Digital Matters is thrilled to announce the addition of new Faculty and Graduate Fellows to our team for the Fall of 2023. These individuals bring with them a wealth of knowledge and experience that will undoubtedly contribute to the field of digital humanities and we...
We are excited to announce our call for applications for both our Digital Matters Graduate Fellowship and Faculty Grantee opportunities. This grant is designed to support innovative research projects that utilize digital methods and technologies to advance the study of your respective fields. These opportunities...
Briefly describe your project and the challenges, lessons learned, and obstacles overcome in the execution of it. What were the professional, academic, and personal motivations underlying your project? I created an environmental volunteer engagement platform called Climate Hope. On this Airtable platform, environmental organizations in Utah...
Briefly describe your project and the challenges, lessons learned, and obstacles overcome in the execution of it. What were the professional, academic, and personal motivations underlying your project? My digital matters project explored the world of dataveillance, a form of capitalistic surveillance that relies on extracting...
The beginning of the new semester has brought some new faces within the Digital Matters Lab pursuing compelling research. We welcome two new Graduate Student Fellows: Natalie Slater, an MA candidate from the College of Environmental Humanities, and Laurie Larson, an M.Arch candidate in the...
Digital Matters is excited to announce the Spring 2023 Calendar of events we will be hosting in the Marriot Library and Digital Matters Lab. We will be hosting lectures and workshops throughout the current semester by students and faculty who are advancing their respective fields...
Briefly describe your project and the challenges, lessons learned, and obstacles overcome in the execution of it. What were the professional, academic, and personal motivations underlying your project? I’m directing a feature-length documentary called BASELINE: Part 1, and used the Digital Matters fellowship both to move...
Digital Matters at Marriott Library invites students, staff, and faculty with digital scholarship projects to work alongside the ProtoSpace team. This is a chance to be social and generative, to collaborate with peers, and to get feedback from scholars in other disciplines. Feel free to...
Did racial slavery play a meaningful role in the rise of today’s climate crisis? That’s the question driving my current research project, and one that a recent Digital Matters Faculty Fellowship has helped fund. The broader project, tentatively titled “Carbon Conscripts: Slavery and the Origins of...
Briefly describe your project and the challenges, lessons learned, and obstacles overcome in the execution of it. What were the professional, academic, and personal motivations underlying your project? I’m currently working on a digital, comprehensive archive of Womyn’s Community News, a Lesbian newsletter based in Salt...