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
I’m home for the third snow day in a row, for the second time in as many weeks. The snow is already melting and pretty soon there won’t be anything left of it apart from the trace on our cameras. So it seems appropriate that I take this chance (in between brewing cocoa for the … Continue reading Introduction to Digital Humanities (Again)
cross-posted from ACH.org On Friday, January 10 from 5:15-6:30pm in Sheraton I at the Sheraton Chicago, the ACH will sponsor a session (#402) at the Modern Language Association's Convention. Earlier this year, the ACH put out a call for papers on the subject "Beyond the Digital." In recent years, an increasing number of sessions at the … Continue reading Methods and More for “Beyond the Digital” at MLA 2014
In April I had the pleasure of speaking at Case Western Reserve University. I was invited by Roger Zender at the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship to speak in their 2013 Colloquium, which was devoted to the subject of "Exploring Collaboration in Digital Scholarship." The talk gave me an opportunity to discuss the work we have … Continue reading “What’s in it for Me?”; or, Collaboration is not an End in Itself
Cross-posted from http://www.ach.org/beyond-digital-cfp-mla-2014 Recent MLA Conventions have featured many sessions about the digital humanities, considering their impact on methodology, pedagogy, bibliography, race, and the profession itself. What is sometimes forgotten, however, is that the output of digital analysis is not itself the goal; rather, it is a means to an end, and that end is the … Continue reading Beyond the Digital: Pattern Recognition and Interpretation. A CFP for MLA 2014 from ACH