1. Facebook and Engineering the Public by Zeynep Tufekci There’s been a lot of brouhaha about a recent Facebook study in which Facebook altered the news feed of 689,000 of its users to see if moods were “contagious.” There has huge discussion of its ethics, and another one on its publication. There’s also the argument […]
New digital evolutions are increasingly affecting humanities research and education since the final quarter of the twentieth century. Online resources, data sets, electronic teaching environments, open access publishing, data visualisation and data capturing have become ubiquitous. Therefore, the KU Leuven Faculty of Arts has consciously chosen to support DH developments as part of its research […]
We are seeking a talented front end developer with a passion for art and the humanities to work alongside our humanities specialist and the Zooniverse and Tate teams to deliver the project. Source: New Zooniverse digital humanities job | Zooniverse
Call for Proposals Bucknell University, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will host its first annual international digital scholarship conference. The theme of the conference is “Collaborating Digitally: Engaging Students in Faculty Research” with the goal of gathering a broad community of scholar-practitioners engaged in collaborative digital scholarship in research and teaching. Source: […]
“Sorry, the page you were looking for is no longer available.” In everyday web browsing, a frustration. In recreating or retracing the steps of a scholarly paper, it’s a potential nightmare. Luckily, three tools exist that users should be using to properly cite, store, and retrieve web information – before it’s too late and the […]
Visualizing Algorithms The power of the unaided mind is highly overrated… Without external aids, memory, thought, and reasoning are all constrained. But human intelligence is highly flexible and adaptive, superb at inventing procedures and objects that overcome its own limits. The real powers come from devising external aids that enhance cognitive abilities. How have we […]
The Constructing Scientific Communities project, part of the AHRC’s Science in Culture theme, is inviting proposals for citizen science or ‘citizen humanities’ projects to be developed as part of the Zooniverse.org platform. Proposals are welcome from researchers whose work would benefit from the active participation of tens or even hundreds of volunteers. Source: Proposals | […]
Registration is now open for THATCamp Games 2014: NASAGA Edition! Join us in Baltimore for workshops, games, conversations, debates, writing, game jams, making, and play! Read full announcement here
This is an exciting opportunity for a leading practitioner in the field to play a key role in promoting digital humanities activity across the School and central University of London, and in championing the digital humanities to the wider academic community and beyond. Source: Chair in Digital Humanities | School of Advanced Study, University of […]
NYU Humanities Initiative video series: Join us to hear a panel of faculty and graduate students present case studies of successful digital projects for teaching and to share best practices and new approaches to using technology in their research. Source: Resource: Using Digital Tools in the Classroom and in Research – YouTube
