March 18, 2013, 8:00 am
By Prof. Hacker
[This is a guest post by Seth Denbo, project coordinator for Project Bamboo at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities. Seth is a cultural historian of eighteenth-century England, has worked on projects in digital history, and is also a convenor of a new seminar in digital history at the Institute of Historical Research.]
When I’m confronted with a new dataset or a recently digitized resource that might be relevant to my research, my first thought isn’t “Oh wow, there are lots of cool things I can do with this material!” Instead, it’s usually more like “Where do I begin?”
For all the excitement around digital scholarship, the problem of knowing how to set about using computers for research can be a significant barrier for scholars who may not feel they have the skills or expertise to pursue computational methodologies. In fact, there are many…
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March 4, 2013, 8:00 am
By George Williams
Launched in September of 2010, Digital Humanities Questions & Answers is a joint venture of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and ProfHacker. (See Julie Meloni’s launch announcement.)
Digital Humanities Questions and Answers (@DHAnswers on Twitter) is designed to be a free resource where anyone with an interest in the digital humanities can pose a question to the community of folks working in the field.
Since we last checked in with the site, many interesting threads have been launched and several “best answers” have been provided. Below, I’ve provided links to a few of the threads with best answers:
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February 27, 2013, 8:00 am
By Prof. Hacker
December 4, 2012, 8:00 am
By Prof. Hacker
[This is a guest post by Amanda Phillips, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English with an emphasis in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests are in queer, feminist, and race-conscious discourses in and around technoculture, popular media, video games and the digital humanities. She is a founding member of the #transformDH Collective, "a fluid and decentralized network of people and ideas that are invested in the representation and scholarship of marginalized communities in the digital humanities." Follow her on Twitter (@NazcaTheMad), or her blog, Gamer Trouble: The Dynamics of Difference in Video Games]
ProfHacker asked if I’d be willing to write a #transformDH perspective on the 2012 Meeting of the American Studies Assocation, which I had the good fortune to attend last month as an advocate for the hash tag. This is my story….
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November 5, 2012, 11:00 am
By Prof. Hacker
[This is a guest post by Adrianne Wadewitz, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Digital Learning + Research at Occidental College. You can find her online here and follow her on Twitter at @wadewitz.--@jbj]
Here are some representative highlights from a recent Monday’s schedule:
Monday, October 1
- Plan and teach class on Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
- Work on article about teaching with Wikipedia
- Present an hour-long demonstration of Eighteenth-Century Collections Online to an upper-division English class based on their course materials
- Train undergraduates to use Omeka so they can support faculty and students using it in a variety of courses
This is a typical day for me and illustrates why I relish my job as a digital humanities postdoc at Occidental College. It offers everything I want in a digital humanities…
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October 12, 2012, 11:00 am
By George Williams
Launched in September of 2010, Digital Humanities Questions & Answers is a joint venture of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and ProfHacker. (See Julie Meloni’s launch announcement.)
Digital Humanities Questions and Answers (@DHAnswers on Twitter) is designed to be a free resource where anyone with an interest in the digital humanities can pose a question to the community of folks working in the field.
Since we last checked in with the site, many interesting threads have been launched and several “best answers” have been provided. Below, I’ve provided links to a few of the threads with best answers:
- Founding staff for a new DH Center? “If you were charged with such a task–as perhaps you have been–what would be your priorities–especially in terms of staffing the center–in the first year? Would you most want a project manager? Designer? Programmer?”
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September 20, 2012, 3:00 pm
By Prof. Hacker
[This is a joint post by Jen Guiliano, who is the assistant director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, and ProfHacker's own George H. Williams.]
Consider this a call to digital humanists generally and more specifically to the project directors (from 34 different projects) who attended today’s Project Directors meeting at the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Office of Digital Humanities:
What is your project doing to address accessibility for people with disabilities?
Today’s meeting is a gathering of project directors from the Digital Humanities Start-up Grants, Digital Humanities Implementation Grants, and the Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities competitions. Each project gets just three minutes and three powerpoint slides to introduce their project and their concerns, so we’re taking the liberty of publishing a blog…
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September 7, 2012, 8:00 am
By Brian Croxall
[This is a collaborative post written by Brian Croxall, Ryan Cordell, and Adeline Koh.–@bc]
As of this week, registration for the 2013 MLA Convention has begun. While there is always lots to do at the convention, we want to draw your attention to three associated events that you may want to sign up for as well.
1. A Digital Pedagogy Unconference
If you would like to talk with other people working in the modern languages about different methods, philosophies, or assignments for integrating digital technology into the classroom, you might be interested in the Digital Pedagogy Unconference. This three-hour preconvention workshop on 3 January 2013 will use the unconference format that has been popularized in academia by THATCamp.
The unconference will provide an opportunity for participants to come together, share ideas and experiences with one another—including things that…
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September 6, 2012, 8:00 am
By Amy Cavender
Last fall, Nels started off the academic year with a post that became the first in a series titled “Sabbatical Diary.”
This year, I’d like to continue that tradition.
Back in January, I got into a brief Twitter conversation (as seen in the lead image) with Jeff McClurken and Alex Gil. At the time, I wasn’t thinking too seriously yet about sabbatical, as I’d just submitted my tenure packet in early October and hadn’t heard back yet.
What I was serious about was further delving into the field of Digital Humanities in some way, and using sabbatical time to do that. I’ve developed an interest in that cross-disciplinary field as a result of both my passion for integrating appropriate technologies into my Political Science classroom and my involvement with ProfHacker (and yes, those two things are closely connected with each other), yet I haven’t had the opportunity to develop that…
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May 17, 2012, 8:00 am
By Brian Croxall
Earlier this week, the fine folks at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH)–friends of ProfHacker, all–announced a new initiative, the Digital Humanities Winter Institute (DHWI). DHWI will run from Monday, 7 January through Friday, 11 January 2013. The event will be a companion to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), which takes place at the University of Victoria annually. Julie provided a great report from this “Academic Summer Camp” in 2010.
Like its cousin, DHWI is a week-long, training opportunity on different topics in the digital humanities. Each participant will take a week-long course on a single topic, getting intensive training from experts in the field. The courses are broken up into differing skill levels: Core Courses, Intermediate Courses, and Advanced Courses.
If you’re new to the field of the digital humanities, you…
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