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Lecture – Digital, Archival, Literary: Evolving Models for Digital Scholarship (Julia Flanders, Prof. of Practice in English and Director of the Digital Scholarship Group at Northeastern University Library), Co-Sponsored with BYU Office of Digital Humanities

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

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...

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.  

New Media Studies Reading Group

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

Digital 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, UT

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...

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, UT

This 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, UT

John 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...

Digital Literacy Workshops for Teachers (Day 1)

Online

The 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)

Online

The 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, UT

Visualizing 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...

Digging Through History’s Dumpster: The Woman’s Exponent Advertising Database (Dr. Jeremy Browne, Prof. of Digital Humanities at Brigham Young University)

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

In 2019 the Marriott Library worked with BYU's Lee Library to re-digitize a complete archive of Woman's Exponent, a newspaper published in Salt Lake City from 1872-1914. While the work to transcribe the complete text is ongoing, every advertisement from the paper was transcribed, cataloged,...