CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Investigate the Garment Factories

We are taking the garment factory investigation to the next level with a new online Data Expedition. In collaboration with P2PU and the International Labor Rights Forum, School of Data will bring data explorers from around the globe together online to answer some of the tough questions about the global garment industry. Join us for […]

Editors' Choice

Editor’s Choice: Peeking behind the curtain of the Mechanical Curator

Random, fortuitous, haphazard, undirected, unplanned, and most importantly, unpredictable. There are already many ways to discover great content that you know you like, but how do you find things that you cannot begin to describe? The majority of researchers begin their search for content using a general purpose search engine (Ithaka S+R | Jisc | […]

Editors' Choice

Editor’s Choice: Who’s Afraid of Open Access?

The reason why the Science article deserves a vocal and energetic response from those of us working on open access publishing is Science‘s reputation as a journal and the visibility and online traffic it has. One cannot but interrogate the author’s and his editor’s motivations to publish what comes across as a biased and ‘non-scientific’ […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Asst. Professor, English and Digital Humanities, U. of Calgary

The Department of English at the University of Calgary invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective July 1, 2014. We are seeking candidates with a PhD in English or a closely related discipline, a demonstrated scholarly record, and expertise in Digital Humanities in the context of historical literary and critical […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: A Special MITH *Unconference*

Congress may shut down, but Digital Humanities can’t be stopped! Join the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) this Friday, October 4th at 10:00 am to present the project you would have presented at the NEH project directors meeting. We’ll be hosting an *unconference* and open house to allow project directors and the public to learn about your funded project and […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Research Fellow—Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of the West of England

The Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC) is the University’s hub for research into creative media applications in real world contexts, producing new knowledge about everyday life in today’s digital media ecology. The post represents an exciting opportunity for a committed and dynamic researcher to play a major role in the continuing development of an internationally recognised research centre. Research Fellow—Digital Cultures […]