“What oft was thought but ne’er so well express’d” Alexander Pope’s eighteenth century advice to writers — now known as content producers — has a new relevance for the Internet Age, although in the discussion that follows, a more exact phrasing match might be, “It’s already a meme, but (driven by FOMO) I need to […]
The analysis I’m sharing today is a follow up to my earlier work on feminist manifestos, an effort to stretch the genre of manifesto to incorporate a play written by a women’s liberation group and a broadsheet created for the Feminist Studio Workshop. At the same time I became interested in whether it was possible […]
Humanists use historical images as sources of information about social norms, behavior, fashion, and other details of particular cultures, places and periods. Dutch Golden Era paintings, works by French Impressionists, and 20th century street photography are just three examples of such images. Normally such visuals directly show objects of interests such as social scenes, city […]
Data management underpins current and future research, funder mandates, open access initiatives, researchers’ reputations, and institutional ranking. While it is widely recognized that it’s necessary to provide data management support, recognition that it requires sustainable funding is slower in coming. Read full report here.
This talk by Amanda Visconti “Digital Dissertations in an Increasingly Welcoming Landscape” explores a uniquely shaped humanities dissertation, which included the design, code, and user-testing of an experimental social reading interface. Watch video here.
In November 2015, I represented the Omeka team at IMLS’s Focus conference held in New Orleans to share the latest developments in the Omeka software family. Below are my slides, and the notes from my talk. I am here representing the Omeka team at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, and we […]
Ted Underwood and David Bamman 1500-word abstract of a paper delivered Sat, Dec 9th, at MLA 2016, in a panel with Deidre Lynch and Andrew Piper. By visualizing course evaluations, Ben Schmidt has reminded us how subtly (and irrationally) descriptions of real people are shaped by gendered expectations. Men are praised for being funny, and […]
I’m really excited about the course I’m teaching this semester. DIKULT303: Digital Media Aesthetics is a graduate seminar with a topic that changes from year to year, and this year it will be about machine vision, my current obsession, and a topic I think is going to be immensely important over the next decades. The […]
Your institution likely already has some web form or email address, attached to some type of internal workflow (¯\_(ツ)_/¯), for ingesting public feedback about the content or presentation of your collections information. GitHub repositories have a light issue tracking system turned on by default, the idea being that any GitHub user can quickly post up […]
One of my side projects (eventually to turn into a main project) is figuring out what can be done with historical data about religious groups in the United States. This ground is in some ways well trodden. The field has a very fine atlas in the form of Gaustad, Barlow, and Dishno’s New Historical Atlas […]
