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Digital Humanities Now

Digital Humanities Now
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eResearch and Digital Humanities: a broader vision? Digital Heat: Vast underground machines run by downtrodden humanists power 'Metropolis. I have been having many conversations with people of late around the boundaries of ‘eResearch’ and ‘Digital Humanities’. And I have received lots of divergent and interesting responses from both researchers and professionals working in various ways with computing in the humanities. And there does tend to be little agreement about certain aspects of the landscape; many researchers have ‘discovered’ computing in the humanities from their own particular perspective and this perspective is often lacking generosity towards the richer and deeper veins of thought and helmsmanship provided by the long history of computing in humanities research and teaching (ie. the digital humanities). The eResearch community in Australia has done some fantastic work in terms of building and maintaining repositories and addressing related issues around data management and data re-use.

Datafication: How the Lens of Data Changes How We See Ourselves Digital media allow us to produce, collect, organise and interpret more data about our lives than ever before. Our every digital interaction contributes to vast databases of information that index our behaviour from online movie choices to mapping networks of connections across Twitter. In an age of uncertainty, big data sets promise to provide an objective lens through which to understand the world, and both individuals and institutions like schools are turning to data to drive analysis and action. But what does this increasing datafication mean for how we understand the world, and how we understand learning? Learning to Read Digital Data Data can be reassuring. But our interpretation of data is also skewed by how that data is represented. Data Reflects the Past and Drives Future Behaviour As we engage in online activity, we leave trails of data in our wake that are added to the huge databases held by Facebook, Google and marketing companies. Remixing Data

Keeping Up With...Digital Humanities | Association of College & Research Libraries This edition of Keeping Up With... was written by Jennifer L. Adams and Kevin B. Gunn. Jennifer L. Introduction At its core, Digital Humanities (or DH) is an emerging, interdisciplinary movement which looks to enhance and to redefine traditional humanities scholarship through digital means. DH encompasses a wide range of definitions, activities -- and controversies Some see Digital Humanities as a discipline unto itself; others define it as a movement within existing disciplines; still others argue that DH represents the future norm of humanities research and should simply be called “humanities.” DH invites—and demands—collaboration with parties outside of the library Supporting long-term digital research usually requires working with third parties. Librarians need additional training and education in order to contribute effectively Before making a contribution, librarians must ascertain the expertise required for a particular project. DH research relies heavily on data. Conclusion DevDH.

where material book culture meets digital humanities » Wynken de Worde Below is the text from a talk I gave at the Geographies of Desire conference, held at the University of Maryland on April 27-28. Almost everything that I said there is something that I’ve said here before, so faithful readers won’t find much that’s new. But I promised I’d stick it up here, so here it is! “Where material book culture meets digital humanities” Discussions about early modern books and digital tools have tended to focus on one of two responses. There are limitations, of course. You can see one column of text on each page, along with a whole bunch of other junk. There’s still ink bleeding through from the other sides of these leaves, but it’s a bit easier to sort out what’s what. Then there’s this, another image of not-quite visible ink mixed in on the page: But this is an instance of red ink not reproducing clearly. My favorite EEBO moment, however, is this one: the title page of a 1612 elegy mourning the death of Prince Henry. Do you see what happened? Like this:

Graphic Sociology » Seeing Social Data Cairo, Alberto. (2013) The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization. Berkeley: New Riders, a division of Pearson. Overview A functional art is a book in divided into four parts, but really it is easier to understand as only two parts. The second part of the book is a series of interviews with journalists, designers, and artists about graphics and the work required to make good ones. The second is a set of photographs taken of a clay model by Juan Velasco and Fernando Baptista of National Geographic that was used to recreate an ancient dwelling place call Gobekli Tepe that was in what is now Turkey. As a sociologist I am accustomed to reading interviews and am fascinated by the convergence and divergence in the opinions represented. There is a fifth part to the book, too, a DVD of Cairo presenting the material covered in the first three chapters of the book. What does this book do well? Diversity What doesn’t this book do well? Summary References

The Association for Computers and the Humanities | About ACH The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is a major professional society for the digital humanities. We support and disseminate research and cultivate a vibrant professional community through conferences, publications, and outreach activities. ACH is based in the US, but boasts an international membership (as of November 2015, representing 21 countries worldwide). What is DH? Digital humanities is a broad term encompassing a wide range of subject domains and communities of practice, including computer-assisted research, pedagogy, and software and content development in humanistic disciplines like literature and language studies, history, or philosophy. The question “What is digital humanities?” Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations The ACH is the US-based member of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) consortium. How Do I Join?

Towards Marxian Internet Studies | Fuchs | tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-operation Towards Marxian Internet Studies Christian Fuchs Abstract This article gives an overview of example approaches of Critical Internet Studies and points out key concepts of this field. Keywords Critical Internet Studies, Critical Cyberculture Studies, Critical Theory of the Internet, Critical Political Economy of the Internet, Karl Marx, Marx is Back Full Text: PDF tripleC is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal (ISSN: 1726-670X). MIT Technology Review dh+lib ← where the digital humanities and librarianship meet Culture Culture Tweeting the A-League: The Success Story So Far Snurb, 10 October 2013 Now that the AFL and NRL Grand Finals are over, Australia turns its attention again towards real football: the A-League season 2013/14 starts this Friday. That’s a good enough reason to review how the game has [...] Australian Reality TV on Twitter: A Two Horse Race Darryl Woodford, 13 August 2013 Last weekend provided an opportunity to compare the three currently running Australian reality television series, and their social media presence, with Big Brother Showdown on Saturday night, and both X-Factor and Masterchef airing on Sunday. A Month of Vines: An early look at Vine through Twitter Darryl Woodford, 12 April 2013 With my CCI colleague Jean Burgess, we have recently been tracking the development and use of Vine through our existing Twitter tools. An honest mistake: how to recover from a mistweet HABEMUS PAPAM FRANCISCUM: Pope Francis’s first @pontifex tweet and public reactions « Previous Snurb, 1 April 2012

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