If you spend too much time inside a project, you soon become unable to see its faults. At The Programming Historian, I suspect we fell victim to that problem. We are not so proud to admit that amongst our contributing authors, we’re predominantly male: Only 7 women and 23 men. We’re also predominantly white and North […]
This new essay published in Post45 is about the relationship between prizewinning novels and their economic counterparts, bestsellers. It is about the ways in which social distinction is symbolically manifested within the contemporary novel and how we read social difference through language. Not only can we observe very strong stylistic differences between bestselling and prizewinning writing, […]
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) seeks applicants for its 2016-2017 Communications fellowship. The fellowship comes with a small annual stipend of 600 Euros. It is well-suited for graduate students who wish to develop deeper knowledge of digital humanities, contribute to an important digital humanities professional organization, and gain experience in social media and […]
Notions of place, space, and site are theorized and put into practice in distinct ways across various academic fields. Spatial technologies and location services and tools, along with the rise of geo-humanities work, are bringing the tensions among ideas of place, space, and site to the surface. The 2016 DH Forum seeks to explore the […]
The Digital Classicist is holding an “online sprint” on Tuesday 31 May, from 16–18h BST (= 17–19 CEST = 11–13 EDT = 10–12 CDT, etc.), with the aim of adding articles to, or improving existing articles in, the wiki, on geographical or geospatial datasets, projects, tools, methodologies and other related questions. All of you who are working […]
I have periodically described my experiences with text mining in this blog. Today I want to raise a significant point that has only recently become clear to me. It happened in the wake of my participation in the University of Michigan’s “Beyond Cntrl+F” workshop on February 1st of this year. This made something very apparent: text mining is in […]
This is an unconference that will be held Saturday, June 11 – Sunday, June 12 on the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville campus in the Morris University Center. Read full CFP here.
The University of Toronto Scarborough is recruiting two Application Programmers. From the ad: Reporting to the Coordinator of Digital Scholarship Unit and in collaboration with librarians and faculty leading digital scholarship projects, and taking direction from Information and Instructional Technology Services, (IITS) the incumbent is responsible for providing quality resources and technical expertise to the […]
The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University is hiring a contract Web/Graphic Designer. From the ad: The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University is hiring a contract Web/Graphic Designer to create a publicity web site to publish research outcomes for “Mapping Expatriate Paris: The Sylvia Beach Lending Library Project,” an ongoing digital humanities […]
If you claim computational approaches to history (“digital history”) lets historians ask new types of questions, or that they offer new historical approaches to answering or exploring old questions, you are wrong. You’re not actually wrong, but you are institutionally wrong, which is maybe worse. This is a problem, because rhetoric from practitioners (including me) is that we can […]
