of Regents Copyright Committee and has delivered keynote, featured, and plenary addresses in venues including the NINCH Copyright Town Hall, CCCC, and CPTSC.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERobin Wharton \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EPhD, Instructor, English, Georgia Regents University, and Partner Board Member, Hybrid Pedagogy\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERobin Wharton holds a law degree (1999), and a PhD in English with an emphasis in late-medieval English law and literature (2009) from the University of Georgia. She was formerly a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow and then Assistant Director of Writing and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. At present, she is a collaborator on the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.library.gatech.edu\/openaccess\/content\/www.hocclevearchive.org\u0022\u003EHoccleve Archive\u003C\/a\u003E, a collection of resources related to study of the fifteenth-century London-based poet Thomas Hoccleve and his works, a co-founder and director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.library.gatech.edu\/openaccess\/content\/www.calliopeinitiative.org\u0022\u003ECalliope Initiative\u003C\/a\u003E, a non-profit organization building open source tools for project- and process-oriented multimodal composition pedagogy, and the Production Editor at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.hybridpedagogy.com\/\u0022\u003EHybrid Pegagogy\u003C\/a\u003E, a digital journal of learning, teaching, and technology. An advocate for open access and open source development and distribution models, her interdisciplinary scholarship--in digital humanities and pedagogy, critical theory, and medieval studies--considers the complex discursive exchange among literary, academic, and legal modes of cultural production.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EModerators:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EStewart Varner\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDigital Scholarship Coordinator, Emory University\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStewart Varner is the Digital Scholarship Coordinator at Emory University\u0027s Robert W. Woodruff Library. He works with scholars who want to incorporate technology into their research and is particularly interested in building a robust role for libraries in Open Access digital publishing. He joined the staff at Emory in 2010 after working for three years as a graduate student fellow in the Beck Center for Electronic Texts. He earned his doctorate in American Studies from Emory\u0027s Institute for the Liberal Arts and his MLIS from the University of North Texas.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBrian Croxall\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EDigital Humanities Strategist and Lecturer of English, Emory University\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBrian Croxall is Digital Humanities Strategist and Lecturer of English at Emory University. In the new Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS), he helps carry out an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-sponsored grant. Along with developing and managing digital scholarship projects in collaboration with faculty, graduate students, librarians, and developers, he teaches courses on digital humanities, media studies, and American literature. He has co-edited an issue of Neo-Victorian Studies on steampunk, is co-editing a book on the same subject, is a cluster editor at #alt-academy, and is a writer for the group blog ProfHacker.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoin Dr. Ian Bogost, Dr. TyAnna Herrington, and Dr. Robin Wharton of Georgia Tech, and moderators Dr. Stewart Varner and Dr. Brian Croxall of Emory as they address some of the unique benefits and challenges of Open Access in the Humanities.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Join Dr. Ian Bogost, Dr. TyAnna Herrington, and Dr. Robin Wharton of Georgia Tech, and moderators Dr. Stewart Varner and Dr. Brian Croxall of Emory as they address some of the unique benefits and challenges of Open Access in the Humanities."}],"uid":"27508","created_gmt":"2013-10-21 10:24:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:05:21","author":"Tearanny Street","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-10-25T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2013-10-25T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-10-25T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-10-25 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-10-25 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-10-25 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47240","name":"Georgia Tech Library"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"11209","name":"library events"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:%20fred.rascoe@library.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EFred Rascoe\u003C\/a\u003E, Scholarly Communication Librarian\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Library\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}