ignore the well‐intentioned “voices of reason” that will always argue for interpretingscholarly or artistic fair use in the most restrictive manner
a common theme in the manifesto is the effort to limit restrictions and boundaries on how dh is discussed and understood
Digital humanists defend the rights of content makers, whether authors, musicians, coders, designers, orartists, to exert control over their creations and to avoid unauthorized exploitation; but this controlmustn’t compromise the freedom to rework, critique, and use for purposes of research and education.Intellectual property must open up, not close down the intellect and proprius
its important to balance people's rights to their intellectual property while also making the work available for further research and educational use
We further reject the phrase to the degree that it suggests that thehumanities are being modified by the digital, as it were, “from the outside”with the digital leading and the Humanities following. On the contrary, ourvision is of a world of fusions and frictions, in which the development anddeployment of technologies, and the sorts of research questions, demands,and imaginative work that characterize the arts and Humanities merge.
digital technology and the humanities are not separate, instead they are intertwined and influence each other
Center for Comparative Literature and Media:
emphasizes medium driven/specific analysis instead of through traditional disciplinary boundaries
“People aren’t looking for ways to not contribute to their community,” Isenberg said. “It’s just that cash allows them to name for themselves what that looks like for their lives.”
exactly, plenty of people want to contribute, and like we've seen in the article, have ambition and goals. but are held back by lack of resources or responsibilities that make it too expensive to pursue anything else
One participant in the $1,000-a-month group said that during the study, she took a pay cut for an entry-level position with significant promotion opportunities.
Agency is just as important as the money itself here. I think it was important to let people choose how to spend the money instead of setting strict restrictions.
The money also affected how much medical care people sought, how much they considered entrepreneurship or additional schooling and even the kinds of jobs they took
the money gave people access to opportunities and resources they might not have had access to before.
Some of the volunteers told the researchers that the money allowed them to stop living paycheck to paycheck and start imagining
this was a recurring idea in the experiment, people having the freedom to no longer live paycheck to paycheck gave them room to have lives outside of just working and paying bills