The years following the Second World War saw major changes to American society, from the rise of suburbs to powerful social movements to shifting international priorities. Within that change, popular culture took on a new significance in American life as television spread across the country and radio stations increasingly shifted to music-only formats. With that […]
What would you ask if you could analyze the news yourself? Each day, cable TV news networks determine what information millions of Americans receive. They also set the context and tone of the information presented. Editorial decisions, about who appears on cable TV news and what they talk about, shape public opinion and culture. Many newsrooms and monitoring organizations, […]
Reporting to the Director of Digital Studies, the Associate Director of Digital Studies manages the administrative work for the MA, BA/MA, undergraduate Minor, and Graduate Certificate in Digital Studies of Language, Culture, and History. This encompasses business operations, event execution, and faculty- and student-related administrative work for the Program in Digital Studies. The Associate Director […]
Replaying Japan is an international conference dedicated to the study of Japanese video games. For the first time this year, the conference is held online and will combine various types of research contents (videos, texts, livestreams) on the theme of esport and competitive gaming in Japan. Read full post here.
I am now at the second part of the trinity previously mentioned in this article: the encoding. This portion of the work has already been partly explained in some of the first posts but it was mainly about the content of the XML tree that will be used for each letter of the corpus. This […]
GIScience / GIS / Geospatial Instructional Resources This collection emphasizes Open Educational Resources for the teaching and learning – about and with – GIScience, GIS, and related geospatial and mapping technologies. Read full post here.
.entry-header If you search for how to compare two lists in Python, you will find a lot of helpful pages in a lot of places, many of which assume you are working with numbers or you want exact matches. But what if you want to compare all the items in one list with all the […]
A new white paper published today (Tuesday 4 August) explores the great potential for ground-breaking new research at the intersection between data science and humanities disciplines and offers key recommendations for funders, academic institutions, and researchers. Read full post here.
Between April 16 and 20, 2020 the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS), in conjunction with the California Institute of Health Equity and Action(Cal-IHEA), polled 8,800 registered voters about a variety of issues concerning the current state of politics and COVID-19. This was an unprecedented and urgently needed pulse-taking of the California populace during the pandemic. […]
Welcome to a college history class! You’ve probably learned strategies for reading books, articles, even blog posts (maybe). But in this class you’re going to listen to podcasts as a way to learn. So how do you do it? Read full post here.
