Cyber-Disciplinarity
This Humanities Institute will initiate a trans-disciplinary survey of critical issues attendant to the rise of cyber-culture: the effects of cyber-culture on "discipline," in terms of both specific disciplines of knowledge and broader modes of social surveillance.
The rise of cyber-culture and new media presents significant challenges and opportunities to academic disciplines, within and beyond the Humanities. Technologies such as personal computers, digital databases, and the world wide web are transforming how scholars research, teach, and publish. For some scholars, their very object of study has been altered. For still others, cyber-culture has afforded innovations in methodology, collaboration, and practical application. Beyond these developments, cyber-culture also includes broad cultural and social transformations, from changes in work patterns and entertainment forms to the rise of global commerce and new definitions of the nation-state. For many, these changes index the emergence of a new form of global surveillance and power.
We have assembled 15 scholars to investigate these issues and their attendant research in relation to them. Two conferences are scheduled in conjunction with the Institute (see associated links). A volume of essays by participants in the Institute and the conferences will follow.
Contacts
Director and Main Contact:
Mark Williams
Dept. of Film and Television Studies
317 Wilson Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
E-mail: Mark.J.Williams@dartmouth.edu
Humanities Center Administrator:
The Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities
Dartmouth College
6240 Gerry Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
Phone: (603) 646-0896
Fax: (603) 646-0998
E-mail: Humanities.Center@dartmouth.edu