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Remediation, or how digitisation is changing the meaning of texts (Part 1)
Digitisation is an inevitable process of modernity; more and more books are being digitised and there seems to be no indication of it stopping. This week saw the discovery of, or at least a potential...
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Can we even talk of an early modern public?
Today marked the first day of the Reading Publics summer school at the University of Warwick. So far it has been exceptionally stimulating and has exploded some concepts that I thought that I had a...
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The Order of Books, or How Digitisation is changing the meaning of texts...
The previous post in this series argued, digitisation is changing the way in which we encounter texts. It alters the experience of reading and the way we find books. One of the dangers of relying upon...
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How to talk about books you haven’t read
We have all been in that situation where we are surrounded by our highly cultured and intelligent friends and they start talking about a great book. Often, it’s a book that you have never read, so you...
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No Academic is an Island
Academics are increasingly becoming involved with blogging, but how effective are we at it? Are we using blogging as productively as we could, and if not what can we do to improve how we blog and use...
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Academics and Olympians
Over the past week the world, or at the very least my home, has been swept up in olympic fever. After Danny Boyles incredible opening ceremony, that gave us an eccentric vision of British history that...
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Reason and Debate, or, why sometimes people fail to convert
This week I have been thinking a lot about knowledge-exchange and the transfer of news within the dialogue genre for a paper I will be giving in a few weeks in Cambridge. One of the elements that...
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Dialogues with Death and the Devil
One of the characteristics of dialogues published in the first half of the seventeenth century is woodcuts on the frontispieces. The woodcuts are often used to identify the characters in the...
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Tips for Getting Postgraduate Funding
Having just started as a Funding mentor for the postgrad hub at the University of Warwick who helps MA students as they prepare and apply for funding for their PhD’s I thought I would think about five...
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Contested Words: The Debates Over Meaning in the Early Modern Period
The following is a work in progress poster for a one-day conference I am organising on the 21st June 2013. The following is a brief description of the conference: Digitisation is changing the terrain...
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