From the posting: The Associate Director of Online Instructional Design will be a key member of the Online Learning Initiative (OLI) and the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) to help both organizations support faculty across Penn’s twelve schools in the development of online courses and best practices. Find out more: ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ONLINE […]
From the post: In my post on consuming of linked data using Javascript, I talked about a couple technologies that are critical to being able to use linked data in client-side applications. Making an API or linked data friendly for client-side consumers requires support for a variety of technologies. In this post, I’m going to […]
From the article: Virtual reality is all the rage these days, with options ranging from complete virtual worlds real or imagined, to new programs that allow users to conduct surgery on digital patients. According to Educause, VR “uses visual, auditory, and sometimes other sensory inputs to create an immersive, computer-generated environment. VR headsets fully cover […]
Whose voices are missing from the digital humanities (DH) and libraries discussions? The users. Both DH and librarianship are inherently connected with users, yet user voices, especially those arising from empirical studies, are often missing from planning, developing, and implementing initiatives related to digital scholarship. Humanists’ data management across the research lifecycle is a recent […]
This article is part three of a four-part series on the future of quantification in history. For the thematic introduction to the series, please click here. Or click on the following links for part one, or part two. Excerpt: Aside from the critical acclaim, and the many prizes that have come with the tackling […]
From the CFP: Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology: We invite contributions featuring research on gender, new media and technology. We are particularly interested in contributions that exemplify Ada’s commitments to politically engaged, intersectional approaches to scholarship on gender, new media and technology. Contributions in formats other than the traditional essay are […]
A new website developed at The University of Texas at Arlington plans to make music produced by UTA music students, alumni, professors and independent artists in the North Texas region available for free to the world. Read More: UTA team develops digital archive to preserve music by alumni, students, local artists – UTA News Center
The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) at the University of Toronto Mississauga invites applications for a tenure-stream appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of Critical Computation and New Media. This appointment will begin July 1, 2017. Find out more: Job Description – Assistant Professor – Critical Computation and […]
From the CFP: The Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology invites submissions for a special issue entitled “Technocrime Research at the Margins.” JQCJC seeks manuscripts focusing on qualitative examinations of technocrime (or “cybercrime”) and crime control issues to help alleviate the dizziness induced by our computer-mediated times. Source: CFP: Technocrime Research at the Margins
Abstract: We analyze two ways of thinking about ICTs in the production of space. One is what we call the “mimetic” view. This view focuses on ICTs’ ability to bring representations from one locale into another. Debates about ICTs and geography have historically been driven by this “mimetic” view and continue to be constrained by […]
