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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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In this presentation, Professor McPherson argues that we need more humanities scholars to work on issues related to the design and implementation of software systems. Humanities scholars are particularly well suited to help us think through such topics as the status of the archive as it mutates into the database, the possibilities for less hierarchical computing, and the cultural contexts of code.
Tara McPherson is the author of the award-winning book Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender and Nostalgia in the Imagined South. She is also the editor of Vectors, a multimedia publishing project sponsored by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy. Professor McPherson is currently co-editing two anthologies on new technology and working on a book manuscript on racial epistemologies in the electronic age.
