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JOB: Digital Preservation Specialist and Archivist, Bucknell University

Mar

1

2018

From the announcement: Reporting to the Head, Special Collections/University Archives and University Archivist, the responsibilities of the Digital Preservation Specialist and Archivist are two fold: work with the Bucknell University campus to establish an effective and sustainable digital preservation program and actively participate in the processing and description activities taking place in Special Collections/University Archives. ...

JOB: Emerging Technologies and Digital Scholarship Librarian, Queens College

Mar

1

2018

From the announcement: We seek a creative, collaborative librarian who can take the lead in the development of these new initiatives. The ETDS librarian will work collaboratively to support the development of the new initiatives to create high-impact learning spaces within the library that make use of new technology and digital pedagogies. In addition to ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, Central Connecticut State University

Mar

1

2018

From the announcement: Central Connecticut State University’s Elihu Burritt Library seeks a collaborative, creative and enthusiastic Digital Humanities Librarian to join the professional staff. The successful candidate will provide leadership in identifying trends and emerging technologies in digital humanities and building partnerships and cultivating relationships with key university units to develop digital humanities collections and ...

POST: What Can Data Visualization Learn from Feminism?

Feb

22

2018

Paxtyn Merten (Northwestern University) has written an article in Storybench, a publication of the NU School of Journalism, discussing the work of Catherine D’Ignazio (Emerson College) on data literacy and feminism. In “What Can Data Visualization Learn from Feminism?,” Merten summarizes six points given by D’Ignazio to encourage “a feminist perspective on the design of ...

CFP: Slavery in the Machine (sx archipelagos)

Feb

22

2018

sx archipelagos has issued a call for papers for a special section, “Slavery in the Machine,” guest edited by Jessica Marie Johnson: This special section aims to highlight scholarship situated at the intersection of technology and hemispheric American slavery. Topics may include but are not limited to: black code studies through a hemispheric lens plantation ...

CFP: Keystone Digital Humanities Conference

Feb

22

2018

The Keystone Digital Humanities Conference, now in its 4th year at Pennsylvania State University, has issued a call for proposals for the 2018 conference (July 16-18). Recognizing how DH scholarship in practice necessarily bridges conventional academic distinctions, we invite contributions from across the field, including faculty researchers, unaffiliated scholars, librarians, technologists, artists and critical-makers. Whitney ...

EVENT: Digital Humanities Asia 2018 Summit

Feb

22

2018

Stanford University will host the Digital Humanities Asia 2018 Summit on April 27-28, 2018. Organized by Thomas S. Mullaney (Stanford University), author of The Chinese Typewriter: A History, the two-day conference features an international group of speakers on a wide range of topics: [T]he DHAsia 2018 Summit will focus on four (4) areas of research ...

RESOURCE: Digital Cultures, Big Data, and Society

Feb

22

2018

Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta) has shared his conference notes from the Digital Cultures, Big Data, and Society symposium, which took place at the Royal Irish Academy and University College Dublin (February 15-16, 2018). Rockwell gave a keynote, “Thinking-Through Big Data in the Humanities,” which he summarized in the notes: First, I outlined how the ...

JOB: Digital Collections Librarian, Swarthmore College

Feb

22

2018

From the announcement: As a member of the Digital Initiatives + Strategies Department, the Digital Collections Librarian provides strategic and innovative leadership, operational planning, and management for the digital asset management and preservation program for the Swarthmore College Libraries. The incumbent will help shape future directions for digital asset management and preservation systems, and will ...

RECOMMENDED: Ideologies of Boring Things: The Internet and Infrastructures of Race

Feb

15

2018

Emily Drabinski (Long Island University) has published “Ideologies of Boring Things: The Internet and Infrastructures of Race,” a review of Safiya Umoja Noble’s (University of Southern California) forthcoming Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Drabinski’s review draws attention to the ways infrastructures can be visible or invisible ...

POST: What Next-Gen Digital Humanities Looks Like

Feb

15

2018

Jennifer Howard (EdSurge) has written an article entitled “What Next-Gen Digital Humanities Looks Like,” detailing the recent NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors’ Meeting in celebration of its ten years in existence. The program featured talks by ODH grant recipients, discussion of the broader history of humanities computing and contemporary DH, and a keynote ...