A discussion forum for people interested in digital humanities across the disciplines
Whit Frazier Peterson deposited A Magnificent Blond Beast: Exploring the Implications of Harlem Renaissance Writer Wallace Thurman as Ghostwriter of a Forgotten Celebrity Gossip Memoir in the group
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In an early version of his article “Harlem Literati in the Twenties,” first published in the Saturday Evening Review in 1940, Langston Hughes offers the curious suggestion that Wallace Thurman was the ghostwriter of Men, Marriage and Me (erroneously written as Men, Women and Checks in Hughes’ article), the tell-all memoir ostensibly by the origi…[Read more]
Ted Underwood deposited Reclaiming Ground for the Humanities in the group
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Projects that bridge the humanities and sciences often attract attention from journalists, but evoke dismay from humanists who feel that their subjects of expertise have been misinterpreted. For the humanities to reclaim a place of pride in public conversation, humanists themselves need to embrace interdisciplinarity and take the lead in this…[Read more]
Hélène Huet started the topic FLDH SPRING 2021 WEBINAR SERIES in the discussion
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Join us for our Digital Humanities in the Sunshine State (and beyond!) 2020-2021 Webinar Series. Registration for the Spring webinars is now open on the FLDH website. Can’t attend? The webinars will be recorded and available on the FLDH YouTube channel.
Waliya, Yohanna Joseph posted an update in the group
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ICDHAN-2021 CONFERENCE
Abstract SubmissionICDHAN2021 is a hybrid of ‘virtual’ online and in-person participation, thus we encourage individual submission of full or short papers as well as group paper proposals. Your submission could either be in English or French. Here is the procedure to submit your abstracts/proposals:
. Complete the Eas…[Read more]Steve McCarty deposited Global Faculty Development in Practice in the group
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Highlights and insights from the author’s unique Global Faculty Development position at Kansai University in Osaka from 2016-2020. The article, published in Australia, summarizes data on the expressed needs of faculty clients, cites international research on English-Medium Instruction programs, and shows how globalization pressures reach the level…[Read more]
Augustine Farinola posted an update in the group
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Website: https://dhnigeria.org/conferences/
Abstract SubmissionICDHAN2021 is a hybrid of ‘virtual’ online and in-person participation, thus we encourage individual submission of full or short papers as well as group paper proposals. Your submission could either be in English or French. Here is the procedure to submit your abs…[Read more]
Joey McCollum deposited The open-cbgm Library: Design and Demonstration in the group
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The open-cbgm library is an open-source software implementation of the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method (CBGM) designed with customizability and performance on large-scale collations in mind. The library is free to use or modify and has been tested on real data from the Editio Critica Maior (ECM) of the New Testament. This presentation first…[Read more]
Nicky Agate deposited The transformative power of values-enacted scholarship in the group
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The current mechanisms by which scholars and their work are evaluated across higher education are unsustainable and, we argue, increasingly corrosive. Relying on a limited set of proxy measures, current systems of evaluation fail to recognize and reward the many dependencies upon which a healthy scholarly ecosystem relies. Drawing on the work of…[Read more]
Hannah Jacobs started the topic CFP: Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
What does it take to create a digital research project or assignment? The editors of Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook seek case study & assignment submissions to help answer this question. Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook (https://handbook.pubpub.org/) is an open online…[Read more]
Katherine D. Harris deposited Curating Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities in the group
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This is the published introduction to the born-digital, open-access, peer-reviewed *Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities*. More a rationale and scholarly study of both Digital Pedagogy and DPiH in general, this introduces articulates the uses, theory, rationale about digital pedagogy as it has been shaped in U.S. institutions since the explosion of…[Read more]
José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La Red Social (Una red para atraparlos a todos) in the group
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English abstract: A paper on Facebook and ubicuous online social networking as a radical intervention on the elitist social networks which were at the origin of Zuckerberg’s stroke of genius in computer-mediated communication and in social self-presentation. This is done by way of a critique of David Fincher’s film ‘The Social Network’ based on…[Read more]
Augustine Farinola deposited HUMAN AND VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY RELATION: A POSTPHENOMELOGICAL ANALYSIS in the group
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In this essay, I shall examine VR technology so as to ascertain the kind of human-technology relations therein. This will be done using the framework provided by Don Ihde and Peter-Paul Verbeek (who are currently seen as postphenomenologists). My choice of VR technology, as an instantiation of technological advancement, is due to its impact on…[Read more]
Augustine Farinola deposited TOWARDS SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: A PANASEA FOR AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT in the group
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In this essay, I examined the idea of ‘technological revolution’ to confirm whether it connotes a sort of incorporation of existing technologies as new ones emerges or whether it portrays a ‘sharp discontinuity’ from the prior technologies. I began by exploring the dictionary definitions of ‘revolution’ in order to appropriate its usage in re…[Read more]
John J. Taormina deposited A Digital Humanities Bibliography in the group
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An extensive Digital Humanities bibliography with over 1,500 citations covering a variety of disciplines and topics.
Eileen Joy deposited Not Self-Indulgence, but Self-Preservation: Open Access and the Ethics of Care in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 1 month, 3 weeks ago
This chapter explores how certain forms of academic publishing—especially scholar-led, community-owned, open-access platforms and presses—might enable better forms of institutional life conducive to personal flourishing and the increase of public knowledge (and to lubricating the important connection between the two), especially at a time when the…[Read more]
James O'Sullivan deposited Text Is Dead, Long Live Text! in the group
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A short critical reflection on the future of text in the digital age.
Froilán Ramos R. deposited Sobre transiciones pasadas. La experiencia chilena hacia la Democracia (1983-1990) in the group
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This is a chapter about the Chilean experience toward Democracy (1983-1990).
David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, “Playing Gender: Toward a Quantitative Comparison of Female Roles in Lope de Vega and Shakespeare” (Bulletin of the Comediantes 71.1-2, 2019), pp. 119-134 in the group
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One of the major differences between the otherwise very similar commercial theatrical cultures of early modern Spain and England was that, whereas in England female roles were performed by young, cross-dressed boys, in Spain female performers were prominent in their industry. indeed, actresses in Spain played an active role in the creative process…[Read more]
James O'Sullivan deposited The Digital Humanities in Ireland in the group
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If the digital humanities are to thrive they must be allowed to remain culturally dissonant. The ways in which DH is practiced will differ across national contexts, with each region having peculiarities representative of the culture-specific conditions which shaped the field as it first emerged and later developed. While scholars tend to belong…[Read more]
Tiago Tresoldi deposited Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice. Tutorials on Computational Approaches to the History and Diversity of Languages. Volume II in the group
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This document summarizes all contributions to the blog “Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice” from 2019, online also available under https://calc.hypotheses.org.
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