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Editors’ Choice: The University in the Digital Age: The Big Questions (TILTS 2011) – YouTube Video

Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies 2011 “The Digital and the Human(ities)” The keynote lecture by Alan Liu (University of California at Santa Barbara) started the second symposium of the institute. The lecture was transmitted from New Jersey via Skype. Introduction: Sam Baker TILTS 2011 directors: Matt Cohen & Lars Hinrichs

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Editors’ Choice: Big Data and the Dawn of the Super Researcher

In separate “big data” presentations at the Digital Preservation 2012meeting, Myron Guttmann of the National Science Foundation andLeslie Johnston of the Library of Congress described scenarios that seemed futuristic and fantastic but were in fact present-day realities. Both presenters spoke about researchers using powerful new processing tools to distill information from massive pools of data. Imagine, say, a researcher […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: English Tenure Track Professor in Digital Humanities – North Carolina State University

The Department of English at North Carolina State University seeks to make an Assistant/Associate tenure-track appointment in Digital Humanities. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to help build the digital humanities curriculum in undergraduate and graduate programs in English and in the interdisciplinary doctoral program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, and to develop […]

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Postdoc: Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship | Modernist Versions Project

The Modernist Versions Project seeks expressions of interest from exceptional candidates who would like to apply for a Banting postdoctoral fellowship. The Banting fellowship, which emphasizes fit between the candidate and the host institution, is highly competitive. The successful applicant will have to be an emerging leader in her or his field. We especially seek individuals […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

Seminar: “Digital Humanities and the Study of the Web and Web Archives”

This seminar is jointly organized by  NetLab Denmark. It will take place from 3rd until 5th of December 2012 at the Hotel Vejleford in Denmark. Today the Internet is the medium which holds the most multifaceted set of materials documenting contemporary social, cultural, and political life. It has become the fulcrum for the general development of media, including mass media and a […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Associate Professor Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZDEPARTMENT OF FILM & DIGITAL MEDIA Associate or Full Professor  See job posting here. The Department of Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, invites applications for a position in the theory, practice, and/or history of film and digital media at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor. Areas and media of specialization […]

News, Reports

Report: Digital Curation and the Cloud: Final Report

JISC has released Digital Curation and the Cloud: Final Report. This is a revised version of the draft report that was released earlier this year. Here’s an excerpt: Digital curation involves a wide range of activities, many of which may be suitable for deployment within a cloud environment. These range from infrequent, resource-intensive tasks which […]

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Postdoc: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities and New Media – AWID

The Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies (IWGS), the University of Winnipeg. Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Open until filled. Description: The Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies (IWGS) at the University of Winnipeg invites applications for a half time Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities and New Media starting as soon as possible, and lasting up to […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: MW2013: Museums and the Web 2013

Museums and the Web 2013: 17-20 April 2013 at the Marriott Downtown Waterfront, Portland, Oregon The MW program is built from the ground up, based on your suggestions for sessions, papers and presentations. Proposals are encouraged on any topic related to museums creating, facilitating, delivering or participating in culture, science and heritage through networked technologies […]

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Editors’ Choice: “There’s no Next about it”: Stanley Fish, William Pannapacker, and the Digital Humanities as paradiscipline dpod blog

In a posting to his blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education, William Pannapacker identified the Digital Humanities as an emerging trend at the 2009 Modern Language Association Convention. Amid all the doom and gloom of the 2009 MLA Convention, one field seems to be alive and well: the digital humanities. More than that: Among all the […]