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centerNet defines itself as an "International Network of Digital Humanities Centers." It has added over 200 members from about 100 centers in 19 countries since its foundation in 2007. Basically, they're attempting to centralize all of Digital Humanities into a single vast network. They aim to be inclusive and avoid defining digital humanities concretely. Instead, they only suggest that "a "center" should be larger than a single project, and it should have some history or promise of persistence." The projects can be found by a keyword search, by region, or by clicking on an interactive GoogleMap. The network isn't as flooded as you think; only 200 entries exist on the site as of today, but each one is of very high quality.

Todays youth are spending a great deal of time using social ntworks such as Facebook, Myspace, and Bebo. These networks access public life which are things we do on an everyday bases. This article seeks to explore the social dynamics of mediated public life in order to help educators understand their role in socialising in today's youth.

The study examines the relationship between use of facebook, a popular online social network site, and the formation and maintenace of social capital. A dimensipon of socail capitalis explored that accesses one's ability to stay connected with memebers of a previously inhabited community. A survey of undergraduate students suggest a strong association between use of facebook and the three types of social capital, with the strongest being to bridging social capital.

Liberal arts education has a new cutting edge aspect that students from the Tri-College Digital Humanities initiative are exploring. Over a period of about four years they are using technology to adapt liberal arts to a networked world. New media components are being added to classrooms and students are forging ahead onto unchartered territory. Questions and research that has never been done before are being explored by these kids as they use their imaginations and curiosity to aid them in this unique journey.

This brief presentation on the Fifth Annual Graduate Student Conference on World History gives an example of some of the things the field of History is looking to track and how the field is expecting to change. The conference is requesting papers on the topics of cultural mobility, political movements, and networks utilized for the transmission of ideas. More of interest to digital humanists though is the category of Mapping Movements, with an explicit focus on the new technologies and digital humanist methods being developed that can be utilized to assist this process.

This blog is about how to teach digital editions more like a seminar. Digital editions are about pedagody, culture preservation, and interpreting. She uses this term as a broader Digital Humanities method to create a network that uses interpretive knowledge and connected skills to reach a certain audience. By making this teaching more like a graduate seminar students are able to contribute more to the class because they will be more easily self-motivated. Students will understand that there is one instructor and that they contribute to their project while also remembering who the audience is.

metaLAB is a research and teaching unit at Harvard University dedicated to exploring and expanding the frontiers of networked culture in the arts and humanities. They're part of the Graduate School of Design and work in Cambridge. It is defined as "a community of scholars, artists, designers, journalists, technologists, architects, and students engaged in team-based experiments that merge research, teaching, publication, social action, and the use and development of digital tools."

This future course at a University wants to show how the human and the new machine are used for research and teaching. Their online learning method is used to incorporate different learning styles that are used in research with computational tools and networks that are connected throughout the world. This class is designed to prepare students in the humanities and social sciences that use new ways of thinking, teaching and learning. Their hoping with showing how online learning better educates students that it transforms higher education making it more meaningful to the present and future. After students have finished this course they will leave with many e-portfolio projects, public online writing, multimedia and collaborative productions.

This opportunity is offered electronically to gather information on different games that can be used in teaching literature, languages, and writing. Some of the games are not done digitally but others focus around teaching with video games or social networks. Virtual worlds and spatial games (foursquare, geocaching, ect) will also be used as a teaching method. Selection of people who will be asked to present their findings will be based on different styles of classrooms, student experiences, successes, and failures.

Comment Press is an experiment into the organization of digital ext with a desire to promote social interaction within and around it. Comment Press offers us the oppurtunity to resituate the problem of electronic publishing in a potential producttive way.

The Digital Public lIbrary of America (DPLA) is an ambitious project intedned to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available free or charge to all. With the Hubs Pilot, the DPLA will undertake the first efforts to establish a national network out of these and other promising intitives bringing together digitaized content from across the country into a singlr access for end users.

The two annoted biblographies present in this publication document sparks future discussions toward the activity of modeling the social edition. THis annotated biblography first explores reading devices, tools and social media issues and second, social networking tools for professional readers in the Humanities.

This bibliography of Lynn H. Nelson was written by virtual and close friends who felt the need to write about his life and his contributions to the World Wide Web. In 1998, the web was very young and it was still possible to imagine that a history network could have been monitored by a team of volunteers that coordinated. Lynn had also developed and organized hyperlinks structure of Bernies Lee's World Wide Web virtual library built in 1991. Lynn was a mentor in the field of transitional digital history and humanities computing in 1998 he wrote an essay for a mono graphic issue of the Italian contemporary history journal Memorie De Ricerca. Lynn created one of the first open Access Digital Library worldwide in Kansas and elsewhere.

This news article highlights the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington's new initiative for facilitating research and education in the digital humanities. The initiative revolves around The Catapult Center, directed by William R. Newman, Distinguished Professor and Ruth N. Halls Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. This center, according to the article, "will bring together a network of scholars from IU and the outside world in the rapidly expanding fields of digital editing, computational analysis of texts and material analysis of textual collections."

This is a page of information on Claire Warwick, who is a professor of digital humanities and head of the department of information studies at University College London. Warwick's main research interests are the uses of digital resources in humanities and cultural heritage, reading in physical and digital environments, and the use of social networking in research. Warwick opened the event Annual Research Programme, an event free and open to the public.

CNI's focus is to transfer scholarship into the digital age. It states that it is made of 200 institutions from universities, publishing, and libraries that must pay membership dues. CNI is supported soley through the membership dues. IT encourages collaboration throughout its own community as well as outside of it.

I like the definition that Maxwell proposes here. I agree that this is a new "fresh" field and that it is gaining momentum. I think it is fascinating that the field is primarily present in Twitter and think that this social media site is something that can significantly aid digital humanists in their work. Sharing ideas and collaboration is clearly a new way of learning and in my opinion is the most effective way of learning. Creating easy access to information destroys any walls that may keep an individual from pursuing their research of a subject. When any information known is available online, nothing stands in the way of people constantly adding their ideas and input to that data. We all have a different approach to life and different thought processes, and therefore it is very important for us to share information widely and freely and to work in collaboration with one another.

This is an interview with Andrew Stauffer, the director of the Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship at the University of Virginia, which is one of the most important projects in the Digital Humanities field. Through this project, he is exploring how books where written in the past by looking at the human interaction taking place on the pages. That is, he examines messages recorded through annotations by both readers and authors. He is also currently working on examining the effect that Google Books is having on libraries and what information is being lost as we move from analog to digital. Despite the push towards the digital age, Stauffer believes that we will still be reading physical books for many more years.