CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: The IUDHies (International Undergraduate Digital Humanities Prize)

I think there ought to be an international undergraduate digital humanities prize. Undergraduate students do amazing work.  So maybe one of our academic organizations can put something together. But in the meantime, maybe we should collect example projects from the last few years, and maybe we can agree to award some informal IUDHies?   Read full CPF […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Professor Computational Approaches to Literature, Washington University

From the ad: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS. The Department of English seeks applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in English, American, or Anglophone literature, with literary subfield open, to begin in the fall semester of 2016; the candidate should have expertise in computational approaches to literary analysis and will be expected to make a […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: 2016 Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities

The Göttingen Dialog in Digital Humanities has established a forum for the discussion of digital methods applied to all areas of the Humanities and Social Sciences, including Classics, Philosophy, History, Literature, Law, Languages, Archaeology and more. The initiative is organized by the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH). We invite submissions of abstracts describing research which […]

Blog, Editors' Choice

The Year in Review at DHNow

As a warm winter holiday descends on us here at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, we’re once again compelled to take a look back at the year and the accomplishments of Digital Humanities Now. November marked our seventh year of publication and what started as Dan Cohen’s Twitter feed in 2009 has become a […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: How Digital Are the Digital Humanities? An Analysis of Two Scholarly Blogging Platforms

In this paper we compare two academic networking platforms, HASTAC and Hypotheses, to show the distinct ways in which they serve specific communities in the Digital Humanities (DH) in different national and disciplinary contexts. After providing background information on both platforms, we apply co-word analysis and topic modeling to show thematic similarities and differences between […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Museum as Play, Iteration, Interactivity, and the Human Experience

Thomas Padilla recently interviewed Sebastian Chan, the Chief Experience Officer at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Previously Chan held positions as Director of Digital & Emerging Media at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and Head of Digital, Social and Emerging Technologies at the Powerhouse Museum. His work spans consideration of digital and physical spaces and has been recognized […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Engagement Specialist, University of Cambridge

From the ad: The University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced person to help us transform the way that we engage with our audiences digitally. We are looking for someone who shares the UCM’s commitment to developing and diversifying our audiences, and who will work with the UCM team and […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: AHA, “AskHistorians,” Outreach and Its Challenges in an Online Space

AskHistorians is an all-volunteer, multi-platform new media forum with over 350,000 subscribers, making it the largest historical space of its kind on the internet. Unlike most outreach, the forum is structured like highly public “town hall meeting” on a global scale—a question-and-answer session in which knowledgeable experts publicly interact with individual questioners while an audience […]