Category: digital humanities
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Distant reading the past
This is a really interesting thesis underway at King’s. I suspect he is using the Old Bailey records as some of the findings about the Irish and their likelihood of prison are similar to the Founders and Survivors project about class-background and transportation to Tasmania.
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You wish!
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Discounted members places for DHA2014
ADHO, the Association of Digital Humanities Associations (in which the aaDH is associated) has a new discounted members category, which is a good way to join the aaDH. It costs about $45 to join, but this is without the subscription to LLC. And if you join aaDH, you get a discount of $150 to register…
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5 most important (computing) technologies for the humanities
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Digital humanities and the democracy of old school
This is my last post of the year (and many of you may sigh in relief). I will write about the debates about the DH as a field again and my shifting perspectives. Ideas such as the methodological commons and collaboration as justification for the area are exhausted concepts, and far from unique and special,…
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Is the digital humanities its ‘own thing’?
It wasn’t long ago that I argued (strongly) that the digital humanities is its own thing. There was so much work in ‘the field’ and so many unique and hard-won perspectives that this constitutes a field of practice. But as my views mature, I am much less precious about the DH and its place in…