Resource: Making Live-Tweeting Easier with Noter Live
Kevin Marks has created a web-based tool that helps those live-tweeting conferences. Lee Skallerup Bessette writes about Noter Live here.
Author: Lee Skallerup Bessette
Opportunity: Apply Now for Doing Digital History 2016
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 […]
Editors’ Choice: Where the Problem with Historical Data about U.S. Religion Really Lies
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 […]
Editors’ Choice: Public and Digital: Doing History Now
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 […]
CFP: Digital Spaces, A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
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 […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
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: 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 […]