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Keywords & Collaboratory: Revolutionizing American Studies

Explore the intersection of digital scholarship, publication, and professionalization in cultural disciplines. Engage with a network of scholars through collaborative dialogue and innovative methodologies. Discover new mediums for tracking keyword usage and knowledge projects. Transform the traditional concept of keywords using online platforms for enhanced learning experiences. Join the conversation at Keywords Collaboratory for a dynamic approach to American Studies.

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Keywords & Collaboratory: Revolutionizing American Studies

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  1. American Studies at the Digital Crossroads

  2. at the Digital Crossroads American Studies Conversation-to-Date: Three Threads Digital Scholarship and Publication Professionalization and Formal Training Scholarship in the Cultural Disciplines and the Digital

  3. KEYWORDS Online • Collaborative in design and execution • Network of 64 scholars • Dialogue across analytical frameworks • Keywords in American Studies and cultural studies: as the vocabulary changes, so should the means through which we track their usage and the knowledge projects they enable. • “Keywords” themselves are reflective of new media and digital environments: metadata, search terms, and tags. Translation into a new medium of the blank pages at the back of Raymond Williams’s Keywords

  4. KEYWORDS Online Our Three Locations • The main website:keywords.nyupress.org • Our blog:depts.washington.edu/forums • Our wiki:depts.washington.edu/keywords/wiki

  5. keywords_blog hosts discussion around keyword-related events

  6. keywords_wiki targets classes and working groups

  7. keywords_website updates to all three sites—and new features … … keywords from the book • … student-produced keywords from the wiki • … and resources for instructors: • syllabi • assignments • instructor chat

  8. touring thecollaboratory

  9. touring the collaboratory

  10. touring the collaboratory

  11. touring the collaboratory + Final Products (1) Synthetic essays that track and cohesively narrate keyword usage across course texts.

  12. touring the collaboratory + Final Products (2) Multi-layered essays that parse keyword-usage by course texts and offer deep content by linking across the wiki and other online resources

  13. touring the collaboratory + Final Products (3) Archive of course texts paired with student analysis tuned to multiple meanings of course keyword(s)

  14. wikis in the classroom • 360° Visibility • Different Modalities of Course Dialogue • Pushing the Classroom beyond Class Walls • Direct Engagement with Keyword-Formation • Critical Awareness of Public Knowledge • New Kinds of Collaboration and Knowledge Production

  15. ad-hoc grad student survey 50 respondents: • Institutions: UW, Fordham, Brown, UT Austin, Michigan, Florida State, Duke, George Mason, MIT, Case Western, SMU • (Inter)disciplines: English, Rhet/Comp, American Studies, History, Anthropology, Special Education, Communications and Media Studies, Philosophy

  16. What digital technologies have you been trained in?

  17. Where did you learn your digital technology skills? • Additional Question: • If you use digital technologies in the classroom, do you feel that your department recognizes and rewards your efforts to teach students these new literacies? • No: 67 % • Yes: 33%

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