Resource: Customize your network visualization
Here’s how you can customize the look of your network visualization so that you can see what you need to see.
Author: Colleen Nugent
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Job: Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities, Illinois Institute of Technology
The Lewis Department of Humanities seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in digital humanities. Research and teaching areas of particular interest include comparative history; art and architectural history; communication; or literature; but strong applications from any discipline will be considered.
Resource: Introducing the Digital Humanities from the University of Michigan Teaching and Technology Collaborative
Presented to the University of Michigan Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC), the presentation, “Introducing the Digital Humanities,” was a whirlwind tour of new large-scale databases and tools for conducting and storing research, and a demonstration of some of the interactive platforms for broadcasting and publishing findings.
Editors’ Choice: Critical Discourse in the Digital Humanities
My interest in the role and nature of criticism in the Digital Humanities grows out of a question that Alan Liu has asked in a few places this year: Where is the cultural criticism in the digital humanities? Although I’m not convinced that DH needs its own brand of cultural criticism beyond what its constituents would normally do as humanists, the question resonated with me because it made me wonder (with only silence to follow): where is the criticism in the digital humanities?
Job: Assistant Professor of Digital Media Culture, UC-Irvine
The Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the Assistant Professor level, beginning July 1, 2012. We seek scholars whose research and teaching is dedicated to the history and theory of digital media culture.
Job: Assistant Professor of Digital History, Coastal Carolina University
The Department of History at Coastal Carolina University invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor in the field of Digital History to begin August 15, 2012.
Resource: Data Management Plan Tool
The University of California and several other major research institutions have partnered to develop the DMPTool, a flexible online application to help researchers generate data management plans—simple but effective documents for ensuring good data stewardship.
Resource: Free Access to Scientific American 1845-1909 archive through 11/30/11
Nature Publishing Group is providing complimentary access to the 1845-1909 archive of Scientific American through November 30, 2011.
Resource: Library for the R Programming Language
I have gathered together much of the code from my series of posts on Exploring Art Data as a library for the R programming language which is now available as a package on R-Forge: https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/rca/.
Editors’ Choice: Digital Humanities and Theory Round-Up
Editors’ Note:
In the past month scholars have been writing more extensively about the intersections between digital humanities, hacking, and theory. Below are several pieces exploring the place of theory in digital humanities work, each with comments and links to earlier discussions. This conversation also has led to the creation of @THATCampTheory, being planned for 2012.
Natalia Cecire: American Nerds Go to THATCamp, November 3, 2011
- “But one concern continues to resurface in all of these posts, as well as in the Twitter conversation around my initial post, namely that theory, too, can be a site of power, one that has played all too well with the academic star system in the past, leaving people who now greatly