“Landscape turns” and “spatial turns” are referred to throughout the academic disciplines, often with reference to GIS and the neogeography revolution that puts mapping within the grasp of every high-school student. By “turning” we propose a backwards glance at the reasons why travelers from so many disciplines came to be here, fixated upon landscape, together. […]
The University of Virginia Law Library invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Humanities beginning June 1, 2012 and ending May 31, 2013. This position is renewable for up to three years and offers compensation of $45,000 plus health insurance. The successful candidate’s independent research will be supported while an opportunity to contribute […]
Papers | CSCW2012: Mixed Reality Games Workshop. Here is a listing of all the papers submitted for our workshop, along with their abstracts and authors. For downloading convenience, we’ve compiled all the papers into one handy bundle. We’ve included the paper that we organizers put together to initiate the workshop as a “background” and motivation […]
Let’s make OpenPhilosophy.org!. I’m very excited to say that the project has secured some funding from JISC, who champion digital technology for use in higher education in the UK. The project will be a collaboration between Goldsmiths, University of London, the University of Oxford and the Open Knowledge Foundation. It will also involve students and […]
Academic Professional Job Opening. Academic Professional—Assistant to Graduate Program in Digital Media The School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at Georgia Tech seeks an Academic Professional to serve as Assistant to the Graduate Program in Digital Media. This individual will provide administrative support to the program and Graduate Director at our Atlanta campus, oversee the […]
Brett Bobley – Google+ – JOB ANNOUNCEMENT FOR DIGITAL HISTORIAN Dear Colleague, I was recently speaking with a colleague over at the National Library of Medicine (part of NIH), Jeff Reznick, Chief of the History of Medicine division. Jeff is about to put out a new job vacancy for a Deputy Chief. This is a […]
On November 3, 2011, OSTP released a Request for Information (RFI) soliciting public input on long-term preservation of, and public access to, the results of federally funded research, including peer-reviewed scholarly publications as required in the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010.
Software Studies: call for papers for the next issue of Computational Culture journal. Call For Papers Computational Culture, a journal of software studies Deadline: 30th March 2012 The new peer-reviewed open access journal Computational Culture has been launched. The first issue entitled ‘A Million Gadget Minds’ is available online at: http://computationalculture.net/ Computational Culture is now […]
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Graphs Beyond the Hairball | eagereyes. Networks are usually drawn using a technique called node-link diagrams. While that works well for small graphs (the technical name for networks), it breaks down beyond a few dozen nodes. Better techniques exist, though these are currently focused on specific types of graphs or answer particular questions.
