Humanities Watch, a new humanities advocacy site, explores how the humanities influence business, healthcare, science and technology. It poses questions, seeking to explore the broad impact of the humanities in our world. I caught up with Timothy Kircher, Founder and Editor of Humanities Watch over email to ask him some questions about the site. AC: Hello, […]
Below is an interview Jay Kirby conducted with me that’s been published in a special section, titled “Media Genealogy” and edited by Jeremy Packer and Alex Monea, of the International Journal of Communication 10 (2016). I’m grateful to Jay, Jeremy and Alex for all they work they did to put this issue together. Abstract: Jay […]
E3, The Electronic Entertainment Expo, was just last week, so there’s quite a bit of videogame news circulating about the internets right now. Amid the waves of game trailers and press releases, most of us could be forgiven for not knowing that during the hubbub of the convention, a number of scholars and educators held […]
As an archaeologist, I often talk about how objects have agency. They can make us move, act, and think in particular ways. The ‘Berlin key’, for example, forces users to lock doors whenever they are closed (see Bruno Latour‘s work). Monuments make us remember certain people and events in very particular ways. Many anthropologists now […]
tabsets For most of its issues in 1902, the Ellensburg [Washington] Dawn featured a quotation from Benjamin Franklin prominently on its front page. “A Bible and a newspaper in every house,” the masthead proclaimed, “are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.” Though the quotation from Franklin was doubtless spurious, the combination of […]
The “digital humanities” (usually translated as shuzi renwen 数字人文 in mainland China and shuwei renwen 數位人文 in Taiwan) have recently received a lot of attention in Chinese academic circles, even though it took a long time for the concept to come to the attention of mainland China universities. The first digital humanities centre in China […]
How do we incorporate technology into the contemporary classroom? How do we balance the needs of teaching literature with teaching students to use that technology? This article takes up “Digital Tools for the 21st Century: Sherlock Holmes’s London,” an introductory digital humanities class, as a case study to address these questions. The course uses the […]
Charlotte is a first person, horror, exploration game based on the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Charlotte is a first person video game that allows players to explore the world of the 19th century short story, The Yellow Wall-paper and its author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Players assemble their own narratives from primary materials and sources […]
This week I was in Luxembourg for a workshop on Network Visualisation in the Cultural Heritage Sector, organised by Marten Düring and held on the Belval campus of the University of Luxembourg. In my presentation, I responded to some of the questions posed in the workshop outline: In this workshop we want to explore how […]
This is the text of a short ‘provocation’ I presented at an event called Cityscapes: Past, Present and Future. The event took place at Senate House on the 1st of June 2016, and marked the launch of Cities@SAS – an initiative to create a cross-disciplinary dialogue about cities between the institutes of the School of Advanced […]
