November 2011

Welcome to HASTAC V – Digital Scholarly Communication

by Meredith Kahn November 30, 2011

Tomorrow we’ll be kicking off HASTAC V, sponsored by the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory. The first event associated with the conference is a public lecture by artist Paul Kaiser, a pioneer in the use of 3D rendering, motion capture, and artificial intelligence in digital art. Friday and Saturday are packed with engaging speakers, ...

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Report from the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science

by rebecca November 30, 2011

How does an invisible system shape the experience of an end user? I found myself pondering this question again and again throughout the 2011 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, which took place November 20-21. This event is jointly sponsored each year by Northwestern University, Loyola University, University of Chicago, and the Illinois Institute of ...

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"When Protest Makes Policy" Author Speaks with Time Magazine on Occupy Wall Street

by Shaun Manning November 22, 2011

As Occupy Wall Street nears the end of its second month and the future of encampments across the country becomes an increasingly pressing question, Time magazine spoke with When Protest Makes Policy author S. Laurel Weldon for her perspective on what has become an international movement. In the article, Weldon suggested that the two most ...

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JEP 14.2 Highlights Thinking on Digital Poetry and Poetics

by rebecca November 18, 2011

MPublishing is pleased to announce the publication of a new issue of The Journal of  Electronic Publishing. JEP 14.2 is a special issue that gathers together poets, professors, publishers and programmers to reflect and report on the impact of digital technologies—from Blogger and Twitter to Perl and video games—on writing, publishing, and understanding poetry. The ...

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Thoughts on THATCamp Publishing

by Korey Jackson November 7, 2011

The MPublishing team recently returned from THATCamp Publishing in Baltimore, MD. For the uninitiated, THAT (for “The Humanities and Technology”) Camp is a new breed of “unconference” attempting to move beyond the stand-and-deliver (and sit-and-listen) variety of academic conferences many of us are used to. Instead, the mission is collective discussion and concerted sharing around ...

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Introducing the Digital Humanities

by Korey Jackson November 3, 2011

I wanted to share the Prezi portion of the workshop that Aaron McCollough (Subject Librarian for English and Comparative Literature) and I offered recently at the Teaching and Technology Collaborative. The presentation, “Introducing the Digital Humanities,” was a whirlwind tour of new large-scale databases and tools for conducting and storing research, and a demonstration of ...

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October Serials Round-Up

by kwitchen November 3, 2011

Despite the arrival of menacing Jack O’ Lanterns and ghastly ghouls, three publications fearlessly released new material this month. The Trans Asia Photography Review (TAP) published an expansive new special issue entitled The Elu[va]sive Portrait: In Pursuit of Photographic Portraiture in East Asia and Beyond. Volume 2, Issue 1 features 5 essays and interviews, 3 ...

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