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CFP: Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries 2019

From the CFP: The Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL) is excited to announce that its 49th Conference to be held from June 2-9, 2019, on the happy island of Aruba, will focus on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) which are the framework of the UN 2030 agenda. Our conference theme is: Access […]

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Job: Digital Humanities Senior Research Scientist, MIT

From the ad: Develop tools for unlocking faculty research in the humanities at MIT. Program frameworks in Python and JavaScript for immediate use and/or that can be reused in future Digital Humanities projects. Aided by Postdoctoral Associates, manages the work of undergraduate researchers in building out aspects of faculty research and teaching. Stay abreast of […]

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Resource: Database tracks rise of canonic techniques in music

About the resource: A comprehensive database tracking more than 2,000 of the earliest surviving music compositions using ‘canonic’ techniques has been developed by a team of Australian university researchers. Music teachers, students, performers, composers and music lovers can browse the online database to find these earliest examples of multipart music using techniques of pervasive melodic […]

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CFP: Informed Experiences, Designing Consent Symposium

From the CFP: Informed Experiences, Designing Consent is a symposium interrogating the intersections of consent and the design of interactive media and technologies. The symposium is hosted at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago by the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and the HASTAC Scholars fellowship program on April 6, […]

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Report: A “Digital Research in Early America” Recap

From the report: In October 2018, I participated in the WMQ-UCI Digital Research in Early America workshop hosted by Sharon Block and Josh Piker at University of California-Irvine. This post aims to give those who weren’t able to attend an idea of the conversations and common themes of the new scholarship presented. Most broadly, the […]

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Report: Best Practices for Approaching Indigenous New Media

From the report: The following list was compiled out of the Symposium for Indigenous New Media (#SINM18), which was held as part of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) in June, 2018. We welcome your feedback and suggestions in the comments below. Be a good relation building meaningful relationships with community and individuals. It requires […]

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CFP: Special Issue of Social Media + Society – Marginality and Social Media

From the CFP: We seek manuscripts that include a novel analysis of data and meaningfully engage with theory on marginalization. We follow Linabary and Corple’s (2018) call to “study up” – start research from the lived experience of such groups for understanding. “Meaningful engagement” includes (but is not limited to): emphasizing the links between marginalization theory and […]

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Resource: Finding Data for Mapping – Tips and Tricks

From the resource: In the mapping workshops that we offer, a recurrent question refers to where to get the data. Every time students attend one of these workshops, all the datasets are given to them, so it is understandable that many might wonder where the instructors get this information from. This is what inspired us […]

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Job: Postdoctoral Fellowships – Data Science, Vanderbilt University

From the ad: The Data Science Institute (DSI) at Vanderbilt University invites applications for its first cohort of DSI postdoctoral fellows. Fellows will be expected to carry out an independent research program in collaboration with one or more faculty mentors who are affiliated with the DSI. Fellows will come from a diverse range of backgrounds […]