• tech as thinking tool
• tech as tool to think about
• tech as culture
  

• orality writing
  (Milman Parry, Albert Lord, Eric Havelock, Walter Ong)
  
  
• writing print
  (Elizabeth Eisenstein, Roger Chartier, Adrian Johns)
  
  
• print "electric" media
  (Marshall McLuhan, Friedrich Kittler)
  
  
• print & analog media "new media"
  (e.g., Katherine Hayles, Lev Manovich)
  
  

• Integrating information technology (IT) in a humanities department
  
  
• IT's revisionary impact on the paradigm of a humanities department

• Voice of the Shuttle, 1994 (early version | current version)
  
  
• Romantic Chronology, 1995
  
  
• Affirmative Action and Diversity Project, 1996

Funding:

• NEH grant of $30,000 plus federal matching grant of $15,000
  
  
• Private matching donations: $15,000
  
  
• UCSB cost sharing: $66,300
  
  
• UCSB Instructional Improvement Grants: $85,102
  
  
• UCSB Humanities & Fine Arts funding for special undergrad research assistantships: $4,300

Total: $215,702

Concept: (Project Home Page)

• Curricular development initiative
  • courses overview
  • Literature & Culture of Information specialization
    • e.g., English 25 and "Scroll to Screen"
  • Coursebuilder
    
    
• Research initiative (vertically integrated: faculty, grad students, undergrads)
  
  
• Centered in English Dept. (Transcriptions Studio/Lab, Media Classroom, other wired classrooms)

Main Results:

• Hard assets:
  • Transcriptions Lab
  • Classroom technology
  • Department media classroom (SH 1415)
    
    
• Graduate student support
  
  
• Curriculum development (LCI specialization) (new LCI English 10's)
  
  
• Technology development for Department (Coursebuilder, Dept. Web site, EDKB)
  
  
• Revisionary impact on paradigm of a humanities department
  • cross-period and - field work
  • vertically-integrated work (e.g., undergraduate LCI Magazine supervised by graduate students and faculty)
    
    
• Cross-departmental collaboration:
  • Art Dept. and Media Arts and Technology Program
  • Film Studies Dept.
  • Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS)
  • Computer Science Dept.
    
    
• Cross-institutional initiatives (below)

Funding:

• UC Office of the President Multi-Campus Research Group Award: $175,000 ($35,000/yr for five years)
  
  
• UCSB cost sharing (VCR, L&S, HFA, IHC): $185,000

Main Results:

• DCP Conferences and Institutes:

  UC Digital Cultures Research Conference (November, 2000)

  Archive Cultures: Database Design for Online Collaboration (June, 2001)

  Interfacing Knowledge (March, 2002)

  e(X)Literature (April, 2003)

  Copyright and the Networked Computer: A Stakeholders' Congress (Washington, D.C., November, 2003)

  Digital Retroaction (September, 2004)
  

• Graduate Student Conferences Run on Other UC Campuses:
  
  Digital Utopia? Digital Dystopia (UCLA, Art History, 2002)

  Thinking/Building/Living: the Infrastructure of Digital Design (UCSD, Communication & Visual Arts, 2003)

  Life By Design: Everyday Digital Culture (UCI, Visual Studies, 2003)

  Digital Storytelling (UCLA and UCSB, English, 2004)
  

• Research Fellows (one-month residencies at UCSB):

  Michael Heim (2001), Art Center, Pasadena. Author and pioneer in thinking through the social and aesthetic possibilities for virtual reality.

  Lev Manovich (2002), Visual Arts, UCSD. Manovich'sThe Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001) has proved to be one of the most influential accounts of new digital media.

  Geert Lovink (2003), Australia. Journalistic, scholar, and intellectual, Lovink has developed a wide range of interventions for exploring the political possibilities of the networked computer.

  Johanna Drucker (2004), Media Studies, University of Virginia. A scholar of the artists book and a practicing artists and writer, Johanna Drucker is now developing an impressive array of new media work.

Proposed Funding:

• UC Multicampus Research Group proposal ($434,000 over five years; $175,000 from UC Office of the President and the rest from UCSB cost sharing)
  
  
• Future NEH, NSF, and other applications intended to raise approximately $3 million (identified funding targets)

Main Activities and Programs:

• June 17-18, 2005, "UCSB Conversation Roundtables on Online Reading"
  
  
• Working groups
  
  
• Convergence on common technological development initiative
  
  
• Online casebook publications
  
  
• Annual conference
  
  
• Annual week-long graduate seminar