CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Documentary Project on Women in Gaming Culture

My colleague Jennifer deWinter and I are putting together a short documentary project, and we are looking for contributors. We are seeking contributions from women engaged in gaming culture as players, critics, scholars, creators, and the like. We are planning a scholarly documentary in which women read the comments that they have received for making public […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Online Community Strategist, HASTAC

Be HASTAC’s online community strategist. Job responsibilities will include web site administrator and builder, new media strategy and implementation, digital media and learning competition technical support, being a team member, institutional coordination, digital communication, and EAGER project manager and collaborator. View job ad here. 

Job Announcements, News

Job: WEF Executive Director

The Wiki Education Foundation (WEF) is a new non-profit organization which supports innovative uses of and content creation for Wikipedia and related projects in communities of teaching, learning and inquiry by encouraging collaboration among Wikipedia editors, educators and researchers and students. The WEF’s principal initiative is the U.S. and Canada Wikipedia Education Program (“the program”), which connects […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: App Camp for Girls

We put on two week-long programs, where girls 12 to 14 learned how to brainstorm, design, build, and pitch iPhone apps. We also raised $106K via our Indiegogo campaign, thanks to the incredible support from our community of app developers, designers and geeks of all stripes. We are working on plans for Summer 2014, including expanding camp […]

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Job: Digital Publications Developer

Reporting to the Digital Publications Manager, the Digital Publications Developer will be a key position in building a multi-faceted digital publications program for the Getty. The Digital Publications Developer supports Getty Publications in the creation of digital books across a variety of formats and platforms; in the management of digital assets and workflows for creating […]

News, Reports

Report: Waitsourcing, Approaches to Low-Effort Crowdsourcing | Follow the Crowd

Crowdsourcing is often approached as a full-attention activity, but it can also be used for applications so small that people perform them almost effortlessly. What possibilities are afforded by pursuing low-effort crowdsourcing? Low-effort crowdsourcing is possible through a mix of low-granularity tasks, unobtrusive input methods, and an appropriate setting. Exploring the possibilities of low-effort crowdsourcing, we […]

News, Resources

Resource: The Future of Accessibility with BrailleSC.org and BrailleRISE

We set out to create a free and easy‐to‐use plugin for WordPress that creates Braille texts from WordPress posts, allowing any WordPress site to share the products of their text‐based projects with this often‐neglected audience of readers. Originally, we planned to extend the use of Anthologize—a free and open source plugin for WordPress that currently […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Fellowships in Academic Libraries — CLIR

Radical changes in the information landscape are transforming traditional academic roles and the roles of libraries within the academy. This program prepares a new generation of librarians, scientists, and scholars for work at the intersections of scholarship, teaching and librarianship in the emerging research environment. CLIR Postdoctoral Fellows in Academic Libraries work on projects that […]