Join us Monday, October 22nd from 10:00 am – 11:30 am in Digital Matters (2nd floor of the Marriott Library in the Art and Architecture Library) for a workshop “Text Mining Using Voyant” led by Lisa Swanstrom, Associate Professor of English. Questions about the event? Contact...
Digital Matters Faculty Grant Program Fall 2018 PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Digital Matters at the University of Utah is pleased to announce the Fall 2018 Faculty Grant Program. This provides research funding to Tenure-line and Career-line faculty in the Humanities, Fine Arts, Architecture+Planning, and Marriott Library working in Digital Studies, broadly...
Undergraduate Research (UR) opportunities in the Digital Humanities, through the Marriott Library’s Digital Matters and the College of Humanities. Student researchers will report to Dr. Lisa Swanstrom (English) and/or Dr. David Roh, the Director of the Digital Matters. Description The Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary field that...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Design The Multi-disciplinary Design Program within The School of Architecture in combination with Digital Matters in the Marriot Library at the University of Utah are conducting a search for a two year Visiting Assistant Professor with an expected start date of January...
The High Cost of Inexpensive Kindles Eleven years after the Amazon Kindle's debut, we evaluate its impact on the reading public. If there's one thing that the Amazon Kindle should be credited for, it's that it introduced eReaders to a wide swath of consumers. Since its debut...
Graduate Student Residency Fellowship with Digital Matters (PDF) For Spring 2019 Digital Matters at the University of Utah is pleased to announce the 2018-19 Graduate Fellowship at Digital Matters in the Marriott Library. This fellowship provides graduate students in the Humanities, Fine Arts, and Architecture+Planning an opportunity to...
Depending on who you are talking to, libraries are either on the decline or ushering in a new golden age of information. But predictions like these are nothing new. Articles that predict the death or the flourishing future of the library are nearly as old...
[caption id="attachment_618" align="alignleft" width="300"] Thinking like a designer means a lot of sketching.[/caption] I just came back from the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria where I attended the course “Visualizing Information: Where Data Meets Design” taught by Aimée Knight. In this...
Matt McPherson, a Marriott Library student employee in the Media Studio, chose to feature Digital Matters in his final assignment for his Radio Journalism class. As part of his assignment, he interviewed Greg Hatch (head of Creativity and Innovation Services), Robert Nelson (Assistant Head, AV Studios),...
Hello, readers! This is the third and final post to introduce you to our new staff in Digital Matters. Hopefully you've already had a chance to read Lizzie's and David's great posts over the past two weeks. Now it's my turn! My name is Rebekah Cummings, and...