Job: Digital Technologies Development Librarian
Montana State University is recruiting a Digital Technologies Development Librarian. See the job ad here.
Author: Colleen Nugent
Job: Digital Humanities Librarian, Brown University
Brown University is hiring a Digital Humanities Librarian. See the job ad here.
Job: Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communication Librarian
Smith College is recruiting a Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communication Librarian. See the ad here.
Resource: Avant Garde Project Archive
Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. Find it here.
Editors’ Choice: Scaffolding, Hard and Soft: Infrastructures as Critical and Generative Structures
Today in the Parsons “Design for This Century” lecture course — a class that’s required of all first-year Transdisciplinary Design, Design + Technology, and Design Studies students — I’ll be talking about infrastructure. This presentation will later become a chapter in Jentery Sayers’s The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities, forthcoming 2016….We’ll start off with […]
Job: Assistant Professor of English, Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology’s English Depratment is recruiting an Assistant Professor of digital writing and new media production for a tenure-track position. Read the full ad here.
Job: Digital Scholarship Librarian, Claremont Colleges
The Claremont Colleges is recruiting a digital scholarship librarian. Read the full ad here.
Resource: Games in the Classroom Reading List
Anastasia Salter has compiled a list of recommendations for critical readings on games in the classroom, with an accompanying link to a list of ProfHacker posts on games. Read it here.
Editors’ Choice: Finding Jokes for The Victorian Meme Machine
In truth, we don’t know how many Victorian gags have been preserved in the British Library’s digital collections. Type the word ‘jokes’ into the British Newspaper Archive or the JISC Historical Texts collection and you’ll find a handful of them fairly quickly. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many more […]
Editors’ Choice: Which Kind of Papers Has Higher or Lower Altmetric Counts?
In scientometrics, altmetrics are seen as an interesting possibility for measuring the broad impact of research. Whereas citation counts allow the measurement of the impact of research on research itself, an important role in the measurement of the impact of research on other parts of society is ascribed to altmetrics. The present study investigates the […]