Selected publications online. Here you find preprint versions of published and upublished work.

[ Humanities Computing ] [ Text Analysis and Visualization ] [ Computer Games ] [ Multimedia ] [ Philosophy ]


Humanities Computing

Les potentialités du texte numérique

Co-authored with S. Sinclair in Pratiques de l'édition numérique. Collection Parcours numériques. Ed. M. Vitali-Rosati and M. E. Sinatra. Montréal, Canada: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2014, p. 191-204.

Burying Dead Projects: Depositing the Globalization Compendium

Co-authored with Day, S., Yu, J., and M. Engel in Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 8, No. 2. 2014.

A Visual Workflow Interface for the Editorial Process

Co-authored with Frizzera, L., Radzikowska, M., Roeder, G., Peña, E., Dobson, T., Ruecker, S., Brown, S. and the INKE Research Group in Literary and Linguistic Computing. Vol. 28, No. 4. Pages 615-628. 2013.

Ukrainian Folklore Audio Project

Co-authored with Sellmer, M., Kononenko, N., Chernyavska, M., and K. Anvik in Digital Studies / Le champ numérique. Vol. 3, No. 2. 2012.

Before the Beginning: The Formation of Humanities Computing as a Discipline in Canada

Co-authored with Gouglas, S., Smith, V., Hoosein, S., and H. Quamen in Digital Studies / Le champ numérique. Vol. 3, No. 1. 2012.

Trading Stories: an Oral History Conversation between Geoffrey Rockwell and Julianne Nyhan

Co-authored with Nyhan, J., Welsh, A., and J. Salmon. Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 6, No. 3. 2012.

The Design of an International Social Media Event: A Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities 2009

Co-authored with Organisciak, P., Meredith-Lobay, M., Ranaweera, K., Ruecker, S., and J. Nyhan in Digital Humanities Quarterly. Vol. 6, No. 2. 2012.

Acculturation and the Digital Humanities Community

Co-authored with S. Sinclair in Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles, and Politics. Ed. Brett D. Hirsch. OpenBook Publishers, 2012, p. 177-211.

Crowdsourcing the Humanities: Social Research and Collaboration

Chapter in Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Marilyn Deegan and Willard McCarty. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2012. Pages 135-154.

As Transparent as Infrastructure; On the research of cyberinfrastructure in the humanities

Chapter in Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come. Proceedings of the Mellon Foundation Online Humanities Conference at the University of Virginia, March 26-28, 2010, edited by Jerome McGann. Houston, Rice University Press, 2010. Pages 461-487.

The Canadian Arts and Humanities Computing Centre: Past, Present, and Possible Futures

Co-author with Siemens, Burk, Butler, Gerrity, and Liddell of a section in Mind Technologies: Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community, edited by Raymond Siemens and David Moorman. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006, p. 257-284. My sub-section, “Humanities Computing at McMaster” runs from p. 259-266.

Untitled Number 4: A Brechto-Socratic Dialogue

Co-authored with Stephen Ramsay, this is an updated version of a dialogue performed at the ACH/ALLC 2003 in Athens, Georgia. The original Untitled Number 4 was a literary program and can be found here.

Multimedia, Is it a Discipline? The Liberal and Servile Arts in Humanities Computing

Online version of "Multimedia, Is it a Discipline? The Liberal and Servile Arts in Humanities Computing", in the Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie – online, vol. 4, 2002. A print version of the collection is also available.

Is humanities computing an academic discipline?

Presented for a seminar on that subject at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA in November 1999. The seminar was organized by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

Report on the Questionnaire”, TheCredibility of Electronic Publishing

Online version of the section "Report on Responses to Questionnaire" written with Lynne Siemens. This is one section of “The Credibility of Electronic Publishing” which was led by Raymond Siemens. It is online and was published in Text Technology, Vol. 11, No. 1, p. 210-228


Text Analysis and Visualization

Is it Research or is it Spying? Thinking-Through Ethics in Big Data AI and Other Knowledge Sciences

Co-authored with B. Berendt and M. Buchler in Künstliche Intelligenz (German Journal of Artificial Intelligence.) A pre-print author version is here.

Teaching Computer-Assisted Text Analysis: Approaches to Learning New Methodologies

Co-authored with S. Sinclair in Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles, and Politics. Ed. Brett D. Hirsch. OpenBook Publishers, 2012, p. 241-263.

Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Digital Humanities

Co-authored with Stephen Ramsay this is a chapter in Debates in the Digital Humanities. Ed Matthew K. Gold. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Ubiquitous Text Analysis

Primary author with Stéfan Sinclair, Stan Ruecker, and Peter Organisciak of article in Visualizing the Archive, an issue of the Poetess Archive Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2010). PDF is 18 pages.

The Big See: Large Scale Visualization

Primary author with Garry Wong, Stan Ruecker, Megan Meredith-Lobay, and Stéfan Sinclair or article in the online Proceedings of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, University of Chicago, Vol 1, No 2, 2010. PDF is 14 pages.

Between Language and Literature: Digital Text Exploration

Chapter co-authored with Stéfan Sinclair in Teaching Literature and Language Online, edited by Ian Lancashire. New York: Modern Languages Association of America, 2009. Pages 104 - 117.

TAPoR: Building a Portal for Text Analysis

Chapter in Mind Technologies: Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community, edited by Raymond Siemens and David Moorman. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006, p. 285-299.

