Category: digital humanities
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Not elite enough?
Trying to change the world through DH is like trying to change the world through architecture. Or worse still, trying to change the world through accounting. I like the DH because of its scholarly politics and not because of general in-the-wild politics, which, of course, has its essential place but has swamped parts of the…
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Book Review of Matthew K. Golds (2012) Debates in the digital humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Matthew K. Gold (ed.). (2012). Debates in the digital humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816677955.516 pages. USD 34.95. Matthew K. Gold has brought together several leading figures in Debates in the Digital Humanities in a broad-ranging collection of articles that outline the contested, eclectic, and progressing landscape of computing in the humanities. At…
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Gov Hack: What party am I?
This is a project in which I was involved over the weekend at GovHack (in Melbourne). It was a really good event. The two guys in the video did all the hard work; I was the story teller (and was at a wedding most of the weekend whilst they did all the coding). Also, check…
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Review: Seminar, Training, and Large Collaborative Projects, Lynne and Ray Siemens
I recently attended a seminar at UWS on Friday, 26 April 2013, led by Lynne and Ray Siemens of the University of Victoria in Canada. The event’s theme was collaboration in the humanities and, in particular, how digital humanities projects exemplify practical cooperation in broader societies. This is because digital humanities projects often cross disciplines,…
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Manifesto of the Digital Humanities
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The Digital Humanities is not the humanities nor anti-humanities >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Examples of Digital Humanities Can look like the humanities but are not the humanities. We believe that the context of the works of digital humanities is already the humanities The context for the Digital Humanities is nothing but the humanities Pieces of Digital Humanities…
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Announcing DH Awards 2012 open for voting!
It our pleasure to announce that the DH Awards 2012 is open for voting! Digital Humanities Awards are a new set of annual awards given in recognition of talent and expertise in the digital humanities community and are nominated and voted for entirely by the public. These awards are intended to help put interesting DH…