The
Chronicle had a really cool post from Jennifer Howard. She is a real favorite of mine. Her May 23 post
Gaming the Archives describes the work of Mary Flanagan at Dartmouth. "
Metadata Games is the brainchild of Mary Flanagan, an artist-designer who’s a professor of digital humanities at Dartmouth. She also directs the Tiltfactor laboratory, which is dedicated to exploring “critical play—a method of using games and play to investigate issues and ideas.” Talking to Peter Carini, the Dartmouth college archivist, about the challenges of tagging special collections got Ms. Flanagan thinking about whether an open-source game interface could help solve the problem.I'm really interested in the notion of "critical play". I've struggled with what to call the pedagogy of using the Flip cameras...now I believe I'm on the right track.
Dr. Flanagan was awarded an NEH
Digital Humanities Start-up grant for her work in developing
