From the Call for Papers: The DH area is seeking papers (approximately 15 minutes in length) that explore the practical, pedagogical, and theoretical issues stemming from the use of Web technologies and other computing techniques and applications to enhance the study of the humanities, particularly popular and American culture studies. What are some of the […]
From the abstract: Increasingly powerful computational methods are important for humanists not simply because they make it possible to ask new research questions but especially because computation makes it both possible — and arguably essential — to transform the relationship between humanities research and society, opening up a range of possibilities for student contributions and […]
With more and more libraries, archives and museums manifestly adopting forensic approaches and tools for handling and processing born digital objects both in the UK and overseas it seemed a good time to take stock. Archivists and curators were invited (via professional email listservs) to submit a short paper for an inclusive and interactive workshop […]
The Internet of Things (IoT) can be defined as the digitizing of reality, the connectedness of the real world, the online extension of … everything. Simply put, IoT is the concept of smart devices interacting with one another through an online connection. IoT technology is not necessarily new in theory or practice: uniquely-identified devices have […]
The University of Nevada, Reno, Department of English is seeking to fill an an entry-level tenure-track position in corpus linguistics and/or digital humanities. Source: Assistant Professor of English: Corpus Linguistics/Digital Humanities
UNC is offering a post-doctoral fellowship in digital humanities: This scholar will (1) develop his/her research and publication agenda through the use of digital technologies in a project to be completed by the end of the fellowship experience; (2) contribute to the Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative by participating in the ongoing project work of the […]
From the announcement: After an exceptionally busy summer, we are thrilled to be able to announce the release of Annotation Studio 2.0. The new version of Annotation Studio offers the following features: Anchored annotations that correspond to the text currently visible Touch capability so that Annotation Studio can be used on mobile devices Upload of very basic PDF files Slide-in menus with context […]
From the announcement: Around DH in 80 Days is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary Digital Humanities collaboration that seeks to introduce new and veteran audiences to the global field of DH scholarly practice by bringing together current DH projects from around the world. Read More: Digital Humanities Around the World in 80 Days
From the call for contributions for the ELO 2015 Conference – Bergen, Norway: The End(s) of Electronic Literature: The 2015 Electronic Literature Organization conference and festival will take place August 5-7th 2015. The theme of the 2015 Electronic Literature Organization conference and festival is “The End(s) of Electronic Literature.” Source: Call for Contributions: ELO 2015 […]
I teach theory and practice of social media at NYU, and am an advocate and activist for the free culture movement, so I’m a pretty unlikely candidate for internet censor, but I have just asked the students in my fall seminar to refrain from using laptops, tablets, and phones in class. I came late and […]
