Submission Type
20-minute Presentation
Abstract
How can we improve digital humanities accessibility? In other words, how can a small, resource-strapped liberal arts humanities classroom foreground the transformative impact of digital methods of analysis without imposing a high skills or materials threshold on students?
Session
Anti Anxiety DH
Start Date
5-22-2019 1:30 PM
Description
Sarah Leventer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Film and New Media Studies draws connections between New Media and Digital Humanities in her classroom. Becoming media-literate can provoke anxiety in students, and teaching these media in a resource-scarce environment poses its own challenges. Dr. Leventer will illustrate how she has employed digital humanities tools in an introductory film studies class to reduce “new-technology anxiety,” and increase students’ understanding of complex transmedia storytelling worlds
Transmedia Franchises and the Digital Humanities
How can we improve digital humanities accessibility? In other words, how can a small, resource-strapped liberal arts humanities classroom foreground the transformative impact of digital methods of analysis without imposing a high skills or materials threshold on students?