Museums and galleries embrace social media and use it as a means to communicate and promote their activities, and also to interact and engage with their visitors (Russo, Watkins, Kelly, & Chan, 2008; Kidd, 2011; Fletcher & Lee, 2012). A large number of museums now have a profile on social media sites to post news,…
Now back to some texts for a bit. Last spring, I posted a few times about the possibilities for reading genders in large collections of books. I didn’t follow up because I have some concerns about just what to do with this sort of pronoun data. But after talking about it to Ryan Cordell’s class at…
What do pet cloning websites, YouTube videos of fans playing AC/DC’s “Gone Shootin’”, and discussions of the end times on UseNet all have in common? Answer: Robert Glenn Howard has studied and written about all of them in his ongoing study of the vernacular web. Robert Glenn Howard is the Director of Digital Studies and a Professor…
Force11 is a community of scholars, librarians, archivists, publishers and research funders that has arisen organically to help facilitate the change toward improved knowledge creation and sharing. Individually and collectively, Force11 aims to bring about a change in modern scholarly communications through the effective use of information technology, which will also broaden to include, for…
Recently, my colleague and Hybrid Pedagogy co-conspirator, Pete Rorabaugh, and I spoke at the Emory Symposium on Digital Publication, Undergraduate Research, and Writing. Over the course of two days of discussion, it became clear that, in order to realize the full potential of digital publication initiatives like the Domain of One’s Own project at the University of Mary…
William Pannapacker’s recent post in the Chronicle, “Stop Calling it ‘Digital Humanities’,” makes a point that I tend to agree with. The social category “digital humanities” does not meaningfully connect with many of those it would presumably include. In particular, it turns out that the reception of the digital humanities at liberal arts colleges has been…
The Web publishing paradigm of Linked Data has been gaining traction in the cultural heritage sector: libraries, archives and museums. At first glance, the principles of Linked Data seem simple enough. However experienced Web developers, designers and architects who attempt to put these ideas into practice often find themselves having to digest and understand debates…
I had the opportunity to return to Carnegie Mellon this week to lecture on archives and access, which was a real pleasure. My friend and former colleague, Jon Klancher, heard the talk and asked if I had plans to publish it. Unfortunately, I’m not in a position to do that now. But I thought it…
I am currently teaching a graduate course (eng630: “Digital Humanities”: Emerging Tools and Debates in Literary Study) and, as much as possible, I’m trying to make clear the mechanics behind some of the text-analysis in the works we’re reading. So, this week, as I prepared to discuss Stephen Ramsay’s Reading Machines, I wanted to reproduce some…
Sixteen months after the relaunch of Digital Humanities Now, it is time again to offer a glimpse behind the scenes. While many of the trends we identified in our six month report remain stable, there have been two significant changes in our editorial process. First, we have reduced our publication cycle from daily to twice…