Dr. Burges is the principal investigator on Mediate, a platform for the digital annotation of audiovisual and time-based media with cross-disciplinary applications. His primary collaborators on Mediate are Emily Sherwood,Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab and Studio X at the University of Rochester, and Joshua Romphf, the head programmer of the Digital Scholarship Lab at theUniversity of Rochester. Burges is the author of Out of Sync & Out of Work: History and the Obsolescence of Labor in Contemporary Culture(Rutgers UP, 2018) and co-editor, with Amy J. Elias, ofTime: A Vocabulary of the Present (NYU Press, 2016).His current work includes Television and the Work ofWriting (which explores writing for television as both economic labor and aesthetic craft – as work and form –from Rod Serling, Carl Reiner, William Greaves, and Tina Fey to Michaela Coel, Mindy Kaling, Jill Soloway, and Matthew Weiner) and Late Bourgeois Unities, a more experimental investigation of affect, form, and subjectivity in a time of class morbidity and economic stagnation. His writing has appeared in New German Critique, Post45,Digital Humanities Quarterly, and Cinema Journal. To register for this lecture, click here.
From Collectively Close to Communally Distant and Back Again: Four Models of Annotation and Interpretation in the Digital Humanities
Activity Type:
Lecture
Presenter:
Joel Burges, Associate Professor at the University of Rochester
Date:
Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 17:30 to 19:30
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
CL 232
Streaming Link:
UCIS Unit:
Asian Studies Center
Other Pitt Sponsors:
Film and Media Studies Program; SCREENSHOT: ASIA
Is Event Already in University Calendar?:
No