From the ad: The Digital Public Library of America seeks an Engagement & Use Coordinator to help DPLA reach multiple audiences, and to make better and wider use of its large and growing open collection. This is a full-time position at DPLA’s headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts. The Engagement & Use Coordinator will work collaboratively with DPLA […]
The University of Kent is seeking at least one highly motivated and ambitious PhD candidate to apply to work within the field of Digital Humanities. The successful candidate(s) will join the exciting new research community of the Eastern Academic Research Consortium (EARC), which unites Kent with the Universities of East Anglia and Essex as a […]
From the ad: The School of Visual Arts and Design, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Central Florida seeks two assistant professors for research and teaching in digital media. These are nine-month, tenure-earning positions, the duties of which include teaching, research, and service. The anticipated start date is August 2016, pending the availability of […]
From the ad: The Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in Media Culture and History, to begin 1 July 2016. Applications are welcome from candidates working in or across any temporal period and within any theoretical paradigm. We […]
We are pleased to announce that the annual Personal Digital Archiving 2016 conference will be hosted at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on May 12-14, 2016. Read full CFP here.
The University Writing Program at UNC Charlotte is seeking an associate or full professor. The area of specialization is open, but possible specializations include multimodal composing, digital information literacy, online and hybrid learning environments, print-to-digital literacy, writing across media, or traditional and visual rhetoric. Read full job post here.
The connectivity of web-based networks and myriad digital applications have opened up vast new opportunities, formats, and audiences for writing. Blogs, texting, crowdsourced research, the hyperlink, and multimodal composition are now somewhat ubiquitous. Digital writing is not simply a matter of integrating new tools into an unchanged repertoire of writing processes. Rather, digital writing today […]
Creating a Twitter bot is a great exercise for formalizing a simple concept in a concrete implementation. Some of the best bots demonstrate this simplicity: a nugget of an idea, with the nuance in the details. To implement a bot usually requires some programming, some data wrangling, and a server. However, it can be easier. By […]
The University of California expands the reach of its research publications by issuing a Presidential Open Access Policy, allowing future scholarly articles authored by all UC employees to be freely shared with readers worldwide. Read announcement here.
The Digital Humanities Developer will provide technology support for digital humanities-focused projects by evaluating, implementing and managing relevant platforms and applications; the Developer will also analyze, transform and/or convert existing humanities-related data sets for staff, engage in creative prototyping of innovative applications, and provide technology consulting and instructional support for Libraries staff. Read job post […]
