2009/10 – IASC/HIST 3F90: Survey of Humanities Computing

How can we best use digital multimedia to express the humanities? In HIST/IASC 3F90 we will answer this question by:

i. “thinking about” multimedia through definitions, histories, examples and theoretical problems;
ii. “thinking with” multimedia, using computer technologies to explore and communicate ideas.

We will give special attention to the simulation/interactive game. According to one authority, simulations may be “the paradigmatic form of multimedia, or for that matter, the paradigmatic form of expression in the digital age.”



2010/11 – I’m on sabbatical.