New Media Studies Reading Group
Digital Matters is meeting to discuss Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks.
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New Media Studies Reading Group
Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UTDigital Matters is meeting to discuss Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks.
Workshop – StoryMapping Ourselves: Peopling Place and Poetry Using ArcGIS (Daniel Uncapher, DM Spring 2021 Graduate Fellow, PhD student in Creative Writing)
Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UTMapping 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...
Lecture – Machine Learning in Humanities and Social Science Research: A Case Study of Content Coding Toxicity in Online Comments (Yomna Elsayed, ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities & Communication)
Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UTThis presentation will present a case study on the use of machine learning to code humanities and social science data. It will discuss the opportunities as well the drawbacks and constraints that come with the use of AI and other computational methods in social science and humanities...
Research Talks – Spring 2021 Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees Projects
Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UTJohn Flynn, DM / American West Center Graduate Fellow, PhD Candidate in Dept. of History, "Native Places: An Indigenous Atlas of Utah and the Intermountain West" Native Places is a spatial humanities project from the American West Center. It consists of an interactive, layered map...
“Author Meets Readers” with Heather Houser | Digital Matters & Environmental Humanities Reading Interest Group
Author Meets Readers with Heather Houser April 13 @ 12-12:45pm Virtual Event l Free & Open to the Public The Tanner Humanities Center is proud to host Heather Houser, former Center Visiting Research Fellow and author of, "Infowhelm," in a virtual conversation. Houser is an Associate Professor...
Digital Literacy Workshops for Teachers (Day 1)
OnlineThe University of Utah’s Urban Institute for Teacher Education in the College of Education, English Department, and Digital Matters invite you to join us for a two-day series of workshops to introduce 7-12th grade teachers to a mix of practical and theoretical Digital Literacy skills and concepts. Participants will work with University of Utah faculty and staff to learn more about podcast production and multi-modal writing/video essays to help your students move beyond the traditional research paper. As a group, we will gain a framework for thinking about timely topics such as misinformation, news integrity, and digital citizenship. To facilitate 21st century teaching and research, we will delve into effective online teaching and ethical use of digital resources. We also welcome the chance to hear from 7-12 grade teachers about what skills and concepts you would like to learn about to help your students become digitally literate.
Digital Literacy Workshops for Teachers (Day 2)
OnlineThe University of Utah’s Urban Institute for Teacher Education in the College of Education, English Department, and Digital Matters invite you to join us for a two-day series of workshops to introduce 7-12th grade teachers to a mix of practical and theoretical Digital Literacy skills and concepts. Participants will work with University of Utah faculty and staff to learn more about podcast production and multi-modal writing/video essays to help your students move beyond the traditional research paper. As a group, we will gain a framework for thinking about timely topics such as misinformation, news integrity, and digital citizenship. To facilitate 21st century teaching and research, we will delve into effective online teaching and ethical use of digital resources. We also welcome the chance to hear from 7-12 grade teachers about what skills and concepts you would like to learn about to help your students become digitally literate.
Workshop – Network Graphing for Humanists (David Roh, Director, Digital Matters)
Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UTVisualizing relationships can reveal hidden connections, leading to interesting research questions or new lines or inquiry. But how can a non-specialist build those relationships in a quick, efficient, and painless way? In this workshop, we will learn how to use Gephi, a free and open-source software...
Workshop – Using Zotero to Collect, Organize, and Share Citations (Rebekah Cummings, Digital Matters Librarian)
Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UTDo you still copy and paste citations into Word and Google Docs? Are you frequently unable to locate that perfect statistic, quote, or article you read a while back? Would you rather spend your valuable research time reading and writing instead of formatting citations? If...