• 10 favourite Digital Humanities projects about ‘class, gender, and race’

    10 favourite Digital Humanities projects about ‘class, gender, and race’

    I am not sure that these particular projects had the explicit intent to expound ‘class, gender, race’, at least not seen through a blustery politics-in-the-wild lens. But still, apart from their significant scholarly contributions, they do put to rest the accusation that computing in the humanities is at odds with those scholars who can only…

  • Not elite enough?

    Not elite enough?

    Trying to change the world through DH is like trying to change the world through architecture. Or worse still, trying to change the world through accounting. I like the DH because of its scholarly politics and not because of general in-the-wild politics, which, of course, has its essential place but has swamped parts of the…

  • Book Review of Matthew K. Golds (2012) Debates in the digital humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

    Book Review of Matthew K. Golds (2012) Debates in the digital humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

    Matthew K. Gold (ed.). (2012). Debates in the digital humanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816677955.516 pages. USD 34.95. Matthew K. Gold has brought together several leading figures in Debates in the Digital Humanities in a broad-ranging collection of articles that outline the contested, eclectic, and progressing landscape of computing in the humanities.   At…

  • Gov Hack: What party am I?

    Gov Hack: What party am I?

    This is a project in which I was involved over the weekend at GovHack (in Melbourne). It was a really good event. The two guys in the video did all the hard work; I was the story teller (and was at a wedding most of the weekend whilst they did all the coding). Also, check…

  • Jed the Humanoid

    Jed the Humanoid

    Last night something pretty bad happened. We lost a friend, All shocked and broken, Shut down, exploded. JED-E3 is what we first called him. Then it was “Jed,” But Jed’s system’s dead. Therefore, so’s Jed. We assembled him in the Kitchen, Made out of this and Made out of that and Whatever was at hand.…

  • Review: Seminar, Training, and Large Collaborative Projects, Lynne and Ray Siemens

    Review: Seminar, Training, and Large Collaborative Projects, Lynne and Ray Siemens

    I recently attended a seminar at UWS on Friday, 26 April 2013, led by Lynne and Ray Siemens of the University of Victoria in Canada. The event’s theme was collaboration in the humanities and, in particular, how digital humanities projects exemplify practical cooperation in broader societies. This is because digital humanities projects often cross disciplines,…