Author Archives: Miriam

Digital humanities and the allure of the absurd

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Miriam

Over at MediaCommons, I contributed an answer to a survey on the intersections of digital humanities and media studies. I’m reposting it here: It is, of course, absurd to claim you can capture the richness of human experience in machine-readable data. … Continue reading →

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My “day of digital humanities”

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Miriam

If you’re curious about what I do all day (and I actually do get that question a lot), I’ve documented my day here, as part of the Day of Digital Humanities project.

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Creating an Omeka Exhibit

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Miriam

This is the second part of my beginning Omeka workshop. Here’s part one. Please feel free to download this tutorial as a PDF or as a Word document, if you’d like to modify it. Now that you’ve added items to your … Continue reading →

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Up and Running with Omeka.net

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Miriam

Yesterday I had fun teaching a beginning Omeka workshop at THATCamp Feminisms West, a really great event at Scripps College. (It deserves a post of its own, but that will have to wait until I have a little more energy. … Continue reading →

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How to accommodate a breastpumping mom at your event

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Miriam

Breastfeeding has been a pretty damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t experience for me. I’m in an extremely privileged position, breastfeeding-wise — with relatively generous (for the U.S.) maternity leave and a private office with a door — but it’s still been a challenge. … Continue reading →

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Digital humanities and media studies: staging an encounter

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Miriam

This is the introduction I gave to a workshop on media studies and digital humanities at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference in Chicago on March 8, 2013. Fellow participants: Eric Faden, Hannah Goodwin, Jason Mittell, Jason … Continue reading →

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Dora (or: why I’ve been slow returning emails)

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Miriam

Andy and I welcomed our first child, Dora Joan, on December 15, 2012. She’s absolutely amazing. As you might expect, my world has been very much taken up with baby stuff lately. I’ll be on maternity leave until UCLA’s next … Continue reading →

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No Half Measures: Overcoming Common Challenges to Doing Digital Humanities in the Library

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Miriam

I recently published this article in a special issue of the Journal of Library Administration devoted to digital humanities and the library. You can find a non-paywalled copy of the article here. Many thanks to Micah Vandegrift for drafting an … Continue reading →

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Notes on DH and sharing your work

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Miriam

These are notes and links for a talk I’m giving on digital humanities and sharing your work at the University of California, San Diego, on November 5, 2012. DH projects I discuss The Real Face of White Australia, by Kate Bagnall … Continue reading →

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Very basic strategies for interpreting results from the Topic Modeling Tool

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Miriam

Written with Andy Wallace, with methods and ideas borrowed from Zoe Borovsky If you’re reading this, you may know that topic modeling is a method for finding and tracing clusters of words (called “topics” in shorthand) in large bodies of … Continue reading →

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