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My name is Miriam Posner, and I coordinate and teach in the Digital Humanities program at the University of California, Los Angeles. You can read more about me here.Archives
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Category Archives: History & Technology
Creating an Omeka Exhibit
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
Posted in Digital Humanities, History & Technology
Tagged history, Omeka, tutorial, tutorials
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Up and Running with Omeka.net
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
Posted in Digital Humanities, History & Technology
Tagged digital history, exhibit, exhibition, exhibits, Omeka, tutorial, tutorials
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Use Automator to combine your research photos into one PDF
By request, these are updated instructions for using your Mac to combine your research photos into a PDF. For more on digital research workflows, see here, here, and here. If you have a Mac, you own a robot! It’s called … Continue reading
Posted in History & Technology, Tools
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The wind in the trees: Regimes of attention
“What the modern movie lacks is beauty,” said D.W. Griffith, melancholy at the end of the a long career, “the beauty of the moving wind in the trees.” At film’s inception, it’s said that viewers didn’t necessarily know where to … Continue reading
Utopianism and its detractors
This year, the American Historical Association’s annual meeting included a THATCamp, which I was happy to attend. Andrew Hartman, a professor at Illinois State University, published an interesting response, which I wanted to take a moment to address. Hartman enjoyed … Continue reading
Why I went (back) to the AHA
Last week I attended the American Historical Association’s annual meeting in Chicago. Although I’ve always thought of myself as a historian, I hadn’t been to an AHA meeting since my first year of grad school in 2004. In part, I … Continue reading
Research tools redux: What I use
I posted recently about tools for managing a research workflow, and one of the points I made is that no set of tools will be right for everyone. I’ve tried and failed to foist my favorite tools on enough people to … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Humanities, History & Technology, Libraries, research, Tools, Writing
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Reading Steve Jobs: labor, race, and growing up in the Bay Area
Not long ago I read Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. Or I should say I listened to it, as an audiobook, on my iPhone. The experience was riveting, though not always pleasant. Like Steve Jobs, I grew up in … Continue reading
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My Ada
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, which celebrates women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics by honoring Ada Lovelace, whom many name the first computer programmer. My Ada is Dora B. Goldstein, or Dody, as everyone called her, who died Sunday. … Continue reading