Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoctoral Fellowships, Council on Library and Information Resources

Since CLIR accepts new proposals to host fellows from interested institutions throughout the year, the list below will change frequently. Not all 2013 position descriptions will be available by the December 31, 2012 application deadline. All interested applicants with expertise in any discipline are encouraged to apply, regardless of whether a suitable position description is […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Tenure-Track Faculty, MIT Media Lab

The Media Lab is an antidisciplinary research organization focusing on the invention of new media technologies that radically improve the ways people live, learn, work, and play. Candidates should have a record of original thinking, a willingness to take risks, a desire to look beyond traditional disciplines, and a commitment to making a difference in […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Tenure Track position, Media Circulation and Convergence, Northwestern U.

The Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University seeks a tenure-track assistant professor working on the interface and interpenetration of different media, communication and cultural technologies, and media circulation studies.   We are particularly interested in candidates who might affiliate with the University’s new initiative in Asian languages and cultures.

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: How a small museum can create BIG digital projects: A Case Study of the Museum of Inuit Art | Edgital

A friend of mine, Lindsay Bontoft, recently started working at the Museum of Inuit Art (MIA). It is a very small museum in Toronto, Canada with three full-time and one part-time staff as well as an Executive Director. Yet they have managed what many larger museums have not – a wide array of both online and onsite […]

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Editors’ Choice: Image Processing and Software Epistemology

Turning everything into data, and using algorithms to process is analyze it has a number of major consequences for what it means to know something. It creates new strategies which together make up software epistemology. Epistemology is a branch of philosophy which asks questions such as what is knowledge, how it can acquired, and to what […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: NEH Calls for Comments on Digital Projects for the Public Grant Program Guidelines

NEH Calls for Comments on Digital Projects for the Public Grant Program Guidelines | National Endowment for the Humanities. NEH seeks comments to help the agency assess how well these guidelines for a new funding opportunity accomplish the following goals: encourage the integration of new digital technologies in traditional humanities spaces; foster the development of […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Evaluation and Assessment of Digital Humanities Scholarship

We are looking for new and existing pieces on methods and standards for evaluating digital humanities scholarship to include in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities. Our goal is to bring together resources from a variety of sources to help the producers and evaluators of digital humanities scholarship better frame, discuss, and […]

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Editors’ Choice: Discovery and Justification are Different: Notes on Science-ing the Humanities

Computer Scientist: “You can’t do that with Topic Modeling.” Humanist: “No, I can because I’m not a scientist. We have this thing called Hermeneutics.” Computer Scientist: “…” Humanist: “No really, we get to do what we want, we read texts against each other, and then there is this hermeneutic circle grounded in intersubjectivity.” Computer Scientist: “Ok, but you still […]

News, Resources

Resource: The Writing Studies Tree

The Writing Studies Tree (WST,writingstudiestree.org) is an online, open-access, crowdsourced database of scholarly relationships within writing studies, composition/rhetoric and related academic fields. Created by Graduate Center students in 2011-2012, the WST combines a fixed data structure with open editing privileges to rapidly aggregate the work of thousands of individuals’ small data entry efforts into scalable […]

News, Reports

Report: Innovating Pedagogy 2012

The series of reports explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation. The first report proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on education: Assessment for learning Badges to accredit learning Learning analytics MOOCs […]