BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3601-7e0a1f3834b90573b30c407831e8eaa9@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260507T022606Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230217T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230217T130000 SUMMARY:Twitter and the #Humanities: Online Research, Community, and Praxis DESCRIPTION:\nOver the past decade\, Twitter has offered an integral com munity space and online knowledge commons to humanities researchers. The relationships emerging from Twitter hashtags like      #AcademicTwitter \, #AltAc\, and #PhDChat have produced new scholarly collaborations\, cr owdsourced bibliographies\, collective syllabi\, and more. Tweets have b ecome a valuable source of humanities data\, prompting exciting new work on the possibilities of digital storytelling\, or “Twitteratures.” But the increasing use of Twitter as a research hub has also brought signifi cant risks\, only exacerbated by Elon Musk’s recent takeover of the comp any.      What must change (and is changing) about academic Twitter comm unities? Is academic Twitter worth saving\, or should we seek a new onli ne forum\, like Mastodon? Whatever or wherever our future virtual resear ch community may be\, how might we better ensure that we are prioritizin g and protecting the sovereign knowledge(s) of Black\, Indigenous\, disa bled\, and LGBTQIA2S+ scholars\, among others?\n\n \;\n\nPanelists:\ n\nRaven Lloyd\, Assistant Professor of African and African-American Stu dies and Film and Media Studies\, Washington University in St. Louis\n\n Raven Lloyd is the author of Reshaping Digital Black Resistance (forthco ming from University of California Press).\n\nAshley Caranto Morford\, A ssistant Professor of Writing and Literature\, Department of Liberal Art s\, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts \n\nWith Jeffrey Ansloos and D avid Gaertner\, Ashley Caranto Morford is co-editor of #NativeTwitter: I ndigenous Networks of Relation and Resistance (forthcoming from Wilfrid Laurier University Press).\n\n \;\n\nJulie Park\, Paterno Family Lib rarian for Literature and Affiliate Professor of English\, Penn State \n \nJulie Park is the author of The Self and It (Stanford University Press \, 2010) and My Dark Room (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press) . Her current book project\, Writing’s Maker\, considers the multimedia forms of life-writing in the eighteenth century.\n\n \;\n\nModerator :\n\nGrace King\, Graduate Student\, Department of English\, Penn State\ n\nRegister here.\n\nhttps://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TR-N4H4WQ3m xBqdfK5REXQ\n\n \;\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirm ation email\n\ncontaining information about joining the webinar.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cals-unprecedented_021723/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Over the past d ecade, Twitter has offered an integral community space and online knowle dge commons to humanities researchers. The relationships emerging from T witter hashtags like      #AcademicTwitter, #AltAc, and #PhDChat have pr oduced new scholarly collaborations, crowdsourced bibliographies, collec tive syllabi, and more. Tweets have become a valuable source of humaniti es data, prompting exciting new work on the possibilities of digital sto rytelling, or “Twitteratures.” But the increasing use of Twitter as a re search hub has also brought significant risks, only exacerbated by Elon Musk’s recent takeover of the company.      What must change (and is cha nging) about academic Twitter communities? Is academic Twitter worth sav ing, or should we seek a new online forum, like Mastodon? Whatever or wh erever our future virtual research community may be, how might we better ensure that we are prioritizing and protecting the sovereign knowledge( s) of Black, Indigenous, disabled, and LGBTQIA2S+ scholars, among others ?

 

Panelists:

Raven Lloyd, Assistant Professo r of African and African-American Studies and Film and Media Studies, Wa shington University in St. Louis

Raven Lloyd is the author of Reshaping Digital Black Resistance (forthcoming from Unive rsity of California Press).

Ashley Caranto Morford, Assistant P rofessor of Writing and Literature, Department of Liberal Arts, Pennsylv ania Academy of the Fine Arts

With Jeffrey Ansloos and David Gaertner, Ashley Caranto Morford is co-editor of #NativeTwitter: Indi genous Networks of Relation and Resistance (forthcoming from Wilfrid Laurier University Press).

 

Julie Park, Paterno Fa mily Librarian for Literature and Affiliate Professor of English, Penn S tate

Julie Park is the author of The Self and It (Stan ford University Press, 2010) and My Dark Room (forthcoming from U niversity of Chicago Press). Her current book project, Writing’s Make r, considers the multimedia forms of life-writing in the eighteenth century.

 

Moderator:

Grace King, Graduate Stu dent, Department of English, Penn State

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