News, Resources

Resource: Training Opportunities in Digital Scholarship

About the resource: Part of the mission of the SSRC Digital Culture program, and of Parameters as a platform, is to bring together disparate trainings and resources for scholars hoping to increase their digital literacy and familiarity with digital tools and methodologies used in social science. To that end, we compiled a list of current […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: What can data visualization learn from feminism?

It’s about time to infuse feminism into data science and visualization. At least, that’s what Emerson data visualization and civic tech professor Catherine D’Ignazio says based on her research into what an intersectional feminist perspective on data could look like. “We’re in this moment when big data and visualization are being heralded as powerful new […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers

About the opportunity: The Book: Material Histories and Digital Futures will explore how the book’s evolving material qualities promote and circulate cultural knowledge. As Nicole Howard, in The Book: The Life Story of a Technology, writes, “No other technology in human history has had the impact of [the book].” In addition to looking at the history […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: MLA 2019 – What Do We Teach When We Teach DH?

From the CFP: Over the last decade as digital humanities research has flourished, the MLA convention—as well as other venues—has witnessed increasingly vigorous discussions about teaching digital humanities. We now find ourselves in a discipline that is not so new (acknowledging, of course, that DH is as old as the computer itself) and simultaneously at […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Digital Humanities Journals Survey

About the survey: The main goal of this survey is to develop an expert survey based journal ranking for the Digital Humanities field. This ranking would benefit scholars and practioners in this field by providing them with target outlets for their work; by identifying streams of research; by allowing to showcase accomplishments to tenure and […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: DH Awards 2017 – Voting Announcement

From the announcement: DH Awards 2017 is open for voting at: http://dhawards.org/dhawards2017/voting/ until the end of 25 February 2018. Versions of this announcement in Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), French, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish are available from the website. Digital Humanities Awards are a set of entirely open annual awards run as a DH awareness raising activity. […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Sexism, Twitter, and ‘Algorithms of Oppression’ (Round-Up)

At DHNow we try to use our Editor’s Choice pieces as an opportunity to highlight debates and important scholarship related to the Digital Humanities. Below is a round-up of commentary on two controversial twitter debates related to Safiya Umoja Noble’s (@safiyanoble) forthcoming book Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. The controversy began when the […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Teaching Underrepresented Students How to Navigate Higher Ed Via Digital Humanities

This is the third part in a multi-part series about participants in the Race, Memory, and the Digital Humanities conference. This series features public intellectuals discussing digital literacy issues. “He was always on the lookout for what the next big thing would be, and made sure I knew about it.” In an email interview with DML […]

News, Resources

Resource: Preserving Accented and Non-Roman Characters in CSV Workflows

From the post: Digital work in and around the Humanities often involves moving data from one system or format to another. That data often involves complex textual materials in multiple languages and writing systems. One commonly used format is the “Comma-Separated Values” text file. It’s not uncommon to find that characters not used in English […]