Category: digital humanities
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Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) wins NEH Grant
(The new Digital Humanities Observatory in Dublin has some innovative projects. This new ‘VRE’ (Virtual Research Environment) collaborative-style of project may be of interest to viewers). A collaborative project between the Digital Humanities Observatory, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and Indiana University Bloomington has been selected to receive a major grant from the…
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New Resource: British Literary Manuscripts Online c.1660-1900
(This new resource from the a private company Gale-Cengage Learning looks promising; at least according to the populist blurb in the Telegraph via the Melbourne Age. Strange how the article fails to mention that it was a homophobic ‘scandal’ and fails to do justice to the true nature of Wild’s and Bosie’s relationship. There is…
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Geo-referencing Digitised Collections
There are a couple of projects underway here at the Centre for eReseach (CeRch) and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) about ‘Geo-referencing’. Geo-referencing is a way of ‘tagging’ digital collections so they can be searched by geographical place names or mapped. Â Dr Claire Grover of the Language Technology Group, School of Informatics,…
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jill/txt writing with a little help from your friends
One of the blogs I try and read regularly is by Jill Walker’s from the University of Bergen in Norway . Jill’s research is within the ‘new media’ field and in large, offers analysis of the use of popular technologies such as blogs, wikis, and other social software applications within the public sphere (a blog…
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What is technological determinism?
Technological determinism is circulated, maintained, and advanced within the pre-existing hierarchies in the world in which we live. Determinism has its own political agendas, its own rules, its own contexts and hierarchies and antagonisms to an imagined ‘other’. Determinism utilises a proprietary language and culture and although it cloaks itself in ideas of inter-disciplinary, deterministic…