Digital Manuscripts: Engaging the Public(s)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford Univ.
Organizer Name
Fiona Griffiths
Organizer Affiliation
Stanford Univ.
Presider Name
Benjamin L. Albritton
Presider Affiliation
Stanford Univ.
Paper Title 1
Digging Deeper with Online Communities
Presenter 1 Name
Kenneth S. Ligda, Jonathan Quick
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Stanford Univ., Stanford Univ.
Paper Title 2
A Twitter Account on the Fly: Medieval Manuscripts (et Cetera) and Outreach
Presenter 2 Name
Katharine C. Chandler
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Free Library of Philadelphia
Paper Title 3
I Tweet the Fall of Princes and Kings: @MonkofBury, Digital Manuscripts, and Public Engagement in Medieval Studies
Presenter 3 Name
Bridget Whearty
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Binghamton Univ.
Paper Title 4
Digital Manuscripts and Social Media: Problems and Possibilities
Presenter 4 Name
Erik Kwakkel
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. Leiden
Start Date
14-5-2016 3:30 PM
Session Location
Fetzer 1005
Description
Over the last five to ten years, we have reached an inflection point with the abundance of available digital images of medieval manuscripts: more material is available online than has ever been available to scholarship in the past. Through library websites, social media, and online learning, medieval content can now reach audiences that might never have been exposed to it. This situation can lead to anxiety about how manuscript content is represented online (questions of attribution and context abound), but also holds the potential to invite new publics into engagement directly with manuscripts. Twitter is rife with medieval marginalia; online courses on book history, like those recently sponsored by Stanford and Harvard, engage thousands of students worldwide; and active bloggers can bring general audiences into discussions of topics that fall outside of traditional publishing paradigms. This session will invite presentations that highlight outreach and engagement with both traditional (ie. academic) and non-traditional publics, and will encourage discussion of the role of the digital in raising the levels of interest and awareness of the medieval while also highlighting the responsibility of medievalists to help provide a context for the many disembodied images proliferating online.
Digital Manuscripts: Engaging the Public(s)
Fetzer 1005
Over the last five to ten years, we have reached an inflection point with the abundance of available digital images of medieval manuscripts: more material is available online than has ever been available to scholarship in the past. Through library websites, social media, and online learning, medieval content can now reach audiences that might never have been exposed to it. This situation can lead to anxiety about how manuscript content is represented online (questions of attribution and context abound), but also holds the potential to invite new publics into engagement directly with manuscripts. Twitter is rife with medieval marginalia; online courses on book history, like those recently sponsored by Stanford and Harvard, engage thousands of students worldwide; and active bloggers can bring general audiences into discussions of topics that fall outside of traditional publishing paradigms. This session will invite presentations that highlight outreach and engagement with both traditional (ie. academic) and non-traditional publics, and will encourage discussion of the role of the digital in raising the levels of interest and awareness of the medieval while also highlighting the responsibility of medievalists to help provide a context for the many disembodied images proliferating online.