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How Educators Are Using Pinterest in the Classroom

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:46:30 -0000

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"Aggregating images to share with students is an increasingly common classroom use for the tool", but issues around copyright may be concerning for educators. - Ayse G

Tags: the field, tools

by: Ayse G

E-books Can’t Burn by Tim Parks | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 02:57:23 -0000

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"But I want to go beyond practicality to the reading experience itself, our engagement with the text. What is it that these literary men and women are afraid of losing should the paper novel really go into decline?" - Ayse G

Tags: digital publishing

by: Ayse G

Study twitter-maps new world order

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:07:43 -0000

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A new study of tweets spreading news from The New York Times finds that the Internet, while creating an open line of communication across continents, may at the same time be strengthening walls that separate users into ideological camps, and more. - Ayse G

Tags: visualizations, data

by: Ayse G

Old Wine in New Wineskin: The Collected Works Project in the Digital Age

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:24:04 -0000

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Division: Methods of Literary Research
Session examines current collected works projects—funding, archiving, virtual representation, dissemination—in the digital age. 250 word abstract and 1 page cv by 15 March 2012; Jude V. Nixon (jnixon@salemstate.edu). - Ayse G

Tags: the field, higher education

by: Ayse G

Multimedia and the Teaching of Literature

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:22:44 -0000

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Papers on the use of web-based multimedia applications for the teaching and learning of literature. Up to 250 word abstracts by 15 March 2012 - Ayse G

Tags: the field, higher education

by: Ayse G

Yahoo Visualizes Our News Reading Habits

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:29:51 -0000

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A Yahoo visualization of most viewed stories, with demographic filters. How does this impact other types of online reading behavior? - zhangjia
I saw this too. It's pretty interesting, especially the demographic breakdowns. A friend and I discussed the relationship of these kinds of stats to (reader) stereotypes and targeted content. - Ayse G

Tags: visualizations, data

by: zhangjia

Limitations of the iPad for Student Use

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:46:07 -0000

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An older article that speculates on the limitations of the iPad for student use. A beautiful image of the inside cover of David Foster Wallace's annotated copy of Don Delillo's Players. - zhangjia

Tags: tools, higher education

by: zhangjia

Paper on 3D Interactive Visualizations of Fiction Plot

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:24:09 -0000

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A interesting attempt to provide new visualizations for understanding and teaching plot in fiction. Especially addressing comparisons between non-linear narratives, and including model building as part of pedegogical approach. - zhangjia

Tags: visualizations, tools

by: zhangjia

Job Posting in DH

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:42:38 -0000

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The Humanities Digital Workshop at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications for a three-year early-career fellowship in digital humanities, to begin July 1, 2012. - Ayse G

Tags: career, higher education

by: Ayse G

Infographic: Quantifying Digital Humanities

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:09:24 -0000

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An attempt at trying to pull together available statistics on Digital Humanities. - Kurt Fendt

Tags: the field, visualizations

by: Kurt Fendt

Debates in the Digital Humanities : book launch

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:04:53 -0000

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Debates in the Digital Humanities: book launch with Matthew K. Gold, editor, and Doug Armato, director, University of Minnesota Press Location: 125 Nolte Center for Continuing Education Cost: Free and open to the public Matthew K. - Kurt Fendt

Tags: the field, publication

by: Kurt Fendt

What is big data? An introduction to the big data landscape.

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:14:43 -0000

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Big data is data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems. The data is too big, moves too fast, or doesn't fit the strictures of your database architectures. To gain value from this data, you must choose an alternative way to process it. - Kurt Fendt

Tags: data, tools

by: Kurt Fendt

World Bank and Google join forces to empower mapping communities around the world

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:10:57 -0000

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Today the World Bank and Google announced a collaborative agreement aimed at improving disaster preparedness and development efforts in countries around the world.

Under this agreement, the World Bank will act as a conduit to make Google Map Maker source data more widely and easily available to government organizations in the event of major disasters, and also for improved planning, management, and monitoring of public services provision.

The free, web-based mapping tool called Google Map Maker enables citizens to directly participate in the creation of maps by contributing their local knowledge. Once approved, those additions are then reflected on Google Maps and Google Earth for others around the world to see. - Kurt Fendt

Tags: data, visualizations

by: Kurt Fendt

Academic publishers have become the enemies of science

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:07:35 -0000

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The US Research Works Act would allow publishers to line their pockets by locking publicly funded research behind paywalls - Kurt Fendt

Tags: digital publishing, libraries, open content

by: Kurt Fendt

Pixels and Print: Redefining Academic Publishing & Scholarly Communication

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:06:13 -0000

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The latest issue of MLA's Profession announces that there is "a growing consensus that humanities disciplines must find ways not simply of evaluating but also of valuing digital scholarship as part of hiring, promotion, and tenure decisions." - Kurt Fendt

Tags: the field, digital publishing, career

by: Kurt Fendt

The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:04:22 -0000

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Opinion piece by Stanley Fish in the New York Times - Kurt Fendt

Tags: the field

by: Kurt Fendt

MPub @ MLA

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:01:03 -0000

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At this year's MLA, digital humanities sessions abounded at the conference. With Sample’s help, The University of Minnesota Press put together a pamphlet listing all sessions related to DH (in support of their just-released collection Debates in the Digital Humanities)—the final tally: 58 sessions (up from 44 in 2011 and 28 in 2010). The numbers reveal an interest not only in new forms of digital scholarship (and new ways of publishing it), but also new ways to network thinking and research. - Kurt Fendt

Tags: the field, conference

by: Kurt Fendt

A blog post about the digital humanities

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:57:24 -0000

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A response to Stanley Fish, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, and others - Kurt Fendt

Tags: the field

by: Kurt Fendt

It’s not just about scholarly work: digital infrastructures, transnationalism, and Europe

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:53:51 -0000

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Infrastructures are installations and services that function as “mediating interfaces” or “structures ‘in between’ that allow things, people and signs to travel across space by means of more or less standardized paths and protocols for conversion or translation.”1 A digital research infrastructure is no different: it’s a mediating set of technologies for research and resource discovery, collaboration, sharing and dissemination of scientific output. - Kurt Fendt

Tags: the field, digital infrastructure

by: Kurt Fendt

Collaborative Approaches to the Digital in English Studies - eBook

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:50:30 -0000

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Collaborative Approaches to the Digital in English Studies joins the ongoing conversation about collaborative work in the humanities. Instead of focusing exclusively on the digital humanities or emphasizing only the large-scale computational analysis or archival projects typical of that field of study, the collection focuses on a variety of projects led by or involving English studies professionals in particular. - Kurt Fendt

Tags: the field, publication

by: Kurt Fendt