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Annotation Swarm: A Conversation About Ethical Programs

In honor of Open Access Week, October 19 through 25, the University of Texas at Austin’s Digital Writing and Research Lab (DWRL) will lead a collaborative annotation of Digital Studies Center Director (and DWRL alumnus) James Brown’s new book Ethical Programs: Hospitality and the Rhetorics of Software (University of Michigan

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Well Played: Dokapon Kingdom

Join us Wednesday , September 16 at 12:15 in the ModLab (Fine Arts 215) for a Well Played session of Dokapon Kingdom, a role playing game that Atlus USA has promoted as “friendship destroying.” Preventing fellow players from progressing is a significant part of gameplay, and this Well Played session

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Digital Studies Center is pleased to announce the 2014-2015 Project Grant Winners

techniques Geographic Information Systems projects Examining the emerging multimedia and multimodal technologies in the humanities Development of new digital tools for analyzing and making available digital resources New digital models of publication and dissemination of scholarship Digital technology for research and teaching 2014-2015 Grant Winners It Gets Better: Rutgers-Camden Ellen

U R Here: A Festival of Digital Language Art

we can actively explore those stakes as we write and make our projects. A central challenge: How do we swerve from an entrepreneurial and techno-libertarian mindset (which we notice even at arts spaces/events/conferences) to an engaged, activist stance that doesn’t take institutional and market logics for granted?      

Spring 2016 Digital Studies Courses

TTH 3:00PM – 4:20 FA-217 Nash Video games are being used to tell new stories. Although classic storytelling will always form a solid underpinning for narrative in any medium, the introduction of a new axis – ‘Interactivity’ – is quickly subverting the standard paradigms of linear storytelling. This not only