The Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science has an opening for full time tenure-track position at the level of assistant professor in the area of Digital media and emerging technologies To schedule an interview please contact Debbie Rabina (drabina@pratt.edu) To learn more about Pratt SILS full-time faculty visit http://research.prattsils.org/ A detailed job description…
In this video from the Media Systems gathering at UC Santa Cruz, Alex McDowell — one of the most influential designers in the world today — talks about how computational media are transforming storytelling. We are moving from the linear, auteur-oriented storytelling model of the printing press and industrialized film production to a collaborative, non-linear…
The transition from analogue to digital archives and the recent explosion of online content offers researchers novel ways of engaging with data. The crucial question for ensuring a balance between the supply and demand-side of data, is whether this trend connects to existing scholarly practices and to the average search skills of researchers. To gain…
Job Description: The MLA is excited to announce this new position with the responsibility for building new connections between databases, a CMS, and an expanding array of Web publications and communication portals. This developer will be working with both the IT and the production teams to design and build a more flexible and modular infrastructure…
“Bringing Digital Humanities to the Community College and Vice Versa” NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Project This ANONYMOUS survey was developed with support from a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Humanities Start-Up grant. You will not be identified and your response will be combined with those of all respondents. THE SURVEY WILL TAKE…
Title: Digital Projects Manager Immediate Supervisor: Director of Education Programming Summary: Ford’s Theatre Society seeks a Digital Projects Manager to be responsible for research and development of digital projects relating to the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, as well to provide guidance and support for other digital learning initiatives at Ford’s Theatre. To apply,…
Data Information Literacy (DIL) symposium hosted by the Purdue University Libraries on Sept 23rd and 24th. No registration for viewing the live stream is required. We hope that you will be able to join us, virtually, for this event. The DIL Symposium will be recorded and made available afterwards through e-pubs, Purdue University’s Institutional Repository. http://laurientaylor.org/2013/09/13/data-information-literacy-dil-symposium-hosted-by-the-purdue-university-libraries-sept-23-24/
The Department of English Language & Literature at the University of South Carolina invites applications for a tenure-track, Assistant Professorship in Digital Humanities (Open Literary Field). Assistant Professor of English – Digital Humanities – Apply – Interfolio.
At the Association of Computational Linguistics conference in Bulgaria last month, researchers from CMU presented a model for cinematic archetypes: “Learning Latent Personas of Film Characters.” The model uses the descriptive language of Wikipedia entries along with personal data of actors in films to automatically induce a set of character personas: the traitor, the flirt. As…
My purpose here, following in the spirit of Kathleen Fitzpatrick, is to consider how to cultivate good habits of live-tweeting in academic contexts… The guiding principle that should animate the live-tweeting of a lecture is the attempt to use public words to create a supportive community of thoughts, ideas, and people related to the theme under…