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Job: Associate Director of Online Instructional Design, UPenn

From the posting: The Associate Director of Online Instructional Design will be a key member of the Online Learning Initiative (OLI) and the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) to help both organizations support faculty across Penn’s twelve schools in the development of online courses and best practices. Find out more: ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ONLINE […]

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Resource: Supporting Client-side API and Linked Data Consumption

From the post: In my post on consuming of linked data using Javascript, I talked about a couple technologies that are critical to being able to use linked data in client-side applications. Making an API or linked data friendly for client-side consumers requires support for a variety of technologies. In this post, I’m going to […]

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Resource: Are You For Real? Exploring Virtual Reality Within The Academic Setting

From the article: Virtual reality is all the rage these days, with options ranging from complete virtual worlds real or imagined, to new programs that allow users to conduct surgery on digital patients. According to Educause, VR “uses visual, auditory, and sometimes other sensory inputs to create an immersive, computer-generated environment. VR headsets fully cover […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Ada Issue 11, Open Issue

From the CFP: Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology: We invite contributions featuring research on gender, new media and technology. We are particularly interested in contributions that exemplify Ada’s commitments to politically engaged, intersectional approaches to scholarship on gender, new media and technology. Contributions in formats other than the traditional essay are […]

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Announcement: UTA Team Develops Digital Archive to Preserve Music by Alumni, Students, Local artists

A new website developed at The University of Texas at Arlington plans to make music produced by UTA music students, alumni, professors and independent artists in the North Texas region available for free to the world. Read More: UTA team develops digital archive to preserve music by alumni, students, local artists – UTA News Center

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Job: Assistant Professor – Critical Computation and New Media

The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) at the University of Toronto Mississauga invites applications for a tenure-stream appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of Critical Computation and New Media. This appointment will begin July 1, 2017. Find out more: Job Description – Assistant Professor – Critical Computation and […]

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CFP: Technocrime Research at the Margins

From the CFP: The Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology invites submissions for a special issue entitled “Technocrime Research at the Margins.” JQCJC seeks manuscripts focusing on qualitative examinations of technocrime (or “cybercrime”) and crime control issues to help alleviate the dizziness induced by our computer-mediated times. Source: CFP: Technocrime Research at the Margins

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Resource: Managing Metadata in Omeka Classic

This screencast offers tips and tricks for managing your metadata in Omeka Classic (standalone), using both features of the Omeka core and the following plugins: Library of Congress Suggest, Getty Suggest, Simple Vocab, and Search by Metadata. Source: Managing Metadata in Omeka Classic on Vimeo

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Report: 2016 Virtual Symposium Proceedings

From the posting: We are pleased to announce that content from the Virtual Symposium on Information and Technology in the Arts and Humanities is now available for viewing or download on YouTube and figshare. Presenter slides are available at http://figshare.com/authors/Symposium_on_Information_and_technolology_in_the_arts_and_humanities/740215 Symposium presentation recordings are available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2v-vQy9W5DeXsuC5-l-T65WgFrPFKNDk Source: 2016 Virtual Symposium Proceedings | ASIS&T SIG AH

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Job: Digital Scholarship Librarian, Boston College

From the posting: The Digital Scholarship Librarian will employ both experience with History research methods and technical expertise to advance the integration of library liaison responsibilities and digital humanities to the History Department. We are seeking a creative librarian familiar with History collections and instruction who is motivated to investigate new tools and collaborate with faculty, students, and […]