This animated thematic map narrates the spatial history of the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire. To teachers and researchers, the presentation offers a carefully curated archive of key documentary evidence. To all viewers, the map suggests an argument about the strategies of the rebels and the tactics of counterinsurgency, about the […]
The Journal of Digital Humanities: Post-Publication Review or the Worst of Peer Review, by Adeline Koh – August 29, 2013 The problems of traditional peer review are well known. Peer review is not transparent; it takes too long; the true blindness of peer review is questionable, especially in small fields; its gatekeeping function encourages the […]
The Digital Humanities Caucus of the American Studies Association seeks ASA conference attendees to participate in a session entitled Digital Shorts: New Platforms of Knowledge and Dissent. The session will consist of “lightning talks” in which participants describe digital projects in 3-5 minute presentations, receive community feedback, and discuss issues raised by the talks. These […]
In order to shape and secure the future of innovative teaching and research at ISAW and beyond, we work with others to nurture new and important open information resources for the ancient world, especially those that connect and contextualize information across institutional, methodological, and technological divides. Accordingly, our Senior Digital Humanities Web Developer/Architects envision, create, and curate web applications […]
The University of California, Santa Barbara, one of ten campuses of the University of California system, seeks applications for a GeoSpatial Data Curator (an Associate Specialist position) to work with faculty, students, researchers, and Library staff to develop strategies and programs for the collection, description, organization, normalization, storage, preservation, integration, visualization and mining of geospatial […]
For this series, we have identified some initial topics. This list is in no way comprehensive; we encourage you to propose books outside of the topics below if they relate to practices in the digital humanities. Building archives using various tools and techniques Architecting user experiences for various audiences (scholars, students, publics) Tracing digital culture […]
Seems like two out of three jobs we see advertized in Digital Humanities these days are in Germany (even not counting the recent mass recruitment at Greg Crane’s new shop in Leipzig!), which is both great news for everyone in this field, and a little bit sobering for those us seeing many of our best […]
We’ve been doing a lot of work lately using Gephi to visualise connections between authors, creative works, critical writing and events in the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Base. It’s pretty easy to get started, and here’s a writeup of the quick tutorial we gave participants in our Visualising Electronic Literature workshop last week. View Tutorial Here
Rutgers University-Camden seeks to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor or tenured associate professor as founding Director for the Digital Studies Center in the College of Arts and Sciences. The center will serve as the campus’s hub for scholarship and interdisciplinary research in digital studies. Candidate’s field of expertise is open, but should be knowledgeable about […]
At the Media Systems gathering Janet Murray made a clarion call for deeper fundamental research in computational media, moving forward interdisciplinary understanding through the creation of new genres: There has to be someplace where you say, “How do we reconfigure knowledge?” Because that is what happens when you have a new medium of representation, as with the […]
