On the season premier of its third season, Mark Anthony Neal's Left of Black tackled the uncertain relationship between Black Studies and digital humanities – a relationship that is at once precarious and filled with potential.
Since its founding in 2001, the non-profit organization Creative Commons has been developing a new model of copyright that fosters more sharing and cooperation among writers, authors, and others.
From predicting election results to offering insight into sensitive topics that might not be revealed with traditional research methods, Google search data offers exciting research capabilities. Still, it's important to recognize that the results are more suggestive than predictive.
What economic, political, and historical forces shape the development of digital infrastructure in different areas of the world? And what impact do these divergent trajectories have on access—not only access to the internet, but access to information, speech, social participation and economic mobility?
You can’t spell “digital humanities” without letters, and you can’t make letters appear on a computer screen without character encodings.
The Wire, Gossip Girl, and The Good Wife: why these shows and other examples of a “realistic” portrayal of technology (as opposed to science fiction) should be included in the corpus of social-technological commentary.
In spite of apocalyptic predictions, 2013 is upon us. In honor of the new year, I present the (second annual) Year in Digital Humanities: the most notable stories in technology from 2012 and what it means for scholars in the Humanities.
By developing and maintaining an encoding standard for the digitization of text, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is helping to deliver on the the internet's promise to democratize access to the world’s cultural heritage.
As the term "big data" gains more currency in the humanities, we explore the issues that come up when we treat literature as a set of data to be analyzed.
During his time on campus as Avenali Resident Fellow, Dan Cohen participated in discussions and seminars on the topics of scholarly research and the digital humanities.
