Ted Underwood and David Bamman 1500-word abstract of a paper delivered Sat, Dec 9th, at MLA 2016, in a panel with Deidre Lynch and Andrew Piper. By visualizing course evaluations, Ben Schmidt has reminded us how subtly (and irrationally) descriptions of real people are shaped by gendered expectations. Men are praised for being funny, and […]
The Web Science 2016 conference seeks papers for the field of Web Science. “The Web Science 2016 conference will take place in Hannover, Germany, from May 22-25, 2016. It welcomes participation from all disciplines including, but not limited to, art, computer and information sciences, communication, economics, humanities, informatics, law, linguistics, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology, […]
Nominations are now being accepted for DH Awards 2015. Read more here.
I’m really excited about the course I’m teaching this semester. DIKULT303: Digital Media Aesthetics is a graduate seminar with a topic that changes from year to year, and this year it will be about machine vision, my current obsession, and a topic I think is going to be immensely important over the next decades. The […]
Your institution likely already has some web form or email address, attached to some type of internal workflow (¯\_(ツ)_/¯), for ingesting public feedback about the content or presentation of your collections information. GitHub repositories have a light issue tracking system turned on by default, the idea being that any GitHub user can quickly post up […]
Kevin Marks has created a web-based tool that helps those live-tweeting conferences. Lee Skallerup Bessette writes about Noter Live here.
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media has opened applications for its summer Digital History summer institute: “Are you a mid-career American historian interested in digital history training for novices? Apply now for one of 25 available spots for the Doing Digital History: 2016 summer institute to be held July 11- 22, 2016 […]
One of my side projects (eventually to turn into a main project) is figuring out what can be done with historical data about religious groups in the United States. This ground is in some ways well trodden. The field has a very fine atlas in the form of Gaustad, Barlow, and Dishno’s New Historical Atlas […]
In the spring of 2013, I wrote two articles on the digital technologies that were changing the way we do history: one on blogging (Digital History: A Primer Part 1) and one on digitizing documents and images (Digital History: A Primer Part 2). I promised to write a third article on what I called “Digital […]
The interdisciplinary online journal Southern Spaces invites researchers, writers, teachers, artists, documentary producers, and geographers to submit materials for a 2017–2018 “Digital Spaces” series. We seek multi-media articles and projects that engage with and mobilize digital scholarship. “Digital Spaces” is especially interested in work that deals with the real and imagined spaces and places of […]
