Open THAT!
March 30-31, 2012 – Brigham Young University (Joseph F. Smith Building)
Registration is now closed; however, please contact us if you are interested in participating yet missed the deadline, as we might be able to find space.
Discussing why, where, when, how, and how much “openness” matters in Digital Humanities
[Open: Affording unobstructed passage or view; Not shut or closed; Accessible to all; Free from limitations, boundaries, or restrictions: Not legally repressed (A mashup of selected definitions from The Free Dictionary)]
Join us for Rocky Mountain THATCamp, a free, user-generated “unconference” that brings together researchers, practitioners, technologists, and scholars working in the digital arts, humanities, and technologies.
Technology is reshaping the reading and writing tools and spaces in which “texts” are created, stored, distributed, and consumed. Changes related to the digitization of information, the democratization and commodification of participation, and the modification and distribution of creative works are challenging extant notions of authority, authorship, creativity, education, intellectual property rights, publication, and tenure and promotion. This “unconference” brings researchers, practitioners, technologists, and scholars working in the digital arts, humanities, and technologies together to identify and explore the possibilities that openness offers for working, playing, living, and learning in the 21st Century.
During the conference, you’ll collaborate with colleagues to experiment with an ontology of openness as you:
- experience the creative possibilities of open access, open APIs, open data initiatives, open courseware, open education, open peer review, open publishing, and open source tools
- explore the implications of phenomenon such as crowdsourcing, mashups, and transliteracy for communicating, collaborating, and creatively contributing to work in the Digital Humanities
- engage with questions about the social and cultural impact of the changing nature of reading and writing spaces and related issues of access, authority, authorship, intellectual property laws, participation, privacy, and publication
- envision new possibilities for working, playing, living and learning in a 21st Century world
- enlarge/extend definitions of the Digital Humanities
- expand your perspectives on designing powerful learning environments and experiences in the humanities
Registration is now closed. For those who have registered, please visit the participants’ blog to start talking about ideas for sessions.
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