Join the HASTAC Scholars for a discussion on: Mapping the Digital Humanities, A HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum open now at http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forums/04-06-09Mapping-the-Digital-Humanities

Much has been said of maps, and it seems that--with technologies and software such as Loopt, the iPhone, ArcGIS, and Google Maps and Earth--people are becoming increasingly familiar with where, exactly, they are located. Of course, mapping suggests more than "you are here." It implies not only the delimiting of how people relate to each other, to space and place, and to objects, but also the study of how those relationships emerge. What's more, mapping is no doubt a slippery term. As scholars such as Willard McCarty note, it is affiliated with an array of other concepts and practices, such as modeling, diagramming, networking, and representation. With such affiliations in mind, this HASTAC discussion, facilitated by Jentery Sayers and Matthew W. Wilson, seeks to aggregate and unpack how "mapping" (broadly understood) is mobilized in different learning and research spaces, across the disciplines, in the field of the digital humanities:

• How does mapping inform how scholars identify novel patterns in their own research and archives?
• What does mapping afford pedagogy and classroom learning, and how does it foster collaboration and media expansion?
• How do mapping projects by academics alter how they engage their community partners and publics, and vice versa?

Regardless of experience in or familiarity with the digital humanities, we invite participation from anyone who is currently involved in a mapping project. We imagine that contributors could include, but are certainly not limited to, critical geographers, cartographers, literary historians, artists, architects and urban planners, community-based researchers, cultural anthropologists, information scientists, students in digital humanities courses, public intellectuals, and scholars of new media, design, and composition.