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The iSchool in conjunction with Suzzallo Library Data Services Team and the Simpson Center for the Humanities will be hosting a presentation by Jentery Sayers, assistant professor of English at University of Victoria.
The presentation will be held Thursday, February 16th from 2.30-4:00 in 420 Mary Gates Hall on the UW campus. The event is open to the public.
Sayers will introduce his talk by asking questions about the ways in which scholarship is produced, circulated, reviewed, and preserved, and their effects on our perceptions of writing, collaboration, research, archives, history, and culture.
His latest book project, a cultural history of magnetic recording from 1878 to the present, attempts to answer these questions.
His project uses the Scalar platform to integrate 3D data visualization, Resource Description Framework, Dublin Core metadata schema, and annotated audio and video into a long-form argument anchored in comparative media studies, literary criticism,
and information science and technology studies.
The presentation will also cover other digital scholarly communication projects he is working on, including the Seattle DIY Exhibit, an online exhibit of UW’s Crocodile Café Collection, and Humanities Physical Computing at University of Victoria,
currently his home institution, arguing that the continued engagement with new modes of scholarly communication demands collaboration, multimodal communication, and the combination of technical competences with critical theory.
To learn more about Sayer's work, visit his website at
jenterysayers.com
Lori Dugdale
Director of Communications
Direct: 206-221-6182