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====**Digital humanities media tends to be built either implicitly for lay audiences, pedagogy or explicitly as a research tool. Is it possible to create multimodal media that relays a rigorous, scholarly argument and how would that media look different from traditional scholarly arguments? How would scholars familiar and unfamiliar with digital ecosystems be able to review such media and where or how would it be published? (Elijah)**====

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 Scholars Discussions:**

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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