Resource: ViralSearch: How Viral Content Spreads over Twitter
ViralSearch [microsoft.com], developed by Jake Hofman and others of Microsoft Research, visualizes how content spreads over social media, and Twitter in particular.
Author: Colleen Nugent
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PhD Studentship: Lancaster University
European Research Council funded PhD studentship in the Department of History at Lancaster University Applications are invited for a PhD studentship funded by the European Research Council. The successful applicant will join the Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places project, a major research team of historians, geographers and others who are working with large data resources – statistical, […]
Job: SAH Archipedia—Interns/Research Assistants Wanted
SAH Archipedia is a media-rich, fully searchable, online encyclopedia of the built world that launched in October 2012. A joint venture of the Society of Architectural Historians and the University of Virginia Press, the SAH Archipedia received major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the Graham Foundation.
CFP: Panel (Networks in) Early Modern Digital Humanities, October, Puerto Rico
I am organizing 2-3 panels related to Early Modern Digital Humanities for the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (to be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on October 24-27, 2013). Despite its name, the SCSC is really concerned with the whole run of time ca. 1450-1700 or so. Proposals for individual papers of all sorts on this theme […]
Editors’ Choice: The Real Digital Change Agent
Over the past few years, many of the most prominent American universities, including Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Duke, have joined to embrace a game-changing approach in opening up their previously closed academic resources. Leveraging the revolutionary potential of digital technology to provide access to the world’s best faculty members, this new method of dissemination takes […]
Job: Head of Digital Scholarship, Clemson University Libraries
Clemson University Libraries seeks an innovative and motivated professional to work with a vibrant library faculty and staff to envision and implement a digital scholarship initiative that creatively engages all members of the campus community. The Head of Digital Scholarship, reporting to the Head of the Office of Library Technology, will play a key leadership role in shaping […]
CFP: Alt-Academic Feminism I: “Teaching Outside the Classroom through Digital Humanities” MLA, Chicago, 1/9-12/2014
CFP: Alt-Academic Feminism I: “Teaching Outside the Classroom through Digital Humanities,” Women’s Caucus for Modern Languages at the MLA, Chicago, 1/9-12/2014. Amid Fembot Collective, Black Girls Code, MOOCs, “brogrammers,” new collaborations, how are women teaching, learning, connecting (or not) via DH? 250-word proposals 3/15/13 to Teresa Mangum (tmangum@uiowa.edu). The Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages, an allied […]
Announcement: Manuscripts Online is Live!
Manuscripts Online has now been officially launched. We hope you’ll like it! We have a few resources still to be processed and added to the search engine, but the site is essentially complete. Key features include Sophisticated custom search which enables you to combine Keyword, Place, Person and Date searches; and/or restrict your search to specific Resources, […]
Job: Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Scholar – Case Western Reserve University
The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, in partnership with the Office of the Provost, announces a postdoctoral fellowship for the academic year 2013-2014 in the area of digital humanities. This position is in association with the Culture, Creativity, and Design Project (http://artsci.case.edu/culturecreativitydesign/) and the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities’ DH Initiatives (humanities.case.edu). This is a […]
CFP: Evaluating Digital Scholarship: Candidate Case Studies
Electronic roundtable session. Candidates will share experiences with submitting digital scholarship for tenure and promotion. Digital work samples, framing strategies, evaluation criteria, challenges and recommendations. Abstracts by 15 March 2013; Victoria E. Szabo (ves4@duke.edu).