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Opportunity: Call for nominations for 3 new aaDH Executive Committee positions

Call for nominations for 3 new aaDH Executive Committee positions – aaDH: Australasian Association for Digital Humanities The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) invites nominations for three new Executive Committee positions. The Association seeks to elect three Ordinary Members for 3-year terms beginning in 2013. To be eligible, candidates must be current members of the Australasian […]

Job Announcements, News

Job Advertisement: Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities

Job Advertisement: Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities | Michael Ullyot. The Department of English at the University of Calgary invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective July 1, 2013. We are seeking candidates with a completed PhD in English or a closely related discipline, a demonstrated scholarly record, intellectual breadth […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: On Digital Ethnography: mapping as a mode of data discovery (Part 2 of 4)

In my last post, I introduced the idea of using webscraping for the purpose of acquiring relevant ethnographic data. In this second post, I will concentrate on the next step of the ethnographic process: data processing and interpreting. Remember The Hsu-nami, the band that I talked in the last post? The image above is a screenshot of […]

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Opportunity: Free ALA Webinar on Digital Literacy and Libraries

Registration Open: Free ALA Webinar on Digital Literacy and Libraries | District Dispatch. How do librarians and educators keep up with the continual stream of new advancements? How do they motivate and support library staff in staying current? To facilitate a national dialogue on digital literacy education, the American Library Association (ALA) will host the […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: DiGRA 2013

CFP: DiGRA 2013 Call for Participation | laurie n. taylor The Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) announces the Call for Participation for DiGRA 2013, to be hosted by Georgia Institute of Technology at the Georgian Terrace Hotel in Atlanta Georgia. DiGRA 2013 will bring together a diverse international community of interdisciplinary researchers engaged in cutting […]

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Job: Digital Archivist, The Computer History Museum

Archives Gig – Mountain View, CA: Digital Archivist, The Computer History Museum. The Computer History Museum, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, seeks an articulate, creative & “can-do” individual for the Digital Archivist position. The Museum’s mission is to preserve and present for posterity the artifacts and stories of the information age. This […]

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CFP: Built Upon Series – Anvil Academic

Built Upon Series – CFP – Anvil Academic What we’re looking for We’re looking for proposals that advance discussions about what information-age analysis in the humanities should be and do. This doesn’t mean that we’re resistant to text-centric arguments, or that we’re simply uncritical boosters of any use of digital tools or algorithmic methods for […]

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You too can be a DHNow Editor-at-Large! Now recruiting for Spring, 2013

We here at Digital Humanities Now are thrilled to invite you to become part of our Editors-at-Large team! We are recruiting new and returning Editors-at-Large for the spring semester, 2013. Editors-at-Large monitor the work of the digital humanities community by reviewing aggregated RSS feeds from blogs, websites, and Twitter, and suggest content for publication in DHNow and the Journal of […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: A Text-Mining and Visualization Roundup

Editors’ Note: There were a number of recent posts discussing the use of text-mining and visualizations in humanities research. A few, offering a variety of perspectives, are presented below. Lev Manovich, the meaning of statistics and digital humanities  “Given that production of summaries is the key characteristics of human culture, I think that such traditional summaries […]