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Resource: Helping the World to Teach

Helping the World to Teach | Research Blog. In July, Research at Google ran a large open online course, Power Searching with Google, taught by search expert, Dan Russell. The course was successful, with 155,000 registered students. Through this experiment, we learned that Google technologies can help bring education to a global audience. So we packaged up the technology […]

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Symposium: Archives & Activism

New York Archives Week 2012 Symposium: Archives & Activism Co-sponsored by the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc. and the New School Libraries and Archives Friday, October 12, 2012 Theresa Lang Community and Student Center Arnhold Hall, The New School 55 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011 8:30am to 6:00pm

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Job: Stanford Seeks Digital Historian

The ATS position falls within the rising tide of hybrid alternative academic (#alt-ac) careers. The ATS will have an office within the History department in order to assure proximity and availability to faculty, but will report to a manager in the Academic Technology Specialist Program (ATSP) a unit of Stanford University Libraries. The ATS will […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The University in the Digital Age: The Big Questions (TILTS 2011) – YouTube Video

Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies 2011 “The Digital and the Human(ities)” The keynote lecture by Alan Liu (University of California at Santa Barbara) started the second symposium of the institute. The lecture was transmitted from New Jersey via Skype. Introduction: Sam Baker TILTS 2011 directors: Matt Cohen & Lars Hinrichs

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Big Data and the Dawn of the Super Researcher

In separate “big data” presentations at the Digital Preservation 2012meeting, Myron Guttmann of the National Science Foundation andLeslie Johnston of the Library of Congress described scenarios that seemed futuristic and fantastic but were in fact present-day realities. Both presenters spoke about researchers using powerful new processing tools to distill information from massive pools of data. Imagine, say, a researcher […]

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Job: English Tenure Track Professor in Digital Humanities – North Carolina State University

The Department of English at North Carolina State University seeks to make an Assistant/Associate tenure-track appointment in Digital Humanities. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to help build the digital humanities curriculum in undergraduate and graduate programs in English and in the interdisciplinary doctoral program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, and to develop […]

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Postdoc: Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship | Modernist Versions Project

The Modernist Versions Project seeks expressions of interest from exceptional candidates who would like to apply for a Banting postdoctoral fellowship. The Banting fellowship, which emphasizes fit between the candidate and the host institution, is highly competitive. The successful applicant will have to be an emerging leader in her or his field. We especially seek individuals […]

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Seminar: “Digital Humanities and the Study of the Web and Web Archives”

This seminar is jointly organized by  NetLab Denmark. It will take place from 3rd until 5th of December 2012 at the Hotel Vejleford in Denmark. Today the Internet is the medium which holds the most multifaceted set of materials documenting contemporary social, cultural, and political life. It has become the fulcrum for the general development of media, including mass media and a […]

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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 […]