Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant or Associate Professor of Media Theory, Pomona College, Media Studies

H-Net Job Guide. The Media Studies Department at Pomona College, a member of the Claremont Colleges, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professorship in Media Theory, beginning July 1, 2013. Candidates should have a strong background in Media Theory from a Critical Theoretical and/or Cultural Studies perspective, an active and exciting research profile, […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Closing the Evaluation Gap

With this fourth issue we wrap up the first year of the Journal of Digital Humanities, and with it, our first twelve months of attempting to find and promote digital scholarship from the open web using a system of layered review. The importance of assessment and the scholarly vetting process around digital scholarship has been foremost […]

News, Reports

Report: SPEC Kit 332: Organization of Scholarly Communication Services (November 2012)

This SPEC Kit explores how research institutions are currently organizing staff to support scholarly communication services, and whether their organizational structures have changed since 2007, when member libraries were surveyed about their scholarly communication education initiatives. SPEC Kit 332: Organization of Scholarly Communication Services (November 2012).

News, Resources

Resource: Costing Out a Small Digital Humanities Lab

To answer the question, how much does it cost to start a small digital humanities lab; first, consider the most expensive element: personnel. The other costs: a few computers, web-hosting, software, and furniture are relatively inexpensive. The other big issue, and one where the costs may not necessarily be monetary, is physical space. Is there […]

News, Resources

Resource: Getting Started with Charts in R

So you want to make some charts in R, but you don’t know where to begin. This straightforward tutorial should teach you the basics, and give you a good idea of what you want to do next. Getting Started with Charts in R.

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Carleton College Humanities Center: New Digital Humanities Associates Positions for Students

Two to three students from both Carleton and St. Olaf will be selected to learn a few carefully chosen, important Digital Humanities technologies.  They will train intensively with staff members in IT and the Library from both colleges during the month of January 2013.  They will then “practice” these technologies through working consistently on a […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: alt.dh.edu — Digital Humanities special panel, Northeastern U. 3/16-3/17/2013, proposals due 1/15

As part of the 7th annual Northeastern University English Graduate Student Association Conference, alt/, we seek proposals for a special roundtable on innovative digital approaches to literary, historical, and/or cultural materials. alt.dh.edu — Digital Humanities special panel — 3/16-3/17/2013, proposals due 1/15 | cfp.english.upenn.edu.

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Tapestry Conference: Weaving Stories and Data

Tapestry is a new conference on storytelling with data. While it focuses on visual ways of telling stories in journalism, there will be a broad range of topics, and a line-up of amazing speakers. The conference is limited to 100 participants, and invite-only. We are looking for more people who are interested in storytelling with data. […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Whose History is it Anyway? Public History in Perspective Conference – September 2013 – University of Central Lancashire

This is a multi-disciplinary conference aimed at a wide range of history and heritage practitioners making no distinction between professionals and non-professionals. Papers are thus invited from academic historians, those working or volunteering in the museum, heritage and archives sectors, those working in the media, film makers, funding bodies, policy makers, publishers, along with family, […]