Abstract We report here trends in the usage of “mood” words, that is, words carrying emotional content, in 20th century English language books, using the data set provided by Google that includes word frequencies in roughly 4% of all books published up to the year 2008. We find evidence for distinct historical periods of positive…
Public Knowledge Project announces the 1.0 release of Open Monograph Press | Public Knowledge Project. The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is very pleased to announce the 1.0 release of Open Monograph Press (OMP). OMP is an open source software platform for managing the editorial workflow required to see monographs, edited volumes, and scholarly editions through internal…
New guide means citing films and audio in your content couldn’t be easier : JISC. The British Universities Film & Video Council’s (BUFVC) guidelines respond to the 2011 Jisc report, Film and Sound in Higher and Further Education: A Progress Report with Ten Strategic Recommendations. The report found that despite the exponential increase in the use of…
Job opp: Asst. Prof Professor of Digital Media Design and Humanities at SUNYIT | HASTAC. The Department of Communication & Humanities at the SUNY Institute of Technology invites applications for a tenure-track faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor. The department supports three programs: Communication & Information Design, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Information Design &…
Call for Provocations: Pro-vocare, A New Collection of Sonically-Inspiring Projects | HASTAC. Deadline for Proposals: April 1, 2013 Toward that end, the Soundbox project solicits proposals for “provocations.” These can take a variety of forms, including but not limited to: events or experiments, staged at any location, both online and off ongoing installations produced collaboratively…
Workshops – Prosop: a social networking tool for the past Call for participants Database development workshop Historians and other scholars with large databases of historical person data are invited to workshops to test and populate Prosop, a project funded by the Office of Digital Humanities of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The first of these…
Edward Tufte’s course on Presenting Data and Information (with image, tweets) · lubar · Storify. Spent a most fascinating day in Boston at Tufte’s course on “Presenting data and information.” More about the course @edwardtufte’s website: www.tufte.com
Henry Oldenburg created the first scientific journal in 1665 with a simple goal: apply an emerging communication technology — the printing press — to improve the dissemination of scholarly knowledge. The journal was a vast improvement over the letter-writing system that it eventually replaced. But it had a cost: no longer could scientists read everything…
game_philosophy@unimore: Call for Papers: 7th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games. Computer Game Space – Concept, Form and Experience We hereby invite scholars in any field of studies who take a professional interest in the philosophy of computer games to submit papers to the 7th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games,…
Scholars’ Lab. How can humanities graduate programs better equip students for a wider range of careers, without sacrificing the core values or approaches of the discipline? We are delighted to announce the launch of the Praxis Network, a new partnership of innovative graduate and undergraduate programs that are making effective interventions in the traditional models of humanities…