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Media Studies Reading Group
Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UT
Workshop – Re-Envisioning Digital Scholarship with Scalar (Maria Alberto, DM Graduate Fellow, Dept. of English)
Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UTDigital publishing, e-publishing, open-access publishing. . . If you are a scholar or researcher, then chances are good that you’ve encountered these terms before. Probably in all their crossover and uncertainty, too! It can be challenging to figure out what digital publishing entails, how it...
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, UTIncreasingly, 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...
Lecture – The Hardcore Gamer is Dead: Long Live Gamers (Ryan Moeller, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of English at Utah State University)
Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UTIn this talk, Prof. Moeller argues that the ethos, identity, or the “dwelling places” of the “hardcore gamer” were created and maintained by the computer game industry in order to sell mass quantities of games to a relatively affluent consumer base with leisure time on...
Research Talks – Fall 2019 Graduate Fellows and Faculty Grantees Projects
Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UTPlease 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...
Digital Matters Open Lab
Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UTStarting Fall 2019 semester, Digital Matters has open lab hours on Fridays (9am-6pm). Every Friday this semester, Digital Matters staff will be available for group collaboration and helping with individual projects. DM staff will have no meetings scheduled on Fridays and are looking forward to...
Workshop – Visualizing Maps with Leaflet (Jeff Turner, DM / American West Center Graduate Fellow, PhD student in Dept. of History)
Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UTIn this workshop, we’ll learn to use Leaflet, “the leading open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps,” to visualize basic digital maps. “Leaflet is designed with simplicity, performance, and usability in mind. It works efficiently across all major desktop and mobile platforms, can be extended with lots of plugins,...
Lecture – The Gamification of Public Discourse (C. Thi Nguyen, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy at Utah Valley University)
Digital Matters MLIB 2751, Salt Lake City, UTSocial media makes public discourse more like a game. Is that a good or a bad thing? C. Thi Nguyen argues that games are good precisely because they let us transform our motivations and values for a moment — offering us clear, simple, quantified targets...