Humanities in a Digital World

Submitted by NancyKimberly on Nov 19, 2009, 01:58 PM

What is HASTAC? 

What is the future of learning?

CALL FOR PAPERS: THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES: BEYOND COMPUTING

    The emerging field of the Digital Humanities can broadly be
     understood as embracing all those scholarly activities in the
     humanities that involve writing about digital media and technology as
     well as being engaged in processes of digital media production and
     practice (e.g. developing new media theory, creating interactive
     electronic literature, building online databases and wikis). Perhaps
     most notably, in what some are describing as a ‘computational turn’,
     it has seen techniques and methodologies drawn from Computer Science
     – image processing, data visualisation, network analysis – being used
     increasingly to produce new ways of understanding and approaching
     humanities texts.

"Shakespeare and New Media": An Experiment in Open Review

Submitted by whitneyt on Mar 16, 2010, 11:12 AM

Cathy recently blogged about Duke's proposed open access policy, which would create a freely accessible digital archive of work by Duke faculty. I'd like to bring another experiment in "open access" to the HASTAC community's attention: the open review process going on right now at Shakespeare Quarterly.

Digital Humanities Meet Digital Arts, Society for the Humanities at Cornell University

Submitted by seth.perlow on Feb 07, 2010, 04:57 PM

Society for the Humanities to host public conversation with Mary Flanagan (Digital Humanities, Dartmouth University) on Monday, February 8th, 4:30 p.m., at the A.D. White House, Cornell University. Public participation encouraged.

What Is Fair Use? Critical Commons Can Tell You

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Jan 21, 2010, 07:49 AM

If you have ever wondered if you can use a certain film clip or still in your teaching or research, and found yourself censoring yourself because you were afraid of copyright violation, check out the resources at Critical Commons, a project dedicated to teaching us about what does and does not constitute fair use for educational and research purposes. Here's the url: http://criticalcommons.org

Class on Social Media

Submitted by Amanda Phillips on Jan 07, 2010, 02:44 AM

This is just a quick note to share with the community that I'm co-teaching a seminar on social media with Prof. Rita Raley this quarter.

The MLA and the Digital Humanities

Submitted by NancyKimberly on Dec 30, 2009, 10:32 AM

One field seems to be alive and well: the digital humanities.

The UM Series in Digital Humanities@digitalculturebooks & the UM/ HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize

The University of Michigan Press and the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) are pleased to announce the launch of The University of Michigan Series in Digital Humanities@digitalculturebooks and the UM/ HASTAC Digital Humanities Publication Prize.

Digital Humanities Sessions at the 2009 MLA

Submitted by NancyKimberly on Dec 17, 2009, 12:50 PM

This blog entry (not a HASTAC blog) is a list of all of the upcoming 2009 MLA sessions related to new media and the digital humanities. You may also be interested in following the Digital Humanities/MLA list on Twitter.

http://www.samplereality.com/2009/11/15/digital-humanities-sessions-at-the-2009-mla/

Day of Digital Humanities

Submitted by kjreed on Dec 16, 2009, 11:38 PM

So I'm finally back in Canada, having returned from the wilds of rural Thailand where I was doing my fieldwork.  From now on, there will be a regular weekly blog so I'm no longer a delinquint