I had the opportunity to return to Carnegie Mellon this week to lecture on archives and access, which was a real pleasure. My friend and former colleague, Jon Klancher, heard the talk and asked if I had plans to publish it. Unfortunately, I’m not in a position to do that now. But I thought it […]
I am currently teaching a graduate course (eng630: “Digital Humanities”: Emerging Tools and Debates in Literary Study) and, as much as possible, I’m trying to make clear the mechanics behind some of the text-analysis in the works we’re reading. So, this week, as I prepared to discuss Stephen Ramsay’s Reading Machines, I wanted to reproduce some […]
Sixteen months after the relaunch of Digital Humanities Now, it is time again to offer a glimpse behind the scenes. While many of the trends we identified in our six month report remain stable, there have been two significant changes in our editorial process. First, we have reduced our publication cycle from daily to twice […]
My research is based on creativity in teaching and learning elementary social studies. My teaching involves helping students as they create products for elementary social studies teachers, non-profit organizations, and cultural institutions that work with elementary school audiences. Because elementary teachers have limited amounts of time for social studies, if they teach it at all, […]
On December 21, 2012, Blake Ross—the boy genius behind Firefox and currently Facebook’s Director of Product—posted this Some friends and I built this new iPhone app over the last 12 days. Check it out and let us know what you think! The new iPhone app was Facebook Poke. One of the friends was Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder […]
This post is substantially the same as a talk I delivered at the University of Nebraska on Friday, Feb 8th. In recent months I’ve had several conversations with colleagues who are friendly to digital methods but wary of claims about novelty that seem overstated. They believe that text mining can add a new level of precision […]
Interview with artist and media critic Alessandro Ludovico by Janneke Adema. The interview focuses on the post-digital print condition, print-digital hybrids, independent and networked publishing and the potential of post-digital print projects to question, disturb, and subvert existing hegemonic and exploitative practices and institutions. http://culturemachinepodcasts.podbean.com/2013/02/06/post-digital-print-and-networks-of-independent-publishing-alessandro-ludovico/ Culture Machine Live is a podcast series dedicated to discussions of […]
Many, many events have come and gone without comment in the last two months on this blog. Significantly, in January I went to both the AHA in New Orleans and to the Digital Humanities Winter Institute (DHWI) at the University of Maryland. On the former, there’s a post brewing particularly about a round table I […]
as i mentioned in my last post, the ”short guide to digital humanities” (pages 121-136 of digital_humanities, by anne burdick, johanna drucker, peter lunenfeld, todd presner, and jeffrey schnapp, mit press, 2012) includes the following stricture under the heading “what isn’t the digital humanities?”: the mere use of digital tools for the purpose of humanistic research and communication […]
“Knowledge is power: information is the fabric of knowledge; the controller of information wields power.” –”Some Laws of Personal Computing,” Byte 1979 (Lewis 191) “If a system is to serve the creative spirit, it must be entirely comprehensible to a single individual…Any barrier that exists between the user and some part of the system will eventually be […]
