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Global Outlook::Digital Humanities: Global Digital Humanities Essay Prize

May 6, 2013 - 10:33am

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 5!!!

 

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Review of Black Arts Live!

May 1, 2013 - 9:06am

When I first came across the twitter link for Tammy Brown's open access e-book Black Arts Live!  I was extremely excited by both the form and content.  As the recent review of the fabulous show Now Dig This!

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Roundup of HASTAC 2013 posts

April 30, 2013 - 12:04pm

What an amazing conference filled with inventive, kind, humorous and wickedly smart people. About 350 of you showed up and it was so much fun. 

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Peer Learning, Online Learning, MOOCs, and Me: Response to the Chronicle of Higher Education

April 29, 2013 - 11:47pm

I was very surprised this morning to find my photo placed right at the summit of a Chronicle of Higher Education infographic on "Major Players in the MOOC Movement": http://chronicle.com/article/The-Major-Players-in-the-MOOC/138817/.  I'm right there at the top,  holding down the fort for the nonprofits, in a sequence that includes Phillipe Laffont (described as one of the world's forty largest hedgefund managers) and Jonathan Grayer (former CEO of the Kaplan empire).   That's

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"How about a nice game of chess?" An Interview with Stephanie Ricker Schulte, author of "Cached"

April 19, 2013 - 6:40pm

Sarah T. Roberts: Stephanie, thanks so much for taking time to talk with the HASTAC community about your excellent new book, Cached: Decoding the Internet in Popular Culture. I think this book will speak to many different kinds of people involved with HASTAC, given its interdisciplinary nature and its locus at the intersection of policy, history, technology and culture studies.

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Visualization Across Disciplines

April 15, 2013 - 1:10pm

In recent years, visualization has become an all-purpose technique for communicating and exploring data within the humanities.  There are a wide availability of tools offering different points of entry from IBM’s Many Eyes to Gephi to Tapor 2.0.

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HASTAC to present Wednesdays at the Center: What can we learn about ourselves from data?

April 10, 2013 - 10:07am

On Wednesday, April 17, at 12 p.m., two HASTAC staff will speak about their NSF-funded projects that illustrate how big data can teach us about ourselves.

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Wikipedia is pushing the boundaries of scholarly practice but the gender gap must be addressed

April 9, 2013 - 1:33pm

[Cross-posted from Impact of Social Sciences]

Wikipedia is the largest reference work the world has ever created. It is the sixth-largest website in the world. It is the most visited reference work on the internet. It is available in over 285 languages. If you want to affect how the world understands a particular topic, you must edit Wikipedia.

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