Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Open University’s Innovating Pedagogy 2013 Report

The Open University’s “Innovating Pedagogy” reports explore new forms of teaching, learning and assessment, to guide educators and policy makers. The 2013 report updates four previous areas of innovation and introduces six new ones: Crowd Learning, Learning from Gaming, Maker Culture, Geo-Learning, Digital Scholarship and Citizen Inquiry. This second report updates proposes ten innovations that […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: “Suppose there’s some connection”: Visualizing Character Interactions in Ulysses for Bloomsday 2013

For this year’s Bloomsday, Rhonda Armstrong, Regina Higgins, Steven Hoelscher, Pamela Andrews and I collaborated digitally to extend the Ulysses dataset and visualization work begun at THATCamp Prime 2012 (aka Bloomsday 2012). Rhonda, Regina, Steven, and Pamela each thoroughly scoured ten pages of the book to add to our knowledge about the network of character […]

News, Resources

Resource: Open access edition of Manovich’s new book is now online

My publisher Bloomsbury Academic made available Open Access edition of my new book Software Takes Command. The edition contains complete text of the book. It uses a new digital publishing software from Issuu. This link will take you directly to the book (you may need to wait a few seconds before it loads): Software Takes Command […]

News, Resources

Resource: How did they make that?

Many  students tell me that in order to get started with digital humanities, they’d like to have some idea of what they might do and what technical skills they might need in order to do it. Here’s a set of digital humanities projects that might help you to get a handle on the kinds of […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Applications open for Five Solutions: Digital Sustainability for Historians

APPLICATIONS OPEN! Five Solutions to What? Historical scholarship is increasingly digital; and yet we do not have an agreed form of best practices for ensuring that digital scholarship lasts. Five Solutions is looking for five scholars able to outline a solution to the issues of sustainability now facing historians. Read Full Post Here

News, Resources

Resource: “Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative”

This animated thematic map narrates the spatial history of the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire.  To teachers and researchers, the presentation offers a carefully curated archive of key documentary evidence.  To all viewers, the map suggests an argument about the strategies of the rebels and the tactics of counterinsurgency, about the […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Reviewing JDH Round-Up

The Journal of Digital Humanities: Post-Publication Review or the Worst of Peer Review, by Adeline Koh – August 29, 2013 The problems of traditional peer review are well known. Peer review is not transparent; it takes too long; the true blindness of peer review is questionable, especially in small fields; its gatekeeping function encourages the […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Shorts at the 2013 ASA Annual Meeting

The Digital Humanities Caucus of the American Studies Association seeks ASA conference attendees to participate in a session entitled Digital Shorts: New Platforms of Knowledge and Dissent. The session will consist of “lightning talks” in which participants describe digital projects in 3-5 minute presentations, receive community feedback, and discuss issues raised by the talks. These […]