The John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow in public humanities for the academic year 2012-2013. While the nature of an applicant’s specific interests and areas of expertise is left open, these should be complementary to the present makeup of the Center. Areas of interest: documentary studies, […]
The UCLA Library has released two videos on ARL’s Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. Peter Jaszi and Brandon Butler are the featured speakers. Introducing the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, Part 1 Introducing the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and […]
Functioning under administrative direction in the library technical services department, employee works to set up, design, maintain, and support library web systems including web server, web pages, distributed web content provisioning, web applications, and electronic resource access through library webs and digital libraries including digitization and incorporation of library materials.
Computational processes generate lists: lists of numbers, lists of words, lists of coordinates, lists of properties. We transform these lists into more exalted forms — visualizations, maps, information systems, software tools — but the list remains the fundamental data structure of computing, from which most other structures are derived. Whenever we treat the world as […]
Graduate Student Conference: Innovations & Anxieties: 2012 University of Rhode Island | Public History Links and News. Innovations and Anxieties Saturday, March 31, 2012 Innovations cross a multitude of interdependent fields: aesthetic, scientific, technological, historical, informational, educational, political, and ethical. Across these fields, innovation cleaves fault lines between, for instance, the hope for cosmopolitan betterment […]
The Classroom As Interface: a CFP for MLA 2013 | Kathi Inman Berens. The Classroom As Interface Call for Papers MLA 2013 Boston, MA Jan. 3-6 300-word abstract & bio due Wed. 3/15/2012 to kathiberens [at] gmail [dot] com
| DMLcentral. One postdoctoral position is available in the Digital Media & Learning Research Hub, at the UC Humanities Research Institute, based on the Irvine campus. The postdoctoral scholar will collaborate in a MacArthur Foundation-funded research network on Connected Learning, investigating how new digital and networked media can support interest-driven and socially connected forms of […]
H-Net Discussion Networks – ACRL Digital Humanities Discussion Group. A new discussion group has been created for ACRL members interested in discussing ideas related to Digital Humanities and the role of librarians in this emerging discipline.The mailing list already has over 300 members who are beginning to examine how libraries can help support digital humanities […]
Interview with Janet Murray by Henry Jenkins I first met Janet Murray when I arrived at MIT almost 25 years ago. At the time, she was working on her book, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace, while I was working on Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture. Murray, along with […]
Todd Presner (Duke ’94), gave the following presentation at Duke on January 24 entitled “Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities: From Berlin to Los Angeles and Beyond.” Presner, Professor of Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature at UCLA, where he is the Director of UCLA’s Center for Jewish Studies and Chair of the Digital Humanities Program, […]
