Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant or Associate Professor and Director, Digital Studies Center, Rutgers

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 […]

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Editors’ Choice: Lessons Learned – Janet Murray

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 […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: International Data Curation Conference, Feb 24-27, 2014, San Francisco

*************************************************************** “Commodity, catalyst or change-agent? Data-driven transformations in research, education, business & society” 24-27 February 2014 Omni San Francisco Hotel, California Street, San Francisco, USA *************************************************************** #idcc14 Call for Papers The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) brings together data and information creators, managers, users, researchers, and teachers. The IDCC14 Programme Committee invites submissions to the […]

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Job: Tenure Track Assistant Professor of History (Digital Humanities) (IUPUI)

The Department of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) seeks a tenure-track assistant or associate professor in Digital Humanities, to begin August 1, 2014. We are looking for a scholar with a strong academic background in historical research. Period and area of specialization are open. Ph.D. required by August 1, 2014. http://www.digitalhistorians.org/2013/08/20/tenure-track-assistant-professor-of-digital-humanities-iupui/

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Job: Technology Specialist, Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America (http://dp.la) seeks a Technology Specialist to join its growing team and to further DPLA’s mission to bring together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and make them freely available to all. A belief in this mission and the drive to accomplish it over time in a collaborative spirit both […]

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Editors’ Choice: Does Digital Scholarship Have a Future?

Twenty years into the transformation initiated by the World Wide Web, we have grown accustomed to a head-spinning pace of technological and social change. Innovations that would have amazed us ten years ago are now merely passing news, as transient as a tweet. Music, video, and journalism have been profoundly altered—and we have grown used […]

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Editors’ Choice: Kindred Britain: A sign of our times

Today marks the public release of Kindred Britain, a new interactive scholarly work that explores the role of family in British culture. Integrating geospatial, temporal, and network information visualization, this project attempts to demonstrate the genealogical interconnectedness of the British elite. In doing so it expands the notion of Britishness, and the notion of society and […]

Announcements, News

Launch: Visual Culture of the American Civil War

The historical record of the American Civil War includes a vast amount of visual material—photographs, illustrated news periodicals, comic publications, individually-published prints, almanacs, political cartoons, illustrated envelopes, trade cards, greeting cards, sheet music covers, money, and more. The era’s visual media heralded an unprecedented change in the production and availability of pictorial media in everyday […]