“The intellectual is still only an incompletely transformed writer” — Roland Barthes, Writing Degree Zero There could be many epigraphs hailing a discussion of digital writing, many pithy observations about its nature, becoming, qualities, mysteries, dilemmas. From Oscar Wilde: “A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.” Virginia Woolf: “We are nauseated by […]
CFP- Special Issue for the Fibreculture Journal: The Politics of Trolling and the Negative Space of the Internet | The Fibreculture Journal Edited By Jason Wilson, Christian McCrea and Glen Fuller A great deal of thinking about the Internet and politics is still structured by a desire for deliberative democracy. From 1993 – when Howard Rheingold […]
Job: Research Data Manager, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship at Columbia University | laurie n. taylor. Reporting to the Director of the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) (http://cdrs.columbia.edu/), a division of the Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, the Research Data Manager will work closely with the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research, staff […]
CFP: Open Access Week 2012 Networked Researcher Blogging Unconference To register to participate in this blogging unconference, please use the form at the bottom of this page. Open Access Week 2012 will take place October 22-28 all over the world. Networked Researcher is convinced, as the Open Access Week web site says, that “Open Access” to information […]
The top 20 data visualisation tools | Feature | .net magazine. One of the most common questions I get asked is how to get started with data visualisations. Beyond following blogs, you need to practise – and to practise, you need to understand the tools available. In this article, I want to introduce you to […]
http://disc.library.emory.edu/ows/ Emory University Library has collected over ten million tweets from the Occupy Wall Street Movement, beginning on 13 October 2011. While tweets are public, they are not archived or available unless a third party collects them. With Emory’s collection, scholars can better understand the relationship between a movement and social media. In an age of digital […]
Tenure Track position: Director of Public History with DH Focus | HASTAC. The Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte invites applications for a director of the Public History concentration within the M.A. program in History to begin August 2013. We intend to appoint a tenure-track faculty member at the Assistant/Associate Professor level. […]
Digital Cultural Heritage DC #DCHDC (Washington, DC) – Meetup. The inaugural meetup of the DCHDC will be on Thursday, September 20 at 7:00 pm at the upstairs bar at Stetson’s. We’ll start with three quick lightning talks, followed by spirited conversation. Lightning Talk Lineup: Viewshare and You: Digital Collection Visualization for the Rest of Us, Trevor Owens, Office […]
You know you’re a pretentious academic blogger when you start titling your posts in French, and if you can quote one of the most notoriously abstruse French philosophers at the same time, well that’s just a bonus. Jacques Derrida is not much in style these days (if he ever was). His ideas, and especially his prose, have […]
Social media content has grown exponentially in the recent years and the role of social media has evolved from just narrating life events to actually shaping them. In this paper we explore how many resources shared in social media are still available on the live web or in public web archives. By analyzing six different […]
