Resource: Resources on blogging in the classroom
Some references collected for a workshop given by Matt Price (History) and Alexandra Guerson (New College)
Author: Colleen Nugent
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CFP: Theorizing the Web (April 14, 2012) University of Maryland
The goal of the second annual Theorizing the Web conference is to expand the range and depth of theory used to help us make sense of how the Internet, digitality, and technology have changed the ways humans live. We hope to bring together researchers from a range of disciplines, including sociology, communications, philosophy, economics, English, history, political science, information science, the performing arts and many more.
Fellowship: Two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship focused on digital scholarship – Occidental College
The Center for Digital Learning + Research at Occidental College offers a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship focused on digital scholarship.
Application Deadline: Application review will begin on January 3. For full consideration, please submit your materials by January 15. Electronic submissions are preferred
Editors’ Choice: From Closed Silos to Collaborative Networks: Digital Impacts on Museums (Slideshare)
CFP: Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Second Call
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (21 February 2012): Proposals are now being accepted for presentations at the DHSI Colloquium for the digital humanities, to be held in June 2012 at the University of Victoria. (After an *excellent* first intake of papers for the colloquium, with the promise of additional tuition scholarship spots we’ve added a second intake to ensure that all those receiving tuition scholarships have the opportunity to submit a proposal.)
Resource: “Data-Mining Shakespeare” – Folger Shakespeare Library Lecture
Folger Director Michael Witmore discusses his recent work in Shakespeare studies which combines computer analysis of texts, linguistics, and traditional literary history and shares how these analyses may change our understanding of Othello while also shedding light on the deep complexity of human judgments about literary texts.
Resource: Inaugural issue of “Computational Culture” Journal
Computational Culture is an online open-access peer-reviewed journal of inter-disciplinary enquiry into the nature of cultural computational objects, practices, processes and structures.
CFP: Digital Media and Learning Research Associates, 2012 Summer Institute
The Digital Media and Learning (DML) Research Hub invites advanced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars conducting research in the field of Digital Media and Learning to submit applications for the DML Research Associates Summer Institute to be held June 11-15, 2012, at Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
CFP: Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2012
The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, organizational, and social issues. The theme for JCDL 2012 is #sharing #linking #using #preserving. Digital libraries, under a variety of names and modalities, are often part of the every day web experience. The challenge is how digital libraries can enhance user experience through providing stability in changing information environment, breaking down information silos, integrating into accepted practices of the web, and providing a range of access and services to resources across the web, both to human and machine users.
Resource: “Making an Impact: How Digitised Resources Change Lives” Slideshare
Simon Tanner, “Making an Impact: How Digitised Resources Change Lives.”