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Digital Knowledge: a Domain of One’s Own Faculty Initiative

Putting the word “digital” in front of “knowledge” or in front of “liberal arts” begs a whole host of questions: What work does “digital” do as an adjective? What do we imply or privilege if we use it as a noun (“the digital”)?
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A Brief History of Domain of One’s Own, Part 1

Domain of One’s Own (DoOO) is not just a platform. It’s a philosophy. A history, then, can not just account for the development of the technologies but must also account for the thinking that brought the project to life.
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Who’s Afraid of Domain of One’s Own?

I was surprised to learn, in a recent conversation with colleagues, that although there are clear and justifiable connections between “Domain of One’s Own” (hereafter, DoOO) and Virginia Woolf’s extended essay A Room of One’s Own from which the initiative gets its title, we could identify no one who had written substantively about those connections.
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