• Why Learn Text Analysis? Text and Data Mining with Constellate (Dr. Nathan Kelber, Community Engagement Lead, JSTOR Labs; Director, Tap Institute)

    In this workshop, Dr. Kelber, an international expert in text analysis education, will give a high-level overview of how text analysis helps researchers discover new insights in the digital humanities and data science. Participants will discover text analysis learning resources including: Constellate, a new teaching...

  • Research Talks – Fall 2021 Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees Projects

    Join in person in Digital Matters, Rm 2751 Marriott Library, or through Zoom: Join Zoom Meeting https://utah.zoom.us/j/96055650906 Meeting ID: 960 5565 0906 Passcode: 294094 David Onwukeme, Digital Matters Undergraduate Intern Undergraduate in Multi-Disciplinary Design, “Possibilities of An Autonomous Sanctuary” This project investigates the Land Bridge...

  • Coded Bias Film Screening

    Marriot Library, Room 1170 295 S 1500 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

    When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, she embarks on a journey to push for the first-ever U.S. legislation against bias in algorithms that impact us all. Digital Matters will be hosting a screening of...

  • Facture of the Archive

    Marriot Library, Room 2751 & Zoom 295 S 1500 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

    In popular usage, “Luddite” denotes a curmudgeonly hater of technology – someone backward-looking, ignorant, and ultimately ineffectual. The eponymous nineteenth-century saboteurs, however, were not opposed to technology tout court, but rather to mechanization in the service of capitalism, and instead of looking backward they were...

  • Artificial Intelligence and Experimental Writing

    Marriot Library, Room 2751 295 S 1500 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

    Please join us for Artificial Intelligence and Experimental Writing where we will hear from two experts on the intersections of avant-garde literature and artificial intelligence. Featuring: Daniel Snelson is an Assistant Professor at UCLA and co-curator of Eclipse Archive. His current book project is about...