Job Announcements, News

Job: Associate Professor Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZDEPARTMENT OF FILM & DIGITAL MEDIA Associate or Full Professor  See job posting here. The Department of Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, invites applications for a position in the theory, practice, and/or history of film and digital media at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor. Areas and media of specialization […]

News, Reports

Report: Digital Curation and the Cloud: Final Report

JISC has released Digital Curation and the Cloud: Final Report. This is a revised version of the draft report that was released earlier this year. Here’s an excerpt: Digital curation involves a wide range of activities, many of which may be suitable for deployment within a cloud environment. These range from infrequent, resource-intensive tasks which […]

Job Announcements, News

Postdoc: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities and New Media – AWID

The Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies (IWGS), the University of Winnipeg. Winnipeg, MB, Canada. Open until filled. Description: The Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies (IWGS) at the University of Winnipeg invites applications for a half time Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities and New Media starting as soon as possible, and lasting up to […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: MW2013: Museums and the Web 2013

Museums and the Web 2013: 17-20 April 2013 at the Marriott Downtown Waterfront, Portland, Oregon The MW program is built from the ground up, based on your suggestions for sessions, papers and presentations. Proposals are encouraged on any topic related to museums creating, facilitating, delivering or participating in culture, science and heritage through networked technologies […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: “There’s no Next about it”: Stanley Fish, William Pannapacker, and the Digital Humanities as paradiscipline dpod blog

In a posting to his blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education, William Pannapacker identified the Digital Humanities as an emerging trend at the 2009 Modern Language Association Convention. Amid all the doom and gloom of the 2009 MLA Convention, one field seems to be alive and well: the digital humanities. More than that: Among all the […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Crowdsourcing, Undergraduates, and Digital Humanities Projects

Crowdsourcing could be a silver bullet for integrating digital humanities methods into the undergraduate curriculum.  Why? Crowdsourcing means getting the general public to do tasks. Jeff Howe explains the phenomenon in “The Rise of Crowdsourcing” (Wired Magazine, June 2006) by analogy with outsourcing.  This method of labor is growing for scholarly and cultural heritage projects, and […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: HASTAC Scholars Nominations now open

We are thrilled to announce that we are now accepting nominations for HASTAC Scholars for 2012-2013. The HASTAC Scholars program is an innovative student community. The program is comprised of graduate & undergraduate students who come from dozens of disciplines at 75+ universities. The Scholars are all working at the intersection of technology and the […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships

ACLS invites applications for the eighth annual competition for the ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships, thanks to the generous assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship […]