Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant/Associate Professor of Digital Humanities

From the announcement: The Department of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell seeks an enthusiastic and collaborative colleague for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professorship in Digital Humanities. The literary specialty for this position is open, but the ideal candidate will have a variety of DH skills and project experience which may include mapping, […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Archiving the Web — A Case Study from the University of Victoria

The University of Victoria Libraries started archiving websites in 2013, and it quickly became apparent that many scholarly websites being produced by faculty, especially in the digital humanities, were going to prove very challenging to effectively capture and play back. This article will provide an overview of web archiving and explore the considerable legal and […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: MassMine Training Session, Nov. 13, 2014, and Online

From the announcement: Training: November 13, 2014, 12-1pm, in Library West 211, and via Adobe Connect (link to be added) This meet-up will take the form of a hands-on training session for using MassMine. The session will include an introduction to MassMine and how it was created in response to a humanities research question, how […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Professor in Ethics and Digital Culture

From the announcement: The successful candidate will have a research specialization in the study of ethics and digital culture. This could include areas such as: ethical dimensions of new media, ethics and digital pedagogy, the ways that digital environments affect ethical action, social behavior and social justice using digital tools or in digital environments, ethics […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: On the political economy of the GeoJSON format

This essay is written in response to a colleague who, for the sake of anonymity, I will simply refer to as Dr. X (or perhaps, as @wallacetim dubs him, Professor Glasses). During the first ever #mapTimeLEX—an event inspired by @alyssapwright, and here in Lexington, largely an ode to @lyzidiamond and @mappingmashups—Dr. X graciously posed the […]

Announcements, News, Uncategorized

Announcement: Twitter gives MIT $10M and access to the firehose to build a Laboratory for Social Machines

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced on Wednesday that it is launching a new “laboratory for social machines” to look at the impact that social media of all kinds has on society, and said the new lab will be funded by a $10-million donation from Twitter over the next five years. The new research group […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Bursaries for DH2015

From the announcement: Each year the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) offers a limited number of bursaries for Early Career scholars presenting at the conference. For DH2015 there will also be additional bursaries available, on a competitive basis, to emerging scholars and practitioners from Australia and New Zealand. Source: Bursaries | DH2015