http://ryantrauman.com/blog/2010/06/21/tinkering-as-an-orientation-toward-book-futures/ Trauman's Blog: Writing. Reading. Technology. Book History. Book Future. Digital Scholarship. Blogging. Teaching. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:14:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 http://ryantrauman.com/blog/2010/06/21/tinkering-as-an-orientation-toward-book-futures/comment-page-1/#comment-14593 whitney anne Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:06:52 +0000 http://ryantrauman.com/blog/?p=1478#comment-14593 Nice post, and huzzah for techno-hybrid monsters. I'm a big fan of tinkering with scholarship in general. We talk a lot; but (at least in the humanities) we're not given much of a "tinkering" toolset. This is something I've been thinking a lot about -- as an English grad student -- watching my fellow students struggle with a mental load that allows little space for hands-on creativity. We have no "workshop" courses that encourage *making*, which in turn numbs down our ideas when it comes to thinking about media forms. Nice post, and huzzah for techno-hybrid monsters. I’m a big fan of tinkering with scholarship in general. We talk a lot; but (at least in the humanities) we’re not given much of a “tinkering” toolset. This is something I’ve been thinking a lot about — as an English grad student — watching my fellow students struggle with a mental load that allows little space for hands-on creativity. We have no “workshop” courses that encourage *making*, which in turn numbs down our ideas when it comes to thinking about media forms.

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