Blog Post 5 - Hockman

The term collaboration means to work jointly on an activity especially to create or produce something. Thus, I find it fitting that any project done collaboratively will decrease or expunge knowledge limitations. Our discipline requires more conceptual collaboration that most because we write and we study writing.

Bringing the digital into our world (our discourse community) is both necessary and obligatory. (Yes, I did it. I dropped the DC bomb. Dr. Carter-Tod will be proud.) The passage that we read for this blog post highlights the progressive ways in which humans can collaborate from a distance and compose in different environments. I particularly like the point made about knowledge dissemination. The larger the population of individuals that are able to access and contribute to knowledge, the better. Likewise, there's a lot of nonsense on the internet; by disseminating good stuff, there's a chance we can reach those that seek good stuff, and that good stuff can further be use collaboratively to disseminate real good stuff. (My back-up plan after graduate school is to get a job with Snapple.)

The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank for Katrina victims and others is a great way to apply scholarship in digitial humanities. I am grateful to have learned about this project.

Hope you guys have a great week.