This is my seventh class in the MALS-DH and now MADH program, and I’ve taken both DH Praxis classes and both Interactive Technology and Pedagogy classes, so I’ve done a lot of reading and thinking about evolving modes of research, creating, and teaching. I was going to use the word “new,” rather than “evolving,” and thought better of it. I prefer to think of the works we read this week as commenting on a continuum of praxis, as opposed to the world wide web world as an environment that never existed before. I’m just putting together how the history of the book is relevant to this discussion–or maybe, as Jeff presented in our class introduction, the history of the material text.

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