Books in Browsers: An Introduction to Scalar

Apr 8 2021
When: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Where: Ahmanson Lab | Leavey Library, 3rd floor (LVL 301)
Event Type: Workshop

Event Details

This workshop will introduce participants to Scalar, an authoring and publishing platform

used by faculty and students at colleges and universities worldwide to create born-digital, media-rich research projects and exhibitions. The first half of the workshop will include a    presentation on the platform’s origins and aims as well as the conceptual framework underlying its features. The second half will include a hands-on overview of the platform’s basic functionality: adding media and text to Scalar projects.

Speaker Information

Speaker
Image of Curtis Fletcher
Senior Administration Member

Curtis Fletcher

Director of the Ahmanson Lab

Curtis Fletcher's research draws on key questions in the fields of media studies, visual studies, science and technology studies, and the history of technology. His published works examine the history of educational technology, the history of humanities education, and the history of the digital humanities. His work in the digital humanities focuses on multimedia and multimodal authoring and publishing, digital pedagogy, and critical making. He specializes in digital research and writing, with particular expertise in new models for authoring, credentialing, and publishing born-digital humanities scholarship. He is a Co-PI on the multimedia authoring platform, Scalar, and for the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture.