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...
Greetings! This past year, I had the privilege of being appointed director of Digital Matters and I'd like to take the time to tell you a bit about myself. I'm an associate professor of English here at the U, with stops along the way at...
Hello, world! My name is Elizabeth Callaway, and I am the Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Matters. I research and teach at the intersections of Digital Humanities, New Media Studies, and Environmental Humanities. My PhD is in English, but what I enjoy most is using my humanities...
Monday, April 9, 2018 - 7:00pm Kingsbury Hall | 1395 Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Natural History Museum of Utah Lecture Series Keynote Speaker Neri Oxman is the Founder and Director of Mediated Matter design research group and Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at...