Category: digital humanities
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Envisioning the Digital Humanities (DHQ Article, Patrik Svensson)
This is the last of a series of articles on DHQ exploring debates within and about the digital humanities Over the last couple of years, it has become increasingly clear that the digital humanities is associated with a visionary and forward-looking sentiment, and that the field has come to constitute a site for far-reaching discussions…
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Teaching Digital Humanties: Digital methods elective: Ph.D. Coursework Subject
I have started teaching a PhD coursework subject at the University of Melbourne, the first year that this type of guided professional development has been offered in PhD research. Our contribution is the first Digital Humanities subject in the faculty; it is a lot of fun to design and teach but somewhat experimental. There are…
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Our Digital Age: implications for learning and its (online) institutions (HASTAC)
Our Digital Age: implications for learning and its (online) institutions CATHY N. DAVIDSON, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, Durham, USA DAVID THEO GOLDBERG, University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine, USA HASTAC co-founders Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg have co-authored an article that was published in the most recent volume of E-Learning and…
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The Open Victoria Project: Open-Government Widgets for Enhanced Citizen-Government Dialogue
This is a project I am trying to develop. It is a proposal for a small prototype project. Any takers? Synopsis The Open Victoria Project will investigate and improve access to online Victorian State Government knowledge bases in a high-capacity broadband era. The project will repurpose and make available a set of portable generic widget…
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Journal of Digital Humanities Volume 1, No. 2
Here is an interesting innovation from the ever prolific Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media in the US. It is built on a platform they developed called PressForward and is an open-access journal “that features the best scholarship, tools, and conversations produced by the DH community in the previous quarter”. The articles are…
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Opportunity and accountability in the eResearch push, Digital Humanities, 2012, Hamburg, Germany
I would like to open with an image; it is an image from Fritz Lang’s famous 1927 German Expressionist Science Fiction movie, Metropolis. Made in Germany during the Weimar period, Metropolis depicts a futuristic dystopian society where wealthy intellectuals rule from the city above ground, oppressing the workers who live in the depths below them.…