- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
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1 The Origins of Social Media -
2 The Personal Computer and Social Media -
3 Daily Life in Cyberspace: How the Computerized Counterculture Built a New Kind of Place -
4 Community Memory: The First Public-Access Social Media System -
5 PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community -
6 alt.hypertext: An Early Social Medium -
7 Dictation: A Canadian Perspective on the History of Telematic Art -
8 Art and Minitel in France in the 1980s -
9 Rescension and Precedential Media -
10 Defining the Image as Place: A Conversation with Kit Galloway, Sherrie Rabinowitz, and Gene Youngblood -
11 IN.S.OMNIA, 1983–1993 -
12 Art Com Electronic Network: A Conversation with Fred Truck and Anna Couey -
13 System X: Interview with Founding Sysop Scot McPhee -
14 In Search of Identities in the Digital Humanities: The Early History of Humanist -
15 Echo -
16 MOOs and Participatory Media -
17 Hacking the Voice of the Shuttle: The Growth and Death of a Boundary Object -
18 Community Networking: The Native American Telecommunications Continuum -
19 The Art of Tele-Community Development: The Telluride Infozone -
20 Community Networking, an Evolution -
21 Cultures in Cyberspace: Communications System Design as Social Sculpture -
22 Crossing-Over of Art History and Media History in the Times of the Early Internet—with Special Regard to THE THING NYC -
23 Arts Wire: The Nonprofit Arts Online -
24 Electronic Literature Organization Chats on LinguaMOO -
25 trAce Online Writing Centre, Nottingham Trent University, UK -
26 Pseudo Space: Experiments with Avatarism and Telematic Performance in Social Media - A Conversation and Two Epilogues
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27 Expanding on “What Is the Social in Social Media?”: A Conversation with Geert Lovink -
28 Epilogue: Slow Machines and Utopian Dreams -
29 From Archaeology to Architecture: Building a Place for Noncommercial Culture Online - About the Authors
- Index
In Search of Identities in the Digital Humanities: The Early History of Humanist
In Search of Identities in the Digital Humanities: The Early History of Humanist
- Chapter:
- (p.227) 14 In Search of Identities in the Digital Humanities: The Early History of Humanist
- Source:
- Social Media Archeology and Poetics
- Author(s):
Julianne Nyhan
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
Humanist is an online, international seminar on digital humanities that was set up in 1987 by Willard McCarty. Since its inception, it has taken the form of an electronic mailing list and, within the context of the history of computing in the humanities, can be viewed as a proto-social media platform. Newer and slicker social media and crowd-driven platforms may have come (and, in some cases, gone) but Humanist has endured. Indeed, it arguably remains digital humanities’ most vital locus of questioning, imagining and reflecting on and about itself and its many interdisciplinary intersections. In this paper, the author discusses conversations conducted via Humanist in its inaugural year in order to identify and analyze references to disciplinary identity. After focusing on the contradictions that emerge, she reflects on what they might reveal about longer-term dynamics of Digital Humanities’ disciplinary formation and emphasizes the value of Humanist archives in such research.
Keywords: Social Media - History, Social Media - Digital Humanities, Electronic Mailing Lists, Humanist, Willard McCarty, Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities -- Disciplinary Identity, Archives - Value in Research
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
-
1 The Origins of Social Media -
2 The Personal Computer and Social Media -
3 Daily Life in Cyberspace: How the Computerized Counterculture Built a New Kind of Place -
4 Community Memory: The First Public-Access Social Media System -
5 PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community -
6 alt.hypertext: An Early Social Medium -
7 Dictation: A Canadian Perspective on the History of Telematic Art -
8 Art and Minitel in France in the 1980s -
9 Rescension and Precedential Media -
10 Defining the Image as Place: A Conversation with Kit Galloway, Sherrie Rabinowitz, and Gene Youngblood -
11 IN.S.OMNIA, 1983–1993 -
12 Art Com Electronic Network: A Conversation with Fred Truck and Anna Couey -
13 System X: Interview with Founding Sysop Scot McPhee -
14 In Search of Identities in the Digital Humanities: The Early History of Humanist -
15 Echo -
16 MOOs and Participatory Media -
17 Hacking the Voice of the Shuttle: The Growth and Death of a Boundary Object -
18 Community Networking: The Native American Telecommunications Continuum -
19 The Art of Tele-Community Development: The Telluride Infozone -
20 Community Networking, an Evolution -
21 Cultures in Cyberspace: Communications System Design as Social Sculpture -
22 Crossing-Over of Art History and Media History in the Times of the Early Internet—with Special Regard to THE THING NYC -
23 Arts Wire: The Nonprofit Arts Online -
24 Electronic Literature Organization Chats on LinguaMOO -
25 trAce Online Writing Centre, Nottingham Trent University, UK -
26 Pseudo Space: Experiments with Avatarism and Telematic Performance in Social Media - A Conversation and Two Epilogues
-
27 Expanding on “What Is the Social in Social Media?”: A Conversation with Geert Lovink -
28 Epilogue: Slow Machines and Utopian Dreams -
29 From Archaeology to Architecture: Building a Place for Noncommercial Culture Online - About the Authors
- Index
