21 Jul
2010
21 Jul
'10
11:10 a.m.
Hi all,
An op-ed I'd written for the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences in response to the Canadian government's consultations on the digital economy was just placed by them today in the Edmonton Journal: http://bit.ly/aApodN
The argument is that today's internet is as much or more about use applications than engineering--and that Humanists and Social Scientists have played a pretty surprising role in its development and success.
Michael Everson: if you're on this list, I mention you by name ;)
-dan
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Professor of English
University of Lethbridge
Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/)
Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America
President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/)
Founding Director (2003-2009), Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/)
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