Welcome to the section for the Disrupting Digital Monolingualism workshop, a one-and-a-half day event which will be held online on June 16th and 17th 2020. The workshop is hosted by the Language Acts & Worldmaking project with the support of the Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community project, both projects funded by the AHRC as part of […]
We like to complain about how data is messy, not in the right format, and how parts don’t make sense. Reality is complicated though. Data comes from the realities. Here are several guides to help with visualizing these realities, which seem especially important these days. Read the full resource here.
.entry-header This semester my students made a podcast. I just realized that though I’ve talked a lot about the podcast, I haven’t actually linked to the podcast here. So here it is, for all three of you who read my blog. I’m super proud of how the students did on this assignment despite the many, […]
From the resource: This reflection explores the functionality of two different web mapping applications: D3.js and Leaflet.js. Both of these applications require mastering the coding required which often involves a steep learning curve, however knowing the possibilities of web mapping applications that are software agnostic as well as open-source are useful for mapping enthusiasts. In […]
About the report: Today the journal History published the paper State of the Field: Digital History to which I had the pleasure to contribute together with Annemieke Romein, Julie Birkholz, James Baker, Michel de Gruijter, Albert Meroño-Peñuela, Thorsten Ries, Ruben Ros, and Stef Scagliola. In this paper we provide an overview of the current state […]
… Educational technology is strangely situated at many institutions (usually somewhere vaguely between academics and IT), which further frustrates necessary conversations across the teaching/technology divide. And, quite often, for-profit ed-tech companies take advantage of this situation through predatory marketing tactics — pitching their tools to the most powerful, least knowledgeable folks at an institution. The […]
About the report: The National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Agenda Working Group has recently announced the publication of the 2020 NDSA Agenda for Digital Stewardship. According to the Working Group, made up of Micah Altman (MIT Libraries), Karen Cariani (WGBH Media Library and Archives), Bradley Daigle (Academic Preservation Trust), Christie Moffatt (National Library of Medicine […]
Over the last decade and through several publications, I have shared the story of US Hispanic workers in their fight against fascism, which included fundraising for the victims, grassroots activism, and publication of periodicals. My book, Fighting Fascist Spain. Worker Protest from the Printing Press (2020), shows how workers’ print culture and politics, most prominently […]
The fallout from our current crises has not yet settled. As we have adapted to online iterations of our work, we have also experienced a profound loss of life, paired with an unprecedented economic collapse. How these crises might affect higher education writ large is perhaps already glimpsed by present conditions of austerity. For Digital […]
From the CFP: This workshop will be an online event. More details will follow, Organized by the DHLab of the KNAW Humanities Cluster… An important goal of this workshop is to find new ways of sharing our ‘research stories’. This includes the introduction of pre-registration of studies, which entails the submission of a registered report […]
