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====**What does the language we utilize reveal about our own privilege(s) as established or developing members of the academy? This includes the reproduction of various hierarchies, systems of power (re)produced in new digital endeavors. What role does institutional and disciplinary inertia play in our selection of projects to 'digitize'? How can we develop effective ways of identifying and transforming these potential barriers to an engaged pedagogy reaching beyond the university into local, regional, and global networks? (Ed G-T)**====

Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History by Franco Moretti Professor Franco Moretti argues heretically that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. He insists that such a move could bring new luster to a tired field, one that in some respects is among “the most backwards disciplines in the academy.”

**HASTAC Scholar Discussions:**

Mapping the Digital Humanities This HASTAC discussion seeks to aggregate and unpack how "mapping" (broadly understood) is mobilized in different learning and research spaces, across the disciplines, in the field of the digital humanities.

Democratizing Knowledge  What does it mean to "democratize knowledge"? HASTAC Scholars consider the intersections of information technologies with fostering community partnerships and opening access to university resources and research.

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