Edward Tufte’s course on Presenting Data and Information (with image, tweets) · lubar · Storify. Spent a most fascinating day in Boston at Tufte’s course on “Presenting data and information.” More about the course @edwardtufte’s website: www.tufte.com
Henry Oldenburg created the first scientific journal in 1665 with a simple goal: apply an emerging communication technology — the printing press — to improve the dissemination of scholarly knowledge. The journal was a vast improvement over the letter-writing system that it eventually replaced. But it had a cost: no longer could scientists read everything […]
The aim of the inaugural Digital Classics Association (DCA) conference is to provide a survey of current approaches to digital methods of research, teaching, and outreach across classical sub-disciplines, with the goals of further opening inter-disciplinary perspectives and establishing common objectives for digital research and education. Fragmentary Texts » Word, Space, Time: Digital Perspectives on […]
Over the next year, Soundbox will stage a series of provocations – from the Latin pro-vocare, “to call forth” — that confront the current sound of knowledge. Collectively, these provocations will showcase some of the most innovative uses of sound in scholarly settings, both creative and critical. Documentation of these collected works will be published on the web as […]
This panel will feature presentations that offer interpretations of texts, language, literature and/or literary history that definitely began with a digital approach. Crucially, however, we will ask presenters to speak not about their methods but instead about their interpretation, results, and conclusions. Beyond the Digital: Pattern Recognition and Interpretation. A CFP for MLA 2014 from […]
We welcome not only comments on the anthology’s existing contributions but also submissions of additional article-length and primer-style contributions (see the collection’s introduction for instructions) that will broaden the anthology’s coverage of the existing field and chart new territory Literary Studies in the Digital Age | MLA Commons.
The workshop aims to bring together junior and senior researchers in the humanities, those who are already working in eHumanities research, and those in historical research, culture studies, religious studies, language studies, etc., who are interested in the area and wish to get updated, educated, ask questions, and exchange ideas. [HNR] Call for Posters and […]
An initiative of CenterNet, the goal of the project is to create a web site that weaves together a picture of the participant’s activities on the day which answers the question, “Just what do digital humanists really do?” Participants document their day through photographs and text, all of which is published on a community online platform […]
Bowdoin College, in support of its Digital and Computational Studies Initiative, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position in the humanities starting Fall 2013. The appointment will be for two years with the possibility of renewal for one additional year. The ideal candidate could come from any humanities discipline but must have a commitment to using […]
The project is an empirical extension of the Code/Space book (Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge) published in Software Studies series by The MIT Press (2011). It focuses on the intersection of smart urbanism, ubiquitous computing and big data from a software studies/critical geography perspective, comparing Dublin and Boston and other locales. http://www.nuim.ie/nirsa/student.pdf
