News, Resources

Resource: A guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities, from London School of Economics

Available to download as a PDF or view on Issuu. We have put together a short guide answering these questions, showing new users how to get started on Twitter and hone their tweeting style, as well as offering advice to more experienced users on how to use Twitter for research projects, alongside blogging, and for use in teaching.

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Mentorship program from DHCommons and Association for Computers and the Humanities

The ACH is very pleased to announce a partnership with DHCommons meant to broaden our successful digital humanities mentorship program. The ACH’s mentorship program matches newcomers to the digital humanities with experienced advisors in the field for job market advice, networking, and professional guidance.If you would like to participate, visit the DHCommons sign-up page and complete the ACH Mentoring […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Fellowship in Digital Humanities at Utrecht University

The Centre for the Humanities and the Descartes Centre at Utrecht University, in cooperation with the digital Humanities platform of Utrecht Univeristy, are launching an annual fellowship to promote intellectual exchange and collaboration in the domain of the Digital Humanities. The Digital Humanities, also known as Humanistic Informatics or Humanities Computing are a fast-growing field […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Fellowship with e-Humanities Group, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Visiting fellowships in Computational Humanities, based at the eHumanities Group, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) (http://ehumanities.nl). Applications for 2013 now open! These visiting fellowships are intended to enable scholars working in computational humanities to conduct research and to participate in the academic life of the eHumanities Group of the KNAW. Visiting fellowships […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Chinese History with DH focus, Northeastern U.

The Department of History at Northeastern University invites nominations and applications for a specialist in Chinese history since the 19th century to be appointed at the rank of assistant professor for Fall 2013. Successful candidates will advance the History and Asian Studies undergraduate programs and the innovative graduate world history program as well as college initiatives […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Evaluating Scholarly Digital Outputs: The 6 Layers Approach

The topic of appropriate standards for the evaluation of scholarly digital outputs has come up in conversation at my institution (the University of Canterbury, New Zealand) recently and I’ve realised I haven’t got a ready or simple answer, usually replying that such standards are extremely important because we need to ensure scholarly digital outputs attain […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: The Politics of Trolling and the Negative Space of the Internet

CFP- Special Issue for the Fibreculture Journal: The Politics of Trolling and the Negative Space of the Internet | The Fibreculture Journal Edited By Jason Wilson, Christian McCrea and Glen Fuller A great deal of thinking about the Internet and politics is still structured by a desire for deliberative democracy. From 1993 – when Howard Rheingold […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Research Data Manager, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship at Columbia University

Job: Research Data Manager, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship at Columbia University | laurie n. taylor. Reporting to the Director of the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) (http://cdrs.columbia.edu/), a division of the Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, the Research Data Manager will work closely with the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research, staff […]