In an eloquent and pragmatic blog post about building the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, Melissa Terras stresses the importance of rooting a DH center in local institutional culture, in order to “link people” across the whole spectrum from arts and humanities to computer science and engineering. It’s an impressive achievement that has clearly fostered […]
From the CFP: This interdisciplinary project aims to explore various contexts of the digital arts and entertainment creation, production and reception. Source: The Borders of Digital Art The Digital Arts Project | HASTAC
From the posting: This position provides critical support, coordination and project management abilities that support the faculty development mission of the Center and the work of the Director. The Faculty/Instructional Consultant will aid faculty in innovative teaching through consultations, workshops and observations. The individual will also serve as a liaison with key Center partners, including […]
From the announcement: At its June meeting, the AHA Council approved the “Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians.” The approval of the guidelines was the culmination of the work of the ad hoc committee appointed in early 2014 by then-president Ken Pomeranz. The committee was charged with developing a set of […]
Insofar as any part of humanities academe can be said to be buoyant right now, the Digital Humanities is it. New avenues of research are opening up, positions are being created rather than eliminated … even the New York Times has taken an interest. And so, as a relatively long-in-the-tooth DigHum developer, it’s not surprising that […]
What is on the five-year horizon for academic and research libraries worldwide? Which trends and technologies will drive change? What are the challenges that we consider as solvable or difficult to overcome, and how can we strategize effective solutions? These questions and similar inquiries regarding technology adoption and transforming teaching and learning steered the collaborative […]
From the posting: The University of Miami’s Department of English seeks a scholar of the digital humanities at any rank, in any field, to contribute to the department’s intellectual life by maintaining an active research and publication agenda, teaching courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, directing dissertations, and serving on departmental, college, and/or university […]
From the posting: The successful candidate is expected to: Research Carry out internationally oriented, empirical research that is publishable in established international refereed journals; Contribute actively to the development of the Department’s research in the field of media and communication; Expand the Department’s national and international research connections; Contribute to the acquisition of external research […]
From the posting: Reporting to the Head of Cataloging & Metadata Services (CMS), the Humanities Data Curator has primary responsibility for the planning, implementation, and ongoing production of digital collections and scholarly initiatives in support of digital humanities scholarship and artistic production on campus to ensure their high functionality and discoverability through the flow and […]
Big Data research is currently split on whether and to what extent Twitter can be characterized as an informational or social network. We contribute to this line of inquiry through an investigation of digital humanities (DH) scholars’ uses and gratifications of Twitter. We conducted a thematic analysis of 25 semi-structured interview transcripts to learn about […]
