Selected publications online. Here you find preprint versions of published and upublished work.
[ Humanities Computing ] [ Text Analysis and Visualization ] [ Computer Games ] [ Multimedia ] [ Philosophy ]
Humanities Computing
Untitled Number 4: A Brechto-Socratic Dialogue
Co-authored with Stephen Ramsay, this is an updated version of a dialogue performed at the ACH/ALLC 2003 in Athens, Georgia. The original Untitled Number 4 was a literary program and can be found here.
Multimedia, Is it a Discpline? The Liberal and Servile Arts in Humanities Computing
Online version of "Multimedia, Is it a Discipline? The Liberal and Servile Arts in Humanities Computing", in the Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie – online, vol. 4, 2002, See http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de/jg02/rockwell.html. A print version of the collection is also available.
Is humanities computing an academic discipline?
Presented for a seminar on that subject at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA in November 1999. The seminar was organized by the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. (Online at: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/hcs/rockwell.html)
“Report on the Questionnaire”, TheCredibility of Electronic Publishing
Online version of the section "Report on Responses to Questionnaire" written with Lynne Siemens. This is one section of “The Credibility of Electronic Publishing” which was led by Raymond Siemens. It is online and was published in Text Technology, Vol. 11, No. 1, p. 210-228
Text Analysis and Visualization
MIMes and MeRMAids: On the possibility of computer-aided interpretation
Preprint of the unpublished English version. This was published in French at, Rockwell, Geoffrey, “Des MaMI et des MaMER: Sur la possibilité de l'interprétation assistée par ordinateur,” Trans. Stéphanie Posthumus, in L’Astrolabe, an online, peer reviewed journal edited by Michel Lemaire at http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/astrolabe/, 2003.
What is Text Analysis, Really?
Preprint of Rockwell, Geoffrey, “What is Text Analysis, Really?”, Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 18, no. 2, 2003, p. 209-219.
Preprint of Rockwell, Geoffrey, “The Visual Concordance: The Design of Eye-ConTact”, Text Technology, vol. 10, no. 1, 2001, p. 73-86.
Printing in Sand; Scientific Visualization and the Analysis of Texts
Preprint of English version published in French as Rockwell, Geoffrey and John Bradley, "Empreintes dans le sable: Visualisation scientifique et analyse de texte", in Litterature, informatique, lecture edited by Vuillemin and LeNoble, Paris: Pulim, p. 130-160, 1999. French reprinted online at L’Astrolabe as "Visualisation scientifique et analyse de texte".
Seeing the Text Through the Trees: Visualization and Interactivity in Textual Applications
Preprint of Rockwell, Geoffrey, "Seeing the Text Through the Trees: Visualization and Interactivity in Textual Applications", (Primary Author) written with John Bradley and Patricia Monger, Literary and Linguistic Computing, vol. 14, no. 1, 1999, p. 115-130.
Eye-ConTact: Towards a New Design for Research Text Tools
Rockwell, Geoffrey and John Bradley, "Eye-ConTact: Towards a New Design for Research Text Tools," Computing in the Humanities Working Papers, A.4. February 1998. This online refereed journal is located at: URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/.
Computer Games
Gore Galore: Literary Theory and Computer Games
Preprint version of Rockwell, Geoffrey, “Gore Galore: Literary Theory and Computer Games”, Computers and the Humanities, vol. 36, no. 3, 2002, p. 345-358.
Serious Play at Hand: Is Gaming Serious Research in the Humanities?
Rockwell, Geoffrey, “Serious Play at Hand: Is Gaming Serious Research in the Humanities?” is part of a collection on “The Ivanhoe Game” in Text Technology, No. 2, 2003.
Multimedia
This is a preprint of a co-authored (with Andrew Mactavish) chapter on “Multimedia” for the Companion to Humanities Computing. Eds. Ray Siemens, Susan Shriebman, and John Unsworth. London: Blackwell Press, to be published in 2004-5.
Turing's Reaction: Dialogue as a model for interactivity in multimedia
Originally presented at MITH in March of 2002. Streaming video of the questions period is here.
Rockwell, Geoffrey, “Diderot and Hypertext; Dreaming the Circle of Knowledge.” Unpublished essay presented in January, 1999 to the McMaster Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Philosophy
A Unity of Voices: A Definition of Philosophical Dialogue
These are preprint chapters of book published with the title Defining Dialogue: From Socrates to the Internet by Humanity Books (an imprint of Prometheus Books), 2003.
Table of Contents and Abstract, PDF 52 KB
Chapter 1: Introduction, PDF 84 KB
Chapter 2: The Danger of Dialogue, PDF 144 KB
Chapter 3: Orality of Dialogue, PDF 148 KB
Chapter 4: The Reader of Dialogue, PDF 108 KB
Chapter 5: The Writing of Dialogue, PDF 152 KB
Chapter 6: The Definition of Dialogue, PDF 160 KB
Chapter 7: Conclusion, PDF 140 KB
Bibliography, PDF 84 KB