Lecture – Modeling Narrative Intelligence to Support Adaptive Virtual Environments (Rogelio Cardona-Rivera, Asst. Prof., School of Computing & the Entertainment Arts & Engineering Program)

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

Interactive narratives are used for an ever-expanding array of purposes: educational lessons, training simulations, and even organizational behaviors have had narratives woven around them because these are made more compelling in a dramatic framing. Despite their ubiquity, they remain time-consuming, expensive, and technically challenging to...

Workshop – Finding the Art in Grant Writing and Becoming a Grant-Funded Scholar (Prof. Jared R. Rawlings, Associate Professor, Music Education Area Head)

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

Increasingly, early career arts researchers and practitioners are expected to secure grant funding for their scholarship. The funding landscape is quite competitive and can be challenging to navigate. Without specific training from a mentor, it can be difficult to understand the numerous funding agencies and...

Gale Digital Scholar Lab

Digital Matters is hosting a Gale Digital Scholar Lab training on Thursday, November 7 from 10 am -12 pm in Protospace. Digital Scholar Lab allows users to create content sets using Gale database content and then analyze those content sets with various out-of-the-box DH tools for text...

Workshop – Twitter Scraping with Doc Now (TJ Ferrill, Asst. Head of Creative Spaces)

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

“Documenting the Now responds to the public's use of social media for chronicling historically significant events as well as demand from scholars, students, and archivists, among others, seeking a user-friendly means of collecting and preserving this type of digital content. Documenting the Now has a...

Research Talks – Fall 2019 Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees Projects

Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT

Please join us on December 9th in Digital Matters to hear our Fall 2019 Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees share about their DM projects. Maria Alberto, DM Graduate Fellow, PhD student in the Dept. of English, "Bots: Authorial Implications in Digital Narratives" Bots have social...