I just answered an email about digital humanities. I do this on kind of a regular basis, seeing I’m a certified "Digital Humanities Strategist.” This email was a certain type, however, the one that I think of as “Help, I want to do DH!” I get this question—although it’s not a question—pretty regularly from … Continue reading “Help, I want to do DH!”
On 10 July 2014, I had the great chance to present a paper at the Digital Humanities Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, “Play as Process and Product: On Making Serendip-o-matic.” The paper was a collaboration between four of the 12 team members from One Week | One Tool: Amy Papaelias, Mia Ridge, Scott Kleinman, and myself. … Continue reading “If Hippos be the Dude of Love…”: Serendip-o-matic at Digital Humanities 2014
Today is the ever popular and fun Day of DH. I’ve got a blog on the main Day of DH site, but I’m going to cross-post some of the content here. Because findability? -------- As I was explaining to some of my coworkers yesterday, Day of DH started with the goal of trying to make … Continue reading Day of DH Starts Early
At the end of August 2013, I was honored to be invited to speak at Fresno State's Center for Creativity and the Arts as the first visiting intellectual of the academic year. I helped the Center inaugurate its 2013-2014 theme: "Data and Technology" (PDF). I had the chance to lead a workshop on Voyant, meet many … Continue reading The Red Herring of Big Data
Herewith, the second quick update post. A New Cluster at #Alt-Academy A few weeks ago, on 27 January 2014, I was pleased to join Katina Rogers in announcing a new phase of #Alt-Academy. The open-access collection edited by Bethany Nowviskie first went live in the summer of 2011 and included essays that sought to define “alt-ac” … Continue reading Announcing “Looking for Signposts” at #Alt-Academy