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Stories, perspectives, interviews, and investigations in digital humanities.
Job Announcement: Digital Humanities Center Associate Director
14 January 2014
Princeton University and the Digital Humanities Initiative are looking for a Digital Humanities Center Associate Director to help build a nationally significant faculty research center to support collaborative technology-based projects and develop inter- and trans-disciplinary partnerships. This individual will support the infrastructure and intellectual community of the Digital Humanities, someone who will both inform its vision as well as ensure its effective operation. More information can be found on the Princeton University Human Resources job listing.Close vs. Distant Reading
6 January 2014
Alan Liu has posted the syllabus for a new undergraduate course entitled, close vs. distant reading: http://english197w2014.pbworks.com/w/page/71971433/ScheduleSpeaker Series Announcement: Adeline Koh
15 November 2013
The Digital Humanities Initiative Presents: Adeline KohNever Neutral: Critical Approaches to Digital Tools & Culture in the Humanities -
21 October 2013
To look critically at digital technology is necessarily to look critically at culture. Following Alan Liu’s call for cultural criticism in the digital humanities, this paper explores how the critical curation of digital tools can lead to a cultural critique of a hegemonic Silicon Valley ideology, and a productive self-criticism within the digital humanities. Never Neutral: Critical Approaches to Digital Tools & Culture in the HumanitiesFall Break Digital Media Boot Camp
8 October 2013
The Digital Media Boot Camp is an intensive five-day training session designed to provide a practical grounding in some of the key digital technologies that are transforming journalism today. The Digital Media Boot Camp is led by Dr. Janet Temos ‘82, *01, Director of Educational Technologies Center (ETC), and her team from the New Media Center who have expertise in video and audio production, Final Cut Pro, the Adobe Suite, and other media software. They will be joined at lunchtime by award-winning/internationally recognized journalists discussing the future of news. The boot camp is co- sponsored by the Council of the Humanities and the McGraw Center of Teaching and Learning. There is no cost for the workshop, but space is limited to 16 participants, by application. Applications available on the Council of the Humanities website.