Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: How Digital Are the Digital Humanities? An Analysis of Two Scholarly Blogging Platforms

In this paper we compare two academic networking platforms, HASTAC and Hypotheses, to show the distinct ways in which they serve specific communities in the Digital Humanities (DH) in different national and disciplinary contexts. After providing background information on both platforms, we apply co-word analysis and topic modeling to show thematic similarities and differences between […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Museum as Play, Iteration, Interactivity, and the Human Experience

Thomas Padilla recently interviewed Sebastian Chan, the Chief Experience Officer at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Previously Chan held positions as Director of Digital & Emerging Media at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and Head of Digital, Social and Emerging Technologies at the Powerhouse Museum. His work spans consideration of digital and physical spaces and has been recognized […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Engagement Specialist, University of Cambridge

From the ad: The University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced person to help us transform the way that we engage with our audiences digitally. We are looking for someone who shares the UCM’s commitment to developing and diversifying our audiences, and who will work with the UCM team and […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: AHA, “AskHistorians,” Outreach and Its Challenges in an Online Space

AskHistorians is an all-volunteer, multi-platform new media forum with over 350,000 subscribers, making it the largest historical space of its kind on the internet. Unlike most outreach, the forum is structured like highly public “town hall meeting” on a global scale—a question-and-answer session in which knowledgeable experts publicly interact with individual questioners while an audience […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Help the Digital Liberal Arts Exchange

The Digital Liberal Arts Exchange is imagining a collaborative, multi-institutional approach to supporting digital scholarship efforts. Their hope is that you would take a few moments to review what we’ve posted there. You can vote up and comment on the ideas that you like the best. Read full CFP here.

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Propose a workshop for NYC DHWeek 2016

We invite members of the NYC DH community to participate in the NYC DH Workshop Week—like Restaurant Week for DH! At the link below, you may sign up to teach a workshop on a topic of your choice during the week of February 8-12 (except on 2/9, which is the day of the general meeting). Read full CFP here.

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Professor (Digital Resources Librarian)

Sam Houston State University is looking for an assistant professor (Digital Resources Librarian). From the ad: Experience with creation and/or management of digital objects in various formats. Knowledge of and ability to use computer information technologies, especially, digital image technologies, effectively. Should be familiar with metadata standards. Experience with web page development and design. See […]