- I'm a digital archivist at the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) in the Office of Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress and a doctoral student at GMU. I'm interested in online communities, digital history, and video games. I blog on this site, and at playthepast.org. Views expressed are not those of any current or former employer.
My Recent LoC.gov posts- All Digital Objects are Born Digital Objects May 15, 2012
- Life-Saving: The National Software Reference Library May 4, 2012
- ArtBase and the Conservation and Exhibition of Born Digital Art: An Interview with Ben Fino-Radin May 1, 2012
- Better Know a Viewshare: Exploring Texas Funeral Records April 18, 2012
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Recent Comments
- A Reply | grokingfeminism on Another way to count the books
- What Is the “New Aesthetic”? « stunlaw on The New Aesthetic and the Artifactual Digital Object
- MUSEUMS IN SOCIAL MEDIA & THE WEB | Culture Victoria News on Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage: The Objectives Are Upside Down
- Matt Burton on The New Aesthetic and the Artifactual Digital Object
- The New Aesthetic and the Artifactual Digital Object | Trevor Owens on Deforming reality with Word Lens
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Twitter: tjowens
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- RT @retius: Wow, they should sell prints! RT @amandafrench: #THATCamp Museums NYC has a serious poster. http://t.co/YCKZccV2 about 13 hours ago from Tweetbot for iOS ReplyRetweetFavorite
On typos
I blog because I want to. I don't get paid to do this. It isn't fancy like that. I am also not a particularly careful editor. I just wasn't wired that way. Every once and a while I get an email from someone who points out typos in my text. Sometimes they apologize for sending me those comments. I am always deeply grateful to them. If you see a typo, misspelling, or otherwise grammatically incorrect issue on my site and send me an email I will be thrilled. I will thank you. My email is trevor dot johnowens at gmail do com.Archives
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Author Archives: tjowens
Techies You Decide! You’re either a Feminist or a Misogynist
I got caught up reading Margaret Robertson’s great post today, In Which I don’t try to write like a man. She describes how she has self-censored herself. How she has tried to frequently go out of her way to de-gender … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Games
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Ancient Wisdom from the Forums: Failures of Collective Intelligence
A while back, I wrote about how the shame you are supposed to feel when someone uses Let Me Google That For You illustrates how finding answers to your questions on the knowledge base that is the internet has become a distinct … Continue reading
Posted in History, Note to historians of the future
Tagged collective intelligence, distributed cognition, forums, xkcd
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Newbs, N00bs and Elitists: Neologisms for learners and teachers in open online communities
The openness of online communities is one of the things that make them so exciting. Anyone, anywhere, can create an account and start participating. The more I think about some of the research I did on RPGmakerVX.net the more I think … Continue reading
My First Citation! Not my writing but my gaming?
Well it’s happened. I have been cited for my work! While it would be fun to say that it was one of my fantastic research articles, it is actually for my chops as a Druid a few years back in … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Games
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Please Write it Down: Design and Research in the Digital Humanities
As Theory Fight 2011 rages on among the DH twitter folk I feel compelled to interject in something that is more than 140 characters. Which brings me here. Last night Tom Scheinfeldt provocatively suggested, DH arguments are encoded in code. I disagree … Continue reading
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Finding Scholarship and Scholarship Finding Us
Melissa Terras has a great post up about what happens when you tweet an open access paper. Seriously, go read it. The details are interesting, but the main point is that 535 people who wouldn’t have seen her paper at least … Continue reading
Studying Discourse Online is Studying Designed Experience
Young people participating in fan fiction forums are learning English as a second language. People arguing about Preist tallents in the World of Warcraft forms are participating in informal science learning and reasoning. Hip hop discourse in online forums can help us engineer financial … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Tools
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User Stories as a Genre of Digital Humanities Scholarship
There has been a good bit of discussion about how building things can be thought of as a hermeneutic process. Building things can be the crux of a methodology for at least part of this thing we are calling the … Continue reading
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Building The Forum: Or, Help Design Trevor’s Dissertation
In a 2009 interview with ReadWriteWeb, Mark O’sullivan, the lead developer of the open source web forum software Vanilla, was asked if Web forums are still relevant in the era of the real-time-web of Facebook and Twitter. His response offers an important point of … Continue reading
The Digital Humanities Are Already on Kickstarter
I have been talking with a lot of historians, librarians, archivists and curators about the possibility of using Kickstarter to fund digital humanities and digital library, archive, and museum projects. If you are unfamiliar, Kickstarter is a site and tool … Continue reading
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