It’s been said that digital texts like video games and web apps are on their way to shaping the 21st century in ways that surpass film and television’s cultural influence of the 20th century. Then again, the Internet seems to present both best-case and worst-case scenarios where artists and thinkers and audiences collaborate in unprecedented ways, but, it seems, also risk being drowned out by what novelist David Foster Wallace identified in 2007 as “… a kind of Total Noise that’s also the sound of our U.S. culture right now, a culture and volume of info and spin and rhetoric and context that I know I’m not alone in finding too much to even absorb, much less to try to make sense of or organize into any kind of triage of saliency or value. Such basic absorption, organization, and triage used to be what was required of an educated adult, a.k.a. an informed citizen—at least that’s what I got taught. Suffice it here to say that the requirements now seem different.” What are the humanities of a digital age? What is their value? In which direction do you think digital media are more likely to go—toward a more open, diversified, multicultural, and democratic medium or toward a more corporate, commercialized, homogeneous, and centrally controlled medium? Why? What are the implicaitons for the humanities? As with our previous class discussions (and unlike your journals).
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