Please join Digital Matters on September 1st via Zoom to hear our Spring 2020 Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees share about their DM projects. Jeff Turner, DM / American West Center Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate in Dept. of History, "Native Places Atlas Project: Mapping Native...
Digital Matters is meeting with Environmental Humanities to discuss The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration by Hester Blum.
What do you get when you combine the power of GIS (Geographic Information Systems), 3D modeling, and 3D printing? That’s just what you will discover in this workshop presented through Digital Matters. Justin Sorensen (GIS Specialist at the J. Willard Marriott Library) will demonstrate an...
The New Media Studies Reading Group will meet on Oct. 19th from 1-2 pm to discuss the book, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin. If you are going to participate in the reading group and would like a complimentary copy of...
In this beginners’ workshop, we’ll be applying distant reading techniques to the seven Harry Potter novels. Distant reading allows us to turn the seven texts into data and analyze the words, styles, and other features of the Harry Potter series. Resources from workshop https://youtu.be/ACC3ugPyLoc
Please join Digital Matters on November 30th via Zoom to hear our Fall 2020 Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees share about their DM projects. John Flynn, DM / American West Center Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate in Dept. of History, "Native Scholars Clearinghouse" Native Peoples of...
What stories can a map tell us? When we plug data into a map, we can see information in a whole new way. This workshop will discuss the numerous possibilities to visualize data through GIS. With ArcGIS Online, you can create point maps and heat...
Graduate students, please join Prof. Julia Flanders for an informal discussion about her work as the Northeastern Digital Scholarship Group Director, Director of the Women Writers Project, and editor-in-chief of Digital Humanities Quarterly. Please come prepared with questions about digital scholarship, text and coding, and the Women...
This presentation will consider our evolving conceptions of “digital text”, through the lens of the 30-year history of the Women Writers Project. The shifting tensions between information and artifactuality have produced changes in both theory and practice for editors, readers, and tool designers. We’ll look not only...
Digital Matters is meeting to discuss Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks.
Digital Matters is meeting to discuss Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks.
Mapping Utah is a personal mapping, a map of people. “StoryMapping Ourselves: Peopling Place and Poetry Using ArcGIS” will provide an introductory demonstration of ArcGIS “StoryMaps” technology in the context of mapping observed environmental surface damage in the state of Utah, followed by a short...