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Editors’ Choice: Ethnography in Communities of Big Data

Across the field of health and wellness there is a lot of talk about data, from consumer self-tracking and Quantified Self data, to data-driven, personalized health care, to data-intensive, crowd sourced, scientific discovery. But what are these different stakeholders talking about when they talk about data and are they talking about the same thing? At […]

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Job: Postdoctoral Fellowships at Occidental College’s Center for Digital Learning + Research

The Center for Digital Learning + Research at Occidental College is currently offering a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship focused on digital scholarship. Thanks to the continued generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Occidental’s CDLR will be hiring two fellows for terms beginning with the 2014-15 academic year.   Read the full posting here.

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Editors’ Choice: Excavating Age of Empires

In…Age of Empires, we see that an easy to grasp, difficult to master theory can sit inside an equally easy to play, difficult to master strategy game, a point where complex historical modelling – even if those models are incomplete or overturned – has a positive influence on the development on a style of gameplay. […]

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Editors’ Choice: Digital Historiography and the Archives

The following series of blog posts by Joshua Sternfeld, Katharina Hering, Kate Theimer, and Michael Kramer is based on our session at the AHA meeting in 2014 on Digital Historiography and the Archives. We conceptualized the session as an interdisciplinary roundtable discussion. Short presentations by each panelist led to a rich and multifaceted discussion with the audience. […]