MIMes and MeRMAids: On the possibility of computer-aided interpretation

Preprint of the unpublished English version. This was published in French at, Rockwell, Geoffrey, “Des MaMI et des MaMER: Sur la possibilité de l'interprétation assistée par ordinateur,” Trans. Stéphanie Posthumus, in L’Astrolabe, an online, peer reviewed journal edited by Michel Lemaire at http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/astrolabe/, 2003.

What is Text Analysis, Really?

Preprint of Rockwell, Geoffrey, “What is Text Analysis, Really?”, Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 18, no. 2, 2003, p. 209-219.

The Visual Concordance

Preprint of Rockwell, Geoffrey, “The Visual Concordance: The Design of Eye-ConTact”, Text Technology, vol. 10, no. 1, 2001, p. 73-86.

Printing in Sand; Scientific Visualization and the Analysis of Texts

Preprint of English version published in French as Rockwell, Geoffrey and John Bradley, "Empreintes dans le sable: Visualisation scientifique et analyse de texte", in Litterature, informatique, lecture edited by Vuillemin and LeNoble, Paris: Pulim, p. 130-160, 1999. French reprinted online at L’Astrolabe as "Visualisation scientifique et analyse de texte".

Seeing the Text Through the Trees: Visualization and Interactivity in Textual Applications

Preprint of Rockwell, Geoffrey, "Seeing the Text Through the Trees: Visualization and Interactivity in Textual Applications", (Primary Author) written with John Bradley and Patricia Monger, Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 14, no. 1, 1999, p. 115-130.

Eye-ConTact: Towards a New Design for Research Text Tools

Rockwell, Geoffrey and John Bradley, "Eye-ConTact: Towards a New Design for Research Text Tools," Computing in the Humanities Working Papers, A.4. February 1998. This online refereed journal is located at: URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/.


Computer Games

Assessing Serious Games: The GRAND Assessment Framework

Co-authored with Gee, D., Chu, M., Blimke, S., Gouglas, S., Holmes, D., and S. Lucky in Digital Studies / Le champ numérique. 2014.

Campus Mysteries: Serious Walking Around

Co-authored with Uszkalo, K., Henry, C., deJong, E., Lucky, S., Illovan, M., Gutierrez, L., Gouglas, S., Boechler, P., and E. Stroulia in Loading... Vol. 7. No. 12. 2013.

The Indie Academy: Promoting Gaming Communities through University Collaboration

Co-authored with S. Gouglas in Loading... Vol. 7. No. 11. 2013.

The Leisure of Serious Games: A Dialogue

Co-author with Kevin Kee of article in Game Studies. Vol. 11, No. 2 (May 2011).

Computer Games and Canada's Digital Economy: The Role of Universities in Promoting Innovation

Gouglas, S., Della Rocca, J., Jenson, J., Kee, K., Rockwell, G., Schaeffer, J., Simon B., and R. Wakkary. Report to the Social Science Humanities Research Council Knowledge Synthesis Grants on Canada's Digital Economy. December 1, 2010.

Gore Galore: Literary Theory and Computer Games

Preprint version of Rockwell, Geoffrey, “Gore Galore: Literary Theory and Computer Games”, Computers and the Humanities, vol. 36, no. 3, 2002, p. 345-358.

Serious Play at Hand: Is Gaming Serious Research in the Humanities?

Rockwell, Geoffrey, “Serious Play at Hand: Is Gaming Serious Research in the Humanities?” is part of a collection on “The Ivanhoe Game” in Text Technology, No. 2, 2003.


Multimedia

Interfacing the Collection

Co-authored with Sondheim, D., Ilovan, M., Radzikowska, M., & Ruecker, S. in Scholarly and Research Communication. Vol. 3, No. 1. 2012.

On the Evaluation of Digital Media as Scholarship

Profession. MLA, 2011. Pages 152–168. PDF available from MLA site as part of a section on Evaluating Digital Scholarship.

Interrupting Digitization and Thinking about Text

Article in Informatica Umanistica, edited by Massimo Parodi, Vol. 2. Pages 65 – 86.

Multimedia Education in the Arts and Humanities

Secondary author with Andrew Mactavish of a chapter in Mind Technologies: Humanities Computing and the Canadian Academic Community, edited by Raymond Siemens and David Moorman. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006, p. 225-243.

Multimedia

This is a preprint of a co-authored (with Andrew Mactavish) chapter on “Multimedia” for the Companion to Humanities Computing. Eds. Ray Siemens, Susan Shriebman, and John Unsworth. London: Blackwell Press, to be published in 2004-5.

Turing's Reaction: Dialogue as a model for interactivity in multimedia

Originally presented at MITH in March of 2002. Streaming video of the questions period is here.

Diderot and Hypertext

Rockwell, Geoffrey, “Diderot and Hypertext; Dreaming the Circle of Knowledge.” Unpublished essay presented in January, 1999 to the McMaster Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies.


Philosophy

A Unity of Voices: A Definition of Philosophical Dialogue

These are preprint chapters of book published with the title Defining Dialogue: From Socrates to the Internet by Humanity Books (an imprint of Prometheus Books), 2003.

Table of Contents and Abstract, PDF 52 KB

Chapter 1: Introduction, PDF 84 KB

Chapter 2: The Danger of Dialogue, PDF 144 KB

Chapter 3: Orality of Dialogue, PDF 148 KB

Chapter 4: The Reader of Dialogue, PDF 108 KB

Chapter 5: The Writing of Dialogue, PDF 152 KB

Chapter 6: The Definition of Dialogue, PDF 160 KB

Chapter 7: Conclusion, PDF 140 KB

Bibliography, PDF 84 KB

 

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