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 […]
*Editors’ Note: American History Now is the newest journal to be launched as part of the Pressforward Project. Have you got some research, a small conclusion, an idea or possibility; some piece of work which isn’t really suitable for the standard journal format? Maybe a piece which doesn’t fit easily in any single discipline? Would you […]
This paper examines the state of the current digital humanities canon, provides a historical overview of the decline of early digitally recovered texts, literature designed to expand the literary canon, and offers suggestions for ways that the field might work toward expansion of the digital canon. My research shows that a subfield of early literary […]
A few weeks ago, I posed the idea of global prayer metrics. I compared the function of prayer notices to journalism and reflected on the theology of quantifying prayer. Today’s post is a thought experiment and dataviz on measuring global religious activity across cultures. During a brainstorm with Andy Moore and James Doc at the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students a few […]
