News, Resources

Resource: Music Genre and Spotify Metadata

I wanted to explore Spotify’s metadata in a way that would model the interpretive messiness of generic categories. To do so, I built a program that bounces through Spotify’s metadata to produce multiple readings of the idea of genre in relation to a particular artist. Spotify offers a fairly robust API, and there are a number of […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: VAP in Digital Media Studies Mount Holyoke College

The Film Studies Program at Mount Holyoke College invites applications for a visiting assistant professor of digital media studies, beginning July 1, 2016. This position is a new category called an Innovation Hire, a four year position that invites the candidate to help shape the College’s curriculum in new directions. Read full post here.

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The Arithmetic of Concepts

Last year I wrote a review of Peter de Bolla’s extraordinary book, The Architecture of Concepts: the Historical Formation of Human Rights (Fordham, 2013)… Since he wrote this book, de Bolla has spear-headed the  at Cambridge, where he leads an interdisciplinary group of scholars devoted to precisely this project: developing a more sophisticated and rigorously theorized […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarship Programmer/Analyst at Northeastern University

From the announcement: Northeastern University Libraries are pleased to announce a new position as part of our growing research and development activities in the fields of digital humanities and digital libraries. The Library is undertaking an ambitious agenda in support of emerging digital humanities and quantitative social sciences research efforts at Northeastern. With the launch […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Lynette S. Autrey Visiting Professors at Rice Humanities Research Center

From the announcement: Applicants from any humanistic discipline or interdiscipline including, but not limited to, art history, architecture, computer science, geography, history, legal studies, library science, literary studies, or philosophy and whose research and teaching interests focus on issues related to spatial humanities are eligible to apply. Applicants must hold the terminal degree in their […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding/Opportunity: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows at Rice Humanities Research Center

From the announcement: The Humanities Research Center hosts yearlong residential postdoctoral fellowships at Rice University for outstanding junior scholars. The program is designed to encourage interdisciplinary teaching and research, facilitate new research communities at Rice, and prepare junior scholars for future faculty positions. In 2016-17, Mellon postdocs will participate in the Rice Seminar, a yearlong research seminar designed […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Open Hardware Summit

From the post: The Open Hardware Summit is the annual conference organized by the Open Source Hardware Association and the world’s first comprehensive conference on open hardware: a venue to discuss and draw attention to the rapidly growing Open Source Hardware movement. This year’s summit will be on September 19, 2015 in Philadelphia, PA. Check […]

News, Resources

Resource: Image Annotations in Scalar Just Got Easier!

From the announcement: Annotations are an important part of what authors do with Scalar, and indeed, an important part of the platform’s overall feature set…But until now, Scalar users creating image annotations have been required to manually set their coordinates, width and height. Not anymore! We’ve just finished integrating the open source plugin, Annotorious into […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Feeling Machines: The Psychopedagogies of Emotion-maximizing Media

It is now possible to measure and manage emotions through mobile apps and other digital devices. As part of my current research exploring the expert practices and knowledge base of the emerging field of “educational data science,” I have been gathering examples of educational technologies that are designed to both monitor learners’ emotions through data […]