{"id":3779,"date":"2011-07-12T11:52:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T16:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2011-07-12T11:52:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T16:52:50","slug":"alt-academy-alternative-academic-careers-a-mediacommons-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3779","title":{"rendered":"#alt-academy: Alternative Academic Careers | a mediaCommons project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mediacommons.futureofthebook.org\/alt-ac\/\"><img src='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/alt-academy-logo.png' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to blog about the MediaCommons collections edited by Bethany Nowviskie titled <a href=\"http:\/\/mediacommons.futureofthebook.org\/alt-ac\/\">#alt-academy: Alternative Academic Careers<\/a>. This collection of essays is long over due and corrects the view that the only way to do the digital humanities is to get a tenure-track job. This collection calls into question the relatively fixed boundaries between academic staff (faculty) and alternative academic staff (alt-ac). I would go so far as to say that humanities computing was a field primarily populated by alt-ac folk that is only recently getting colonized by academics. Anyway, I expect to assign essays from this collection to my students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been meaning to blog about the MediaCommons collections edited by Bethany Nowviskie titled #alt-academy: Alternative Academic Careers. This collection of essays is long over due and corrects the view that the only way to do the digital humanities is to get a tenure-track job. This collection calls into question the relatively fixed boundaries &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3779\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#alt-academy: Alternative Academic Careers | a mediaCommons project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-and-administration","category-humanities-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3781,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions\/3781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}