In “Notes towards a Deformed Humanities,” Mark Sample writes, “I want to propose a theory and practice of a Deformed Humanities. A humanities born of broken, twisted things. And what is broken and twisted is also beautiful, and a bearer of knowledge. The Deformed Humanities is an origami crane—a piece of paper contorted into an […]
One reason I’m interested in ship logs is that they give some distance to think about problems in reading digital texts. That’s particularly true for machine learning techniques. In my last post, an appendix to the long whaling post, I talked about using K-means clustering and k-nearest neighbor methods to classify whaling voyages. But digital humanists […]
I’m giving a talk today at the POD Network conference in Seattle titled “Social Pedagogies: Motivating Students through Authentic Audiences.” Here’s the Prezi for my talk. You can move through the Prezi by clicking the forward button, or you can use your mouse to pan and zoom freely through the Prezi. See Prezi Here
Changing my form of communication reminds me of my audience. The challenges of communicating through the digital highlight the corresponding issues faced by readers of this non-traditionally presented content. My master’s thesis involved a user study evaluating the use of well-established digital humanities archives by a wider audience, a group I still refer to as […]
There has been increasing discussion about the evaluation of digital humanities work. Digital Humanities Now and the Journal of Digital Humanities are developing resources to help the producers and evaluators of digital humanities scholarship. We are doing this in two ways: 1) We will build a bibliography of existing statements and institutional policies in the […]
What follows is a comprehensive list of digital humanities sessions at the 2013 Modern Language Association Conference in Boston. These are sessions that in some way address the influence and impact of digital materials and tools upon language, literary, textual, and media studies, as well as upon online pedagogy and scholarly communication. The 2013 list […]
As applied to writing studies, text network analysis (TNA) is a method by which a researcher can trace the circulation of meaning within a text. Meaning is generated when different pieces of information are related to one another in some way; naturally, though, bits of information can only be seen as relationalaccording to some system or […]
Contact: Micah Vandegrift and the Open Access Now Editorial Board Editors [at] oanow.org Open Access Now launched today, a resource for news and information about open access and scholarly publishing. The goal of OANow is to provide a centralized, regularly updated, curated news feed, accomplished through active monitoring of scholarly, popular and niche sources. Built on the PressForward platform, which aims to […]
A big question for me, as a designer of text analysis tools for the humanities is: how do the tools I’m building fit in? Sure, you can have fancy word trees and grammatical search histograms. Sure, they’re chock-full of interesting information that you can make an argument about. But where exactly in the humanistic analysis […]
How should we understand the part played by code in digital media and learning? We are accustomed to arguments that digital media are affecting our existing practices of reading, looking, seeing and hearing, yet relatively little is said of how the underlying code and algorithmic architectures of software actually exert those effects. The work done […]
