Media/digital tools course in AAD this fall!

This fall (2011), the Arts and Administration Program @UO will host a course by independent filmmaker and media arts advocate, Helen DeMichiel. As a Visiting Scholar in AAD, Helen will offer Participatory Media and Social Practice as a hybrid course: largely online delivery augmented by three in-person workshop style meetings on Saturday mornings (first, fifth, [...]

Fieldschool in “cultural heritage infomatics”

Via the Publore listserv, I ran across this announcement today: Cultural Heritage Informatics Fieldschool at Michigan State University ANP491: Methods in Cultural Heritage Informatics http://chi.matrix.msu.edu/fieldschool/ We are extremely happy to officially announce the Cultural Heritage Informatics Fieldschool (ANP491: Methods in Cultural Heritage Informatics). Taking place from May 31st to July 1st (2011) on the campus [...]

A useful screencast from H. Rheingold on ‘tuning’ resources for research

Thanks again, Howard Rheingold! Take advantage of some of the tools that Howard discusses in this short screencast: http://screenr.com/Content/assets/screenr_1116090935.swf

New book on personal communication/connection in digital environs…

Some of you may be following the Media Commons blog/site already, but if not, a new book was announced there today. Here is the post. The book is by Nancy Baym, and here’s a blurb about it: The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of our selves and our [...]

NERCOMP workshop on “digital scholarship”

Encountered this post on the Academic Commons blog today, and thought it might be of interest to some here. The workshop will be held on Feb. 1, and aims to cover the following questions: How do campuses support the production needs for student and faculty whose work draws increasingly on the use of multiple forms [...]

Fun text-imaging tool….

Just ran across this tool called Wordle. It enables you to generate word clouds based on pieces of text that you paste into the online tool. The resulting image is Creative Commons licensed to you, though the program/code it runs on is not under a CC. More info on the page. Here is an example [...]

AAARG.org

Some of you may know about this resource already, and while I’ve been checking in on it for a while, I’ve only just started doing so in any depth as I prepare a course for next term. Here is the ‘about’ information from the AAARG.org site AAAARG is a conversation platform – at different times [...]

UC Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) proposal calls

Snipped from an email I got the other day from the UCHRI The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) invites proposals for various programs. For more information, please go to: Residential Research Fellowships 2010-11 Application Deadline: December 15, 2009 Residential Research Groups: Topic Proposals 2011-12 Application Deadline: December 15, 2009 Awards are contingent upon [...]

Open access/collaborative digital archive

Ran across this on the Academic Commons blog: Parallel Archive It’s in beta testing right now, and is described as follows: Parallel Archive (PA), developed by Open Society Archives (OSA) at Central European University (www.osaarchivum.org), is at once a personal scholarly workspace, a collaborative research environment, and a digital repository. The Academic Commons post gives [...]

Digital Humanities & Design seminar @UCLA

NOWCASTING: Design Theory and the Digital Humanities: A Transdisciplinary Seminar October 16 & 17, 2009  •  UCLA Website : http://dma.ucla.edu/nowcasting/ Watch : http://dma.ucla.edu/nowcasting/watch.html “NOWCASTING is the first conference to apply design theory to emerging issues in the digital humanities. Showcasing digital humanities projects at every level from Google mapping to super computing visualization, the Nowcasting [...